Dog Fights is Still Cool

I saw this on Google news and two thoughts immediately came to mind: 1) I did not need to know this and 2) wait, isn't that second reason a little obvious. Here's the headline:

Barring health issues or the lack of a partner, many Americans remain sexually active well into old age, a survey of 3,005 adults finds.

Once the initial ick factor is gone, think about the second exception they list: lack of a partner. Wouldn't that be stopping people of all ages? I didn't read the article. I preferred to keep the contents of my stomach in place, thank you, but I assume they mean spouse's death or similar situation. Just a weird way of saying that.

I now have another reason to hate Al Gore and An Inconvenient Truth: Amy hates the movie. Again, this follows my policy of accepting things which fit into my preconceived notions, but she had a few reasons for her dislike of "Truth". First, there were charts / graphs which showed that global warming was evil and going to kill us all and sleep with everyone's wives. These charts had no axes. They were lines on a piece of cardboard, essentially. If you've ever taken a science class in your life, I hope the teacher impressed upon you that graphs are COMPLETELY WORTHLESS without well-labeled axes. Things like the time over which the data was recorded is critical. Also, the y-scale can make data look more or less impressive than it should be. A temperature change of 1 degree over 10 years (general global warming amount I hear quoted most often) shown on a scale of about 40 degrees (for example average high temperatures everyday for the ten year period) wouldn't be noticeable to anyone looking at the graph. Showing temperature change from December to August for a single year would show nearly a doubling of temperatures, impressive evidence of "warming" (because it's summer). Also in the movie, it seems, was a cartoon involving a person made of sun and the "greenhouse gang" who prevent the sun from leaving by beating him up. Amy could probably explain it better, but I still don't really get the point of it. I'm just glad that a person with an analytical background has seen the movie and called it what I figured it was: pure horse hockey. She said she had to quit watching it because it was so bad. That's why I liked the MTV review of Sicko back when that movie came out. Kurt Loder, the guy who's been at MTV news since the network premiered, went through all of Michael Moore's points and offered explanations about what he said and didn't say about the various foreign healthcare systems. Unless I'm being tortured, I don't expect I'll ever watch anything by Michael Moore or Al Gore. So people supporting my beliefs without me having to endure the torture are always appreciated.

It seems I'm missing an awesome episode of Dog Fights on the History Channel. More tomorrow.