#RLC2014 Cooking With Gas!

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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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  2. 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.

  7. 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!

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

  13. 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.

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

  17. 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.

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

  25. 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.

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

  27. 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.

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

  36. 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.

  38. 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).

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