It's not who you know

Friends, SNL, the Harvard Grant Study (again), Chris Matthews, LBJ, and a quote I've liked forever. Also: 7 other things worth a click.

Last weekend, comedian John Mulaney hosted SNL. I didn’t see it live, but I heard good things, so I later watched his monologue on YouTube.

One of his bits had to do with the idea that most grown men don’t have a lot of friends. (If they’re lucky, he says, they wind up spending time with the husbands of their wives’ friends.)

Anytime I hear something about grown men and friendship (or lack thereof), I automatically start thinking about the Harvard Grant Study—with its finding that if there’s one key to happiness and success, it’s having “good relationships.”

(Heck, I cited this just yesterday.)