* Mexicans live a long time.
Isn’t that because they’re shorter on average? Short people’s hearts don’t have to work as hard as tall people’s. Gravity is relentless.
Oh, and a lot a black folks are huge, both vertically and horizontally.
The less there is of someone, the less there is to go wrong.
* Cocaine is “cracked” from its base (cocaine HCL) to yield crack cocaine, which vaporizes at a low temperature and is much more readily absorbed by the lungs and mucosa, therefore giving its inhaler a very direct dose to the brain via the pulmonary veins and carotid artery. It’s a much quicker and more efficient delivery system, so you get a much bigger bang for your buck.
People say it’s discriminatory to distinguish between crack and powder cocaine, but we distinguish distilled from non-distilled beverages. We also distinguish between 50cc scooters and superbikes. Frankly put, one is more dangerous than the other.
Personally, I don’t think cocaine would be a big deal if people only chewed it like the Andean Indians, but I guess that isn’t good enough for some of us.
But I’m sure you’re right about the bankers. You can’t exactly function as a rational decision maker when you’re a cokehead. If bankers abused any drug, it would most likely be alcohol to dial down the pressure at the end of the day. Cocaine is really a pretty worthless drug for creativity and focus. If anything, in small doses it might have some beneficial effect on physical performance, i.e. staying alert and invigorated during a forced march or grueling ball game. But like most drugs, its cognitive benefits are dubious at best.
* Germans and their predilection for nudism. They quoted one older Eastern German woman who’d been baring it all for decades. She said something to the effect that Communism was better because since reunification there were so many fat people it wasn’t fun to get naked any more.
* The quality of your health care system is only the third most important factor in longevity. The first is public health systems, like water and sanitation (that’s the big one). The second is the habits of the populace, i.e. what they eat and how much activity they get. Only after that comes the health care system.
We’re paying for heart surgeries on people who should have gone another twenty years before they had problems because they have bad habits. If the Mexicans had clean air and water they’d probably live longer than we do.
