[rockabyebaby]

bottoms up!

[VRWCmember]

Alcohol makes you smarter, particularly if you are a woman.

So hillary is in danger of losing her title of "most intelligent woman in the world" to Tereza Heinz-Kerry????

[taildragger]

Gosh, I need glasses, for a minute I thought this post said: Al Shaprton has a Brain...

[ko_kyi]

makes sense to me - all those tag-along brain cells die, while the strong ones survive and prosper without all that dead weight.

It's Atlas Shrugged in a glass

[southernnorthcarolina]

For decades now, positive effects (cardio-vascular, reduced instances of some cancers, even mental acuity) of moderate drinking have been reported. The key word, alas, is "moderate," and even worse, some studies define "moderate" in terms that I would define as "minuscule."

Some years ago (I could probably tell you exactly how many years ago, but, well, I drink), I heard a radio news report stating that moderate consumption of alcohol was linked to a lower risk of strokes. The announcer said "...consumption of three or four alcoholic drinks..." I was thinking "All right! Most excellent news!" until he continued the sentence "...per week..."

I was somewhat bummed.

[MississippiMasterpiece]

How many beers equal half a bottle of wine?

[Betis70]

My brother always said that drinking was a sort of "Survival of the Fittest" for brain cells.

Kill off the weak brain cells, and you get smarter! Maybe he was right ...

:-)

[NormB]

It helps me drive too.

[najida]

After last night,
I should be mental razor wire.

I just look like I fell on it first.

[r.d.neck]

Wow!! I must be a freaking (hic!) genius.

[roaddog727]

Absolutely!

Alchohol helps sharpen the brain by killing off the weaker brain cells, thereby clearing the way for stronger synaptic pathway responses to any given stimuli.......

:-)

[mbennett203]

Ah geez...

This is worse than the "frequent masturbation may lead to lowered prostate cancer risk" article Lee of Right-thinking.com posted one time. His comments were pure gold, and applicable here as well:

"Like you needed another reason to do it."

[mbennett203]

[JoeV1]

'course alchohol makes the mind sharper, any fam dool know's that. Thas why I'm so smucken fart...hic.

[Final Authority]

Winston Churchill was a very prolific writer and he used to drink a bottle of champagne every night with his supper and then top it off with a snifter of brandy afterwards with a good cigar. It worked for him. Hemingway was a drunk and it killed him with the help of a significant dose of lead but he wrote quite well. Then there are those who drink and think life on the street can't be beat. I think it can work both ways.

[F16Fighter]

Who really sponsored THIS "study"? The 'London Pub Owners Association'??

[spodefly]

... drinking half a bottle of wine a day can make your brain work better, especially if you are a woman.

I have known this for years. Once women have had at least half a bottle of wine, they realize that I am a charming, witty, and incredibly sexy man and they must have me.

That's smart!

[Billthedrill]

The researchers were unable to test the effect of higher levels of alcohol consumption...

BtD here, reporting for duty...

[Mad Dawgg]

“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy” - Benjamin Franklin

[Junior]

I must be a bloomin' genius!