What is it with us? Welcome to Victimsylvania, the gentle land of sufferers. But at least we know better than to put lil male thingy pictures in public places. We're not stupid, after all...

Ingo Swann, a researcher into psychic phenomena and the like, has a project on his web site dedicated to celebrating and identifying the highest and best qualities of our species, and he remarks on how much time we have spent historically bemoaning human weakness, frailty and other flaws rather than focusing on the positive qualities of the human race. But stories like this make it so easy!

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