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I just had to share this one, for all the times I’ve heard, “Wow, you’re left-handed?”  I’ve heard it so many times that I came up with a snappy comeback:  “All the best people are.”

You’d think it’s something rare, the way people say it like, “Wow, you’ve got a Super Bowl ring?”  About 8% of people—1 in 12—are left-handed, so if you work at a checkout counter or somewhere where people write checks and sign their name, you’re bound to see several every day.  It really shouldn’t seem that weird.

Fun left-hander fact: the Latin word for ‘left’ is sinister.

On a search engine marketing forum I frequent, there was a discussion about a TV documentary about the Internet, which claimed that the Internet used to be this egalitarian place where everyone shared ideas in a spirit of love and understanding, and now it’s dominated by big corporations that only care about the bottom line and probably hate baby seals and the little guy doesn’t have a voice anymore.  (Or words to that effect.) Read more »