That thirty percent again

See, I'm not being judgmental here. I'm probably in the 30 percent myself on some things - like, for instance, Americans Who Like to Eat Snails. But I'm not in the 30 percent who have woken up from sleep sensing a strange presence in the room, or the 34 percent who believe in ghosts, or the only slightly deficient 23 percent who say they've been in the presence of a ghost. (The numbers are from an AP-IPSOS poll, here described at Boston.com.)

Thirty percent just seems to be the background level of mopery. Either that, or all of us are 30 percent nuts; could be.