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#RLC2014 Cooking With Gas!

Posted on | May 29, 2014 | 57 Comments

NEW ORLEANS
The Republican Leadership Conference begins this evening with speeches scheduled by GOP chairman Reince Priebus and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, and the air is thick with excitement. Or maybe the air is thick with humidity, which seems to be somewhere between 99 and 100 percent today. Periodic showers are actually a relief from the general steaminess of the subtropical climate in this Gulf port city. New Orleans is to humidity what Silicon Valley is to computer software.

Meanwhile, in the news — the science is settled!

Men who report watching a lot of pornography tend to have less volume and activity in regions of the brain linked to rewards and motivation, says a new German study.
The study, published in JAMA Psychiatry, can’t say watching porn caused the decrease in brain matter and activity, however.
It’s not clear, for example, whether watching porn leads to brain changes or whether people born with certain brain types watch more porn, said Simone Kühn, the study’s lead author from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin, in an email.
“Unfortunately we cannot answer this question based on the results of the present study,” Kühn said.
But, she noted, the results provide the first evidence for a link between pornography consumption and reductions in brain size and brain activity in response to sexual stimuli.

This explains a lot — Anthony Weiner, for example, is an obvious case of Pornography-Induced Brain Damage Syndrome. Also: Adulterous sexting — “chexting,” cheating by texting — destroys marriages.

Don’t know if Phil Robertson will talk about this stuff during his RLC speech, but I’m pretty sure he’s against it.




 

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57 Responses to “#RLC2014 Cooking With Gas!”

  1. PubliusNV
    May 29th, 2014 @ 1:34 pm

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  2. commonpatriot
    May 29th, 2014 @ 1:40 pm

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  3. MrEvilMatt
    May 29th, 2014 @ 1:40 pm

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    May 29th, 2014 @ 1:40 pm

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  9. rsmccain
    May 29th, 2014 @ 1:46 pm

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  10. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 29th, 2014 @ 1:47 pm

    I look forward to your reports. I have to say, if the GOP is good with having a mini convention in New Orleans, it shouldn’t be to freaked out about going to Las Vegas.

  11. RivoliRevue
    May 29th, 2014 @ 1:48 pm

    RT @rsmccain: #RLC2014 NEW ORLEANS: “The air is thick with excitement. Or maybe the air is thick with humidity …” http://t.co/Woxx60c9Yn …

  12. Dana
    May 29th, 2014 @ 1:54 pm

    What? Our host is left-handed, just like Barack Hussein Obama? There’s a conspiracy here, somewhere!

  13. Paul H. Lemmen
    May 29th, 2014 @ 2:00 pm

    Put on a hat dammit! You’ll blind everyone!

  14. Cactus Ed
    May 29th, 2014 @ 2:15 pm

    Do you suppose that if he put on a fake wig, that would compensate?

  15. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 29th, 2014 @ 2:36 pm

    Given your proximity to all the drag queens of Bourbon Street, Ru Paul is in a battle over the use of the worlds “Tranny” and “She-Male” http://www.salon.com/2014/05/27/rupauls_aggressive_tirade_in_defense_of_the_term_tranny/ Pass the popcorn!

  16. M. Thompson
    May 29th, 2014 @ 2:54 pm

    Sounds like a bit more fun than the 2014 Minnesota Republican Convention, which is not being held at a pleasant lake resort, but in Rochester.

    You’d think they’d try!

  17. Dana
    May 29th, 2014 @ 3:00 pm

    Indoors?

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  19. Quartermaster
    May 29th, 2014 @ 3:30 pm

    That would explain quite a bit. The Romans called south paws sinister, or something.

  20. Quartermaster
    May 29th, 2014 @ 3:31 pm

    Given that MN is a blue state, it’s prolly led to brain damage among the members of the state committee.

  21. Quartermaster
    May 29th, 2014 @ 3:32 pm

    Flourescent lighting will create a powerful glare on that bare pate.

  22. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 29th, 2014 @ 4:12 pm

    There are also people who are ambidextrous (DaVinci was ambidextrous) and people who are ambilevous (awkward with either hand). Not saying RSM falls in either of those camps, but he could.

  23. CrustyB
    May 29th, 2014 @ 4:19 pm

    That podium says Republican Leadership on the sign behind it. Republican Leadership? What is that?

  24. Peter B
    May 29th, 2014 @ 4:26 pm

    The conference sounds great. But isn’t the next topic for research “Rule 5 and atrophy of pleasure/reward centers?”

  25. Zohydro
    May 29th, 2014 @ 4:33 pm

    Shouldn’t this post be titled “Cooking with Peanut Oil!”?

  26. Paul H. Lemmen
    May 29th, 2014 @ 4:49 pm

    Just look at the light shining off that extended forehead!
    Besides, all hard-bitten editors/reporters wear a fedora at all times, a Marlboro hanging from the corner of their mouth and a cup of whiskey-laced coffee at their elbow.

  27. Cactus Ed
    May 29th, 2014 @ 4:55 pm

    Hath no fury like a Tranny scorned.

  28. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 29th, 2014 @ 4:59 pm

    Never get in a fight with a Drag Queen (or so I have been told).

  29. Fudge
    May 29th, 2014 @ 5:17 pm

    The words republican and leadership do not belong in the same sentence. The gop is dead to me.

  30. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 29th, 2014 @ 5:19 pm

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-0YDK54magdw/U4dhwvLTHMI/AAAAAAAAiFE/jh_nKu-AbB0/s1600/171-0826085036-Seinfeld-shrinkage-george-costanza.jpg Talking about putting on a hat: Stop looking at Barack Obama’s economy!

    Shrinkage!

  31. thatMrGguy
    May 29th, 2014 @ 6:36 pm

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  32. Bob Belvedere
    May 29th, 2014 @ 6:46 pm

    Nostalgia?

  33. Bob Belvedere
    May 29th, 2014 @ 6:48 pm

    Given up the fedora, McCain?

    You always used to wear it indoors and out. Looking for ‘respectability’, are we?…[sigh]…another one lost.

  34. Evi L. Bloggerlady
    May 29th, 2014 @ 7:01 pm

    Unless you are in the sun, a fedora is not the best thing to wear in 99% humidity (although I assume the hotel has decent A/C).

  35. MichaelAdams
    May 29th, 2014 @ 7:17 pm

    But, but, so was George W Bush, (whom may God save.) Yes, he annoyed me a lot, but he did what he could, when he could, and more than most of us expected, when we were attacked.He, and I, are left handed.

  36. Dianna Deeley
    May 29th, 2014 @ 10:51 pm

    I did not know that you are left-handed. Though it may explain my affinity for your writing.

  37. Dianna Deeley
    May 29th, 2014 @ 10:56 pm

    I always wonder about the heroic labor of AC in humid climates. Out here, it actually does kick on and do some good. In Tennessee, though it ran all the time, my brother’s house just seemed a little less hot and damp than outside.

  38. Bob Belvedere
    May 29th, 2014 @ 11:23 pm

    Spawns Of The Devil!

  39. Zohydro
    May 29th, 2014 @ 11:26 pm

    Levophobe!

  40. HisFishHawk
    May 30th, 2014 @ 1:46 am

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  41. Adjoran
    May 30th, 2014 @ 3:17 am

    Never stopped him before.

    But late May in Nawlins tends to weigh against the wearing of headgear.

  42. Adjoran
    May 30th, 2014 @ 3:19 am

    There is some psychology to it, too. When it’s 90 degrees and 95% humidity outdoors, you don’t feel like overdressing indoors.

  43. K-Bob
    May 30th, 2014 @ 3:46 am

    There’s room for one more under this wig:

    http://thisistwitchy.files.wordpress.com/2014/05/screen-shot-2014-05-29-at-8-56-22-am.png?w=300

  44. K-Bob
    May 30th, 2014 @ 3:49 am

    Polluting whiskey is a bad thing.

  45. K-Bob
    May 30th, 2014 @ 3:51 am

    Mirror writing always brings in the rubes.

    Next he’ll do card tricks.

  46. K-Bob
    May 30th, 2014 @ 3:53 am

    Is that an “I Like Ike” button?

    The first few times I saw the #RLC2014 thing go by my eyeballs today, I assumed it was another draft standard at W3 or IEEE or something.

  47. guinspen
    May 30th, 2014 @ 7:42 am

    Reince Priebus?

    Cooking with gasbag.

  48. Paul H. Lemmen
    May 30th, 2014 @ 7:53 am

    So is screwing with coffee generally. However considering the usual coffee/whiskey ratio, it is an abomination to neither! (fill cup with whiskey, nod at coffee pot).

  49. richard mcenroe
    May 30th, 2014 @ 9:50 am

    Stacy owns a necktie?!

  50. richard mcenroe
    May 30th, 2014 @ 9:52 am

    I heard that Da Vinci guy could go both ways…