Oh, Just Curl Up in Front Of a Nice, Warm Computer

Global warming or no global warming, winter soon wears out its welcome. Polling by ORC International finds 39 percent of Americans saying their energy level decreases during the winter. That includes 7 percent of men and 11 percent of women who said it falls off “a lot.” On the other hand, 25 percent of respondents claimed their energy level rises during the winter, including 11 percent for whom it does so “a lot.” In a zoological flight of fancy, 53 percent of respondents said they’d like to be a southbound bird for the winter, versus 22 percent who’d rather frolic in the snow as a penguin and 21 percent who’d prefer to doze through the season as a grizzly bear.