A connection between lots of drinking and lots of sexual activity? No way!

So I thought that I would share two things that I heard on the way to school this morning on the local college radio, 89.1 “The Wood.” It’s the only St. Louis station that plays any rock that is outside the mainstream, and even then they don’t do such a hot job. The good thing about them is that they have no commercials and they don’t talk too much. Anyway, to the two things that I heard on their short news section.

First, a study came out yesterday that was done at Washington University that says that we now know that there is a connection, a “strong” connection, between those who have a high level of drinking and those who have a high level of sexual activity. It therefore said that if you are someone who is given to drinking you ought to go get yourself checked out for STD’s. Now, personally, I always wondered what universities do with all of the money that they get from charging students 40 grand a year (or something like that; I don’t really know how much it costs to go there), but now we know. They do studies to tell us stuff that we know already. Well, ok, I’m sure they do loads of other good studies, but common! The local bum could have told us that!

Second, and this is a lot more positive, the St Louis government will be taking initiative in the city to promote the National Fatherhood Initiative. This is an initiative to promote the importance of Fathers in the development of families and particularly the health of their children. Good job St Louis.