Swedish researchers have found a correlation between intelligence and alcohol consumption in young males, with dumber young men more likely to indulge in heavy drinking and binge drinking, CBS News reports. According to this study, “a young adult male’s risk of heavy drinking increases [...]
Archive for March, 2015
March 10th, 2015 - 7:33 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Swedish researchers confirm that drunken frat boys are stupid
March 10th, 2015 - 6:56 pm § in Misc.
Meet Senator Loose Cannon
Sen. Tom Cotton, the instigator and author of that outrageously irresponsible (and arguably illegal) letter to Iran aimed at undermining the official foreign policy of the United States of America, is one of the youngest and least experienced members of Congress. He served only one term in the House[...]
March 10th, 2015 - 4:23 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Legislature okays WSU med school
Nearly 100 years ago, in 1917, the Washington legislature divvied up academic responsibilities between the University of Washington and Washington State University. The UW got law, medicine, forestry, library sciences, and fisheries; WSU got agriculture, agricultural economics, and veterinary medi[...]
March 10th, 2015 - 3:06 pm § in Politics
Meet a Republican intellectual
This is what passes for deep reflective thought among the Republican intelligentsia nowadays. Michael Willette is, believe it or not, an actual Republican state senator in Maine. (Click here for source.) [...]
March 10th, 2015 - 2:49 pm § in Misc.
Fox pundits whine about Obama hogging Selma limelight
“This morning on Fox & Friends the Kurvy Kouch Potatoes devoted the whole of their Selma segment to complaining about a photo that appeared in the New York Times. Later, the ladies of ‘Outnumbered’ did the same thing. The photo in question was of President Obama walking arm-in[...]
March 10th, 2015 - 9:23 am § in America
Jewish Restaurant Serves Trafe to Multiethnics in South Carolina!
“Hyman’s was the friendliest, most ecumenical, and most hopping business imaginable, here on a rainy Monday night in Charleston, South Carolina.” Regular readers on THE Ave know that I am very critical of South Carolina for its persistent racism. celebration of the Confederacy and be[...]
Photography by The Scot
Photographic Memory I’ve got to that stage of my life where I start to forget things and begin to panic I have that memory-wasting disease I can never remember the name of (See what I mean?). I have also been in the predicament of trying to determine whether the image I hold in my [&h[...]