Men seldom make passes/At girls who wear glasses.

Marginal Revolution points to this article, which claims that rising rates of myopia are the result of nurture, not nature. For those of you who wish to wear spectacles, the desired vision impairment is just a few more years of staring at computer screens away. My vision has not declined since beginning blogging, or even since starting law school (although my optometrist claims that a multiple diopter change during law school is common). I attribute this to getting it over with early by destroying my eyes through overreading by the tender age of eight. They're probably completely egg-shaped by now.