The original study included more than 1,000 people who'd been born in the town of Dunedin, New Zealand. Their IQ was tested at ages 13 and 38, and they were asked about marijuana use periodically between those ages.
Researchers at Duke University and elsewhere found that participants who'd reported becoming dependent on pot by age 18 showed a drop in IQ score between ages 13 and 38. The findings suggest pot is harmful to the adolescent brain.
A study in Oslo, Norway indicated the IQ trend might have nothing to do with pot. Rather, it may have emerged from differences among the study participants in socioeconomic status, which involves factors like income, education and occupation.
Do I have this correct? Over 1,000 people in Dunedin, New Zealand had IQ tests twenty five years apart. Those that said they smoked reefer had lower scores. So, smoking pot will make you stupid. A different study when factoring income, education, occupation, and home environment claims the same results. So it's not marijuana but being poor and uneducated that lowers intelligence.
After twenty five years and several million dollars there is still no definitive answer to the question, is pot smoking harmful? However, all are in agreement, adults under the influence of grass, find Fruit Loops palatable and on occasion will attempt making s'mores over an electric stove.
Last night we were talking about the last sit-com we watched. As best we could remember it was "The Simpsons" a few years ago. We watch a few cop shows, movies, "The West Wing" on Netflix. I watch a few offerings on the premium stations and that's about it. We have one television in our house. Now, you may be asking yourself what's the point here? Well, I'll tell you.
Rose, will be seventy two this April. He is balding and overweight. He is engaged to a thirty nine year old former Playboy Playmate who's breasts are larger than his belly. She has two children from a former husband. A 'boy crazy' girl of fourteen and a 'video game junkie' boy of eleven. You can imagine the ensuing hijinks when their families are blended after the wedding.
He has four children from two previous marriages, two from each. It seems his procreation's are as regular as his hitting. The two from his first are thirty nine and thirty four. The two from his second are twenty nine and twenty four.
So, now you have it, a brand new 'reality' show from The Learning Channel. I think this show is a shameful cry for attention. It's a vehicle to talk about how sorry he is, how he never bet baseball. It's a plea to lift his ban and induct him to the Hall of Fame before he goes to the great ballpark in the sky, or perchance, Iowa.
I will not be reading the U.S Anti-Doping Agency report on Lance Armstrong. It accuses him of masterminding a long running doping scheme in no less than 1,000 pages.
I would be remiss if I ignored the this news. Oprah told Matt that she interviewed Lance and he was "forthcoming" when asked about the doping allegations that followed him closer than a bicycle. Those interested in such things can watch the Oprah-Lance interviews over two nights this week.
Now, I have my opinion and I'll share it with you. Old joke, Why are opinions and hemorrhoids alike? Because sooner or later a great majority of assholes are going to have them. I've never followed cycling. I just don't care about it. Consequently, I don't care about the Armstrong doping issues.
In 1997 Lance Armstrong founded Livestrong, a charity to combat cancer. Since it's inception it's raised $470 million dollars with 81% of the funds going to support programs and cancer survivors. In 2011 the charity raised just over $35 million dollars.
Armstrong and his charity have parted ways. He built Livestrong on the reputation of clean living and his own fight with cancer. Now, because he has finally admitted to taking performance enhancing drugs he will be striped of his victories, sued to return prize and endorsement money. He will now have to pay the piper for his actions. Yesterday a friend posted on FaceBook, Karma is like a rubber band, you can only stretch it so far until it breaks and snaps back to hit you in the face.
Karma? Maybe. Lance Armstrong will face a long road paved with problems. But, so will everyone dealing with cancer. His 'cheating' helped promote his foundation because he was a winner. And that helped raise all that money. At least something good came out of it and that can't be taken away.
Police in Scrotell, Oklahoma answered a domestic disturbance call that escalated later that evening. Late Sunday afternoon neighbors called local law enforcement to report what sounded like a loud argument. Officers were dispatched to the home of Rutta and Alfred Couness and discovered the husband and wife in the midst of a physical and verbal altercation. Shards of broken glass and what appeared to be a large salt and pepper shaker collection were scattered throughout the house.
During basic questioning Rutta admitted to hitting her husband over the head with a medium sized non stick frying pan. "He just wouldn't shut the Hell up about the stupid Ostrich," she said. Apparently, the couple had been drinking and alcohol fueled the dispute. "He kept it up until I couldn't take it any more, she added. How many times am I gonna have to tell him the Emu is the one with three toes." Officers were able to defuse the situation and departed the residence after a short time.
Later that day while at a local bar and restaurant, the disagreement began again, only to escalate from the flightless birds to food. A bar patron who asked not to be identified (my wife thinks I'm at an AA meeting) said, "They were eating quietly when Al started yelling, "It's pork you dumb bitch, the other white meat is pork, not chicken." She picked up her fork and stabbed him in the chest, just like that, and it went from there."
The husband and wife were charged with attempted murder, public intoxication, willful destruction of public property, and disturbing the peace.
Pork, it's not Kosher but it is, the other white meat.
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