I have been looking for a news item worthy of this thread for many a month. I think I just found it.
This "Psychologist" has made an earth shaking discovery. Money CAN but happiness after all. (Like us poor penniless buggers couldn't have told him that without all that research

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061126/ap_on_.../be_happy_moneyQUOTE
"There is overwhelming evidence that money buys happiness," said economist Andrew Oswald of the University of Warwick in England.
Hey! No shit tonto. Really? wow!