Home Turf

You do not have to be a sports fan to appreciate this:

Home Team Advantage . Scientists have figured out how to measure the testosterone in male players before and after playing games on their home turf as opposed to on the road. Their conclusion: Men play much better at home because they are much like dogs defending their territory!

This news competes with last week's big science story that women respond to the smell of men's sweat by becoming measurably aroused.

As if all of this were not enough for a curious mind, did you see that chimpanzees apparently had their own Stone Age?

It's almost too much for someone who believes humans are a superior species to handle. After all, the combined weight of ants on earth is greater than the combined weight of all of us humans. How, you ask, can that possibly be?

So many disappointments for the king (and queen) of beasts. Every guy who fancies himself the great seducer probably only benefited from forgetting to take a shower, or shave (another turn-on women cannot help but respond to is unshaved whiskers.)

Now, I do have to except most women from this analysis, but only because as one of my female friends told me recently, "It's probably easier for me to 'get lucky' -- if I wanted to -- than it is for you men."

Of course, she is right, and as every woman except those with the dimmest lights in their attic eventually figure out, it isn't all that hard to get laid, at any age, if that's what you want.

There is, however, one piece of sweetly hopeful news among the recent discoveries flooding our websites for that slender slice of romanticism that resides inside our battered hearts. You may have missed it, but that skeleton couple discovered in an eternally loving embrace were quite near the place where Shakespeare set his classic story, Romeo and Juliet.

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