{"id":4403,"date":"2010-04-08T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=4403"},"modified":"2010-04-08T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T16:03:22","slug":"too-clever-for-my-own-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/4403","title":{"rendered":"Too Clever For My Own Good&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This today from The London Telegraph&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/health\/women_shealth\/7549959\/Cleverest-women-are-the-heaviest-drinkers.html\"><strong>Cleverest women are the heaviest drinkers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Women who went to university consume more alcohol than their  less-highly-educated counterparts, a major study has found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You don&#8217;t say&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/large27.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4404\" title=\"large27\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/large27-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/large27-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/large27.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RachelMaddow2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4405\" title=\"RachelMaddow2\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RachelMaddow2-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RachelMaddow2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/RachelMaddow2.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I have often wondered about the relationship of intelligence to recreational drug use&#8230;and let&#8217;s be serious here, alcohol and tobacco are merely legal ones. \u00a0 Sherlock Holmes did cocaine because his mind couldn&#8217;t stand being without a problem to solve. \u00a0 \u00a0 I&#8217;ll go down to my household bar and humidor whenever Mr. Logical&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/left_brain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4406\" title=\"left_brain\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/left_brain-106x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"106\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;this guy, if you&#8217;ve been reading <a href=\"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/acos\/acos-main.htm\"><em>A Coming Out Story<\/em><\/a>, becomes too much to deal with.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The only cocktail I know how to reliably mix is the <a href=\"http:\/\/\">&#8220;Blue Glow-tini&#8221;<\/a> I first had at the Disney World Hollywood Studios 50s Prime Time Cafe&#8217;. \u00a0 \u00a0 I loved it so much I googled the recipe the instant I got home. \u00a0 On thing I love about watching Rachel Maddow is her occasional Cocktail spot. \u00a0 One of these days it&#8217;s going to motivate me into fixing up the art room bar a little nicer. \u00a0 Add a bar sink and under the bar fridge and ice machine. \u00a0 The disadvantage of having a brain is the world makes you want to drink, but at least having a brain lets you do it decently.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This today from The London Telegraph&#8230; Cleverest women are the heaviest drinkers Women who went to university consume more alcohol than their less-highly-educated counterparts, a major study has found. You don&#8217;t say&#8230; I have often wondered about the relationship of intelligence to recreational drug use&#8230;and let&#8217;s be serious here, alcohol and tobacco are merely legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[112,55],"class_list":["post-4403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-geek-chronicles","tag-this-and-that"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}