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It appears that a Danish psychologist has noticed a trend I have stumbled upon. The members of society with lower intelligence and/or capability are the ones having more children while the more capable and/or intelligent are having fewer children.

I find it interesting that in universities, students are informed about the state of global overpopulation and encouraged to have fewer children but there is no system to inform and encourage others in this regard. While the more capable/intelligent (college graduates [hopefully graduates anyway]) are being pushed to have fewer children, those of less capability are dropping children right and left.

Certainly, there is an environmental component to intelligence/capability, but as with (afaik) everything else, there is also a genetic component. Those who would give the next generation greater intelligence/capability should be encouraged to have children not discouraged. The opposite should be true for the opposite.

Of course college graduate status is not the only, or necessarily best, criterion to gauge intelligence/capability from, but it's a good start. University educated people already have fewer children than those not university educated. Do we really need to dissuade their childbearing further?

The people with children should be the ones who will do the best with them, not the ones who have 8 children with no support system and don't supervise them among other things.

I saw a perfect example of people like this on Oprah (it was late at night and I just didn't change the channel after whatever late night show was on before). This suburban family (3 kids) somehow got sent to one of the countries in Africa to live with a native group for some period of time. These people were morons.

The woman (the typically fat American suburban housewife) said something like the hut they were in was the size of her closet and that the daily existence was hard work with complete surprise.

The man described the slaughtering of a goat as "graphic" and "hard" I believe. The hard bit I've no idea what he meant since he wasn't participating in the slaughter in any way. These people also did such a great job raising kids.

The oldest, a girl, seemed to be constantly crying. She said something about how people shouldn't have to kill things to eat after seeing the goat's slaughter. The middle child, a boy, said something like he thought we'd prograssed farther as humans than to slaughter animals for food and had the good sense to throw a dog's bowl into the only source of drinking water for the community. The only saving grace of the family was the youngest boy who, after a short transition period, adapted readily to the community and voiced no complaint until having to leave. This child may have learned something and should be taken away from those parents before they can damage him.

Those two parents, and others like them, should not have children. However, it is people just like them that are having the vast majority of the children and polluting the next generation. This is just one of the reasons why I wholeheartedly endorse the ideas of Professor Nyborg and hope his, and my, ideas will gain converts.

The subject says it all.

I got back from a Gipsy Kings show about 12 hours ago, and all I have to say is it was amazingly cool. The guitar playing from all seven guitarists (four of them lefties[for the trivia inclined]) and vocalizing were superb.

As an added bonus, I met a very attractive Bosnian girl there, and the venue was filled with droves of beautiful women.

I would recommend taking in a Gipsy Kings show to all of the non-existant readers of this entry.

Preface:
        I attend a University that has a horrible parking situation. Consequently, the campus shuttles are overfilled at certain times of the day. A few days ago I had the luck of arriving at a particular parking lot early enough to get a seat and observe those who were not so lucky. I was rather irritable at the time, and while observing those who were standing I had an interesting thought.

Fat people are inconsiderate. Two or more regular sized people could have fit on the shuttle in the space that one fat person occupied. That is at least one more person who could have made it to class on time. There was also the side thought that the extra demand for food caused by the amount of food they consume raises the price of food for me.

This does not apply to those who are slightly overweight. It, likewise, does not apply to those with a legitimate medical condition (i.e. hypothyroidism) that bring about such a state.

I will probably end up deleting this before too long as it is just a thought that flashed across my mind on an irritable morning.

Well, look at this. Here is a new toy for me to play with.
Not very good for my first posting, but at least now I'll have a place to complain to the world about the things that annoy me.