Re: No Second Childhood for Me!

I read some version of this a while ago and have been pushing my intake ever since. Did you see this?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/03/study-pundits-wrong-most-_n_856886.html I can't vouch for the method, but the results make sense. It is vindicating but hardly consoling that Krugman comes out on top, since he thinks we're going to hell in a hand-basket, but my greater pleasure is that Friedman is down near the bottom. Even if he were predicting the weather, I would find his portentousness unbearable. 

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 11:15 AM, Roy Griffin <roygg9@yahoo.com> wrote:

Although some in my real-time reference group are probably willing to suggest I
have merely prolonged my first one.

Every great once in a while, somebody drags out a study that shows coffee is bad

for you.  It is invariably later contradicted by a later study.

I had heard the below before, but this is icing on the cake.  I'm down to about
five or six a day.   All my habits, good and bad, seem to have weakened their
grip.  I hope I'm drinking enough.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110504095630.htm

R.

P.S.  I wonder if anybody has checked the Alzheimer rates in Brazil.   I read
once that there folks drink an average of about 15 cups per day.

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No Second Childhood for Me!

Although some in my real-time reference group are probably willing to suggest I
have merely prolonged my first one.

Every great once in a while, somebody drags out a study that shows coffee is bad

for you. It is invariably later contradicted by a later study.

I had heard the below before, but this is icing on the cake. I'm down to about
five or six a day. All my habits, good and bad, seem to have weakened their
grip. I hope I'm drinking enough.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110504095630.htm

R.

P.S. I wonder if anybody has checked the Alzheimer rates in Brazil. I read
once that there folks drink an average of about 15 cups per day.

http://gg9-tto.blogspot.com/

Daily Show & Colbert Report & other

Old news, but in case anybody missed it, Stewart & Colbert were side-splittingly
funny last night on the subject of how the announcement of bin Laden's demise
was announced.

Colbert referenced Seth Meyer's joke at the White House Press dinner about bin
Laden hosting a late night talk show on C-span and Obama laughing just a tad too
hard...well--I guess you had to have been there, but the visual cracked me up.

On another note, Chris Matthews was interviewing a biographer of Obama's mother
& the biographer remarked that Obama lived in Java from the ages of 6 YO to 10
YO and that she thought that could be the source of Obama's notorious
self-control. She also said that in that regard some Indonesians had told her
that it was an Indonesian character trait--that is, it was very important to
maintain control of one's emotions at all times.

That sounds like something that could be true--although I did not know that was
supposed to be characteristic of Indonesians until the biographer remarked upon
it.

My prejudice is usually to side with the more social-based explanation for
somebody's personality, but I feel contrarian about that particular
explanation. Until people--probably a lot of people--write in-depth
biographies and analyses of Obama's background, that seems like something
unknowable--maybe even after they do.

I'm allowing myself to fall into the preoccupations of the hagiographers
regarding Obama, so I can't complain too much about how MSNBC (excepting Joe
Scarborough, but who cares?) is practically ready to canonize the guy. But I
think I will complain in a few days if the spell doesn't lift a bit.

Wasn't Kate's dress beautiful?

R.

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