I realized today, again, how much I miss my kids being kids. I don't get to go to soccer games or meet their teachers, or volunteer at their school. Much of the time I get ignored and so is my unsolicited advice. They are grown and all the possible influence that I might have had is hopefully already ingrained in their good judgment. I bug them to get some attention, but I feel ignored much of the time. I really couldn't wait until they grew up so I wouldn't have to change diapers or punish them (it hurt me too). Now that they are grown, I miss teaching them to ride a bike, shoot a gun, catch a fish, use a camera, and all of the craft projects that we all used to complain about but we (secretly) really enjoyed because it was family time well spent. I watched them grow to the point that they don't need me anymore. I guess I still need them, though.
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Don't hold liberals responsible for their opinion -- they can't help themselves.
A new study has concluded that ideology is not just a social thing, it's built into the DNA, borne along by a gene called DRD4. Tagged "the liberal gene," DRD4 is the first specific bit of human DNA that predisposes people to certain political views, the study's authors claim.
"We hypothesize that individuals with a genetic predisposition toward seeking out new experiences will tend to be more liberal, but only if they are embedded in a social context that provides them with multiple points of view," wrote lead researcher James H. Fowler -- a professor of medical genetics and political science at the University of California, San Diego.
The paper, which appears in the latest edition of The Journal of Politics, focused on 2,000 subjects from The National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. By matching genetic information with maps of each individual's social network, the researchers were able to show that people with a specific variant of the DRD4 gene were more likely to be liberal as adults -- although only if they had an active adolescent social life.
The research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, focused on dopamine -- a neurotransmitter that affects a wide variety of brain processes including control over movement, emotions, and ability to experience pleasure and pain. Previous research identified connections between a variant of this gene and novelty-seeking behavior, a personality trait that numerous studies have shown is linked to political liberalism, the authors say.
[What a crock!!!]
Women are pretty indecisive.
They spend the first twenty years of their active sex life saying, "Is THAT all you think of?"
And the next twenty years of their sex life saying, "Don't you EVER think of that?"
