Heh, alright already!
>The short answer is that
>ideas that are intuitively pleasing take advantage of the way our brains
>adapted in prehistoric times to memes that supported replication of
>their hosts's DNA. Unfortunately, in modern society this results in many
>pathological behaviors and tendencies such as overvaluing longshots,
>being overafraid of perceived dangers, and preferring simplistic
>explanations such as astrology to complicated but more accurate or
>useful ones.
Abso-friggin-lutely. :-]
Dan