I recently saw a news report that stated that some research institution somewhere had "discovered" that there may be some advantages to drinking a beer early in the morning. Personally I have to wonder at the wisdom of this type of reporting. Sure, most people will find it funny and forget about it 10 seconds later, but what about the people that don't?
I'm sure that there is some Joe-schmo out there in his stained wife-beater t-shirt who just got the greatest news of his life. Normally he didn't start drinking until lunch but now, he'll be more than toasted by 11am.
Sometimes all people need is an excuse to rationalize anything. As long as someone out there says it's good, then they don't care. The fictional committee of "they" is a great example of this. How many times have you heard someone tell you that "they" say that this or that is really good for you, and then you press them as to who "they" really are, and they have no idea.
I just think it's funny that if "the great and all knowing committee of They", as I like to call them, gives you the go ahead, then you can go right ahead and chuck your own common sense out the door and do whatever you want.
Of course in this day and age, it's very hard to separate truth from fiction anyway, which makes it very hard to ever know if anything you hear or read is actually true. I'm getting the point where I just assume that what I hear or read is likely, but not necessarily set in stone. I mean, at one point, everyone on earth would have called you an idiot if you told them that the Earth was round.
Well it's like "they" say, you can't pick'em all
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