A recent report by two economics professors published in the journal “Science” asked over one million people how happy they were with the state they were living in.

Louisiana ranked number 1 as the happiest state. Several of the poorest states; Mississippi, South Carolina and Alabama ranked in the top ten.

Everyone from the south that filled out the survey said they were “happy as pigs in shit.”

High Unemployment, High Foreclosures, Etc. Etc. Etc. What’s wrong with these professors?

They should be presented with the Deliverance Award.

The BELFAST TELEGRAPH has reported that a happily married United Kingdom couple Caroline and Steve Cartwright really pissed off their neighbors, and it wasn’t because of some untrimmed bushes or filthy trash bins. The neighbors complained that Caroline’s obnoxiously loud noises during sex in her own house drowned out nearby televisions, people taking there children to school complained and even the postman objected.

Caroline was first hit with a noise abatement notice ordering her to quiet down in the bedroom. Almost immediately after it was imposed she broke the abatement and then failed in an appeal to have it overturned. The abatement she said breached her human rights.

The judge said: "It was intrusive and constituted a nuisance of a very disturbing nature. It was compounded by the duration and frequency, it went on for hours at a time and every night.” Caroline was placed on 4 year noise probation which she quickly violated on various occasions. And then she was sentenced to 8 weeks in prison. For getting laid???

But why only Caroline? Isn’t Steve also partially responsible for making her scream?

Go Steve! Go! You Da Man!

I think she should appeal on religious grounds. She was probably screaming, oh God! oh God! oh God!

And today as Japanese officials ordered an inquiry into problems with the brakes on the 2010 Prius, Toyota’s stock price dropped another 5 percent in early trading.

In other news: As Toyota stocks dropped, the engineering firm of B. J. Tinker and Sons has made a substantial offer to buy out Toyota.

Toyota has refused to talk about the buyout because they’re fearful that the new company name might be detrimental to sales.

I don’t have to tell you the name do I?