Some News for the Morning

A new study revealed that coed dorms are the awesomest place ever! Binge drinking was 2.5 times more likely (42% versus 18%); sex was more likely; and the watching of pornography increased. I am surprised this would come as a shock to anyone, especially the researchers or university administration. I lived in a coed dorm. It was great. Girls and boys intermingled all the time. Perhaps what exacerbated everything was the winter, which would frequently lock us in for days at a time, with nothing to do but interact. The solution? More global warming. Let's get the winters shortened so college kids stop drinking and having sex!

You may be eating cloned beef soon. Evidently, they eat less and produce more. Sounds too good to be true? Well, we'll just wait and see what happens next.

In a strange irony, something only Marx's "false consciousness" could explain, white women love the GOP (as do poor white people!). A group that just ended its insurance covering abortions, that has a guy like Rush Limbaugh who has ridiculed and demonized feminism, and a group with (I believe) 2 women senators and 12 house of representatives draws women. I think all the talk about security mixed with calling democrats pansies, pussies, and wusses pumps some women up. I call it the Neanderthal model.

I have long said I call out both political parties, though any reader would probably recognize my vehement opposition to the GOP thus far. Well, here you go conservatives: Robert Byrd is what is wrong with the Senate. He is 91 frickin years old!! I hated when they let Strom Thurmund go till he was 100, and I hate it now. Not that older people cannot be smart, functional, and even sharp; but, really, 56 years of governing? My grandmother is in her mid-80's and still has her faculties. But, I wouldn't trust her to vote on serious legislation for the rest of the country. Seriously. Term limits, no. Age maximums, yes. And don't accuse me of ageism because no one has a problem with a minimum age limit on entrance to the Senate or Presidency? So, why can't we just say 85 or 80, or even 90 is the max?