A farmer from Bulgaria, Mihail Janko, is convinced that his goat has a very special talent: it can discern a person's character. Janko claims that he can put pictures of people in front of the goat and the goat will show, by his behavior, whether the person in the picture is of good or bad character. Evidently, the goat head-butts pictures of “unpleasant people," but eats the pictures of pleasant people. Janko has even relied on the goat's special talent to help him choose boyfriends for his four daughters. (1) Some of you parents would like to buy his goat, I know.

Don't you wish sometimes that you had a gift for discernment like this goat has? Wouldn't it make life so much easier if we could weed through bad and good people without any effort? You may find this hard to believe, but acco…