On Wed, 15 Oct 2008, B. wrote:
> [Personally, I found this to be depressing news. -B.]
If it cheers you up any, Nicholson Baker (in the novel _Mezzanine_) put forth the theory of the Darwinian effect of alcohol on the brain: that it's only the weakest brain cells that get killed, so actually it pares away your stupidity :o)
Michael