Four-year-old Anthony Smith of Salem, New Hampshire is completely deaf in his right ear, and needs a hearing aid for his left ear.  

But he told his mother he didn’t want to wear the hearing aid anymore, because, quote, “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.”

So his mother emailed Marvel Comics looking for help . . . and they went ABOVE and BEYOND.        

First they pointed out that Hawkeye, one of the Avengers, lost 80% of his hearing, and wears hearing aids.   

Then they had two artists create a NEW superhero, just for Anthony.  His name is Blue Ear, which is Anthony’s nickname for his hearing aid.  And Blue Ear wears one while he fights crime.

(Fox Boston)

I FINALLY have proof that people who BURN BOOKS are idiots. I’ve always KNOWN they were morons, but now I’ve found their poster child.

On Tuesday night, 25-year-old Joshua Hughes of Lincoln, Nebraska hid inside a library at the University of Nebraska, so he could burn books after it closed at 11:00 P.M.

Joshua set three books on fire, then tried to leave . . . but realized he was locked in. The smoke was filling up the room, and he was trapped. So . . . he had to call 911 and ask them to RESCUE HIM from the book fire he’d started.

They came and saved him, and he was arrested for arson. Unfortunately, the police chief told reporters he didn’t know WHICH books Joshua wanted to burn.

But after the arrest, Joshua asked if he could call GEORGE W. BUSH, because he wanted his favorite president to know he was in trouble.

The library says other than the three books he burned, there was no other major damage.

(Lincoln Journal Star)

“Smithsonian Magazine” dug up a 1924 issue of a magazine called “Science and Invention”, and found a four-item LOVE TEST. It was supposed to scientifically predict whether a marriage would succeed or fail.

Could YOU pass? Here are the four parts of the test . . .

#1.) Are you deeply physically attracted? The author says that physical attraction is THE most important element for a marriage. So he’d test whether a couple got shortness of breath or a fast heartbeat when they looked at each other.

#2.) How sympathetic are you? In this test, each person would watch the other one go through something mildly traumatic, like giving blood. And they’d be tested on whether they had strong physical reactions to seeing the other person in pain.

#3.) Can you deal with each other’s body odor? This is great . . . the author says he believes more marriages are destroyed by BAD BODY ODOR than any other reason.

In this test, each person was put in a tight, enclosed capsule, and a hose would pump the scent from the other person’s capsule RIGHT into their noses. If they could handle that, they were a good couple.

#4.) Do you balance each other out in stressful situations? For this test, the author would surprise the couple by firing a gun into the air. He wanted to make sure one person had a more nervous reaction than the other, to show balance.

And that’s it. If you have a deep physical attraction, you feel each other’s pain, you don’t mind each other’s smell, and you do a good job balancing each other out under stress, you’ve passed a 1920s marriage test.

(Smithsonian)