Why does he even bother?

Rush commented on a story today, and I really don't understand why he bothered. It was about people falling in love, and the line Rush repeated was: "One-fifth of a second and you could lose half of what you own."

Presumably what he's saying is that a person falls in love, gets married, and then will get divorced, and if they live in a community property state, half of what they own goes to the divorcing spouse.

Or if you're rich - it doesn't matter where you live...

But gee, aren't trhere actually important things he could have talked about today? Why waste space on this?

Story #8: You Can Lose Half of What You Own in 1/5 Second

RUSH: I think this might explain what happened to some people with Obama. It's from Science Daily from yesterday: "A new meta-analysis study conducted by Syracuse University Professor Stephanie Ortigue is getting attention around the world. The groundbreaking study, 'The Neuroimaging of Love,' reveals falling in love can elicit not only the same euphoric feeling as using cocaine, but also affects intellectual areas of the brain. Researchers also found falling in love only takes about a fifth of a second.

"Results from Ortigue’s team revealed when a person falls in love, 12 areas of the brain work in tandem to release euphoria-inducing chemicals such as dopamine, oxytocin, adrenaline and vasopression. The love feeling also affects sophisticated cognitive functions, such as mental representation, metaphors and body image. The findings beg the question, 'Does the heart fall in love, or the brain?' 'That’s a tricky question always,' says Ortigue. 'I would say the brain, but the heart is also related because the complex concept of love is formed by both bottom-up and top-down processes from the brain to the heart and vice versa. For instance, activation in some parts of the brain can generate stimulations to the heart, butterflies in the stomach.'" This sounds like constipation to me. "'Some symptoms we sometimes feel as a manifestation of the heart may sometimes be coming from the brain.'

"Ortigue is an assistant professor of psychology and an adjunct assistant professor of neurology, both in The College of Arts and Sciences at Syracuse University," which is where Donovan McNabb went to school. I don't know if it has anything to do with it but I just know it so I thought I would throw it in. "Other researchers also found blood levels of nerve growth factor, or NGF, also increased. Those levels were significantly higher in couples who had just fallen in love. This molecule involved plays an important role in the social chemistry of humans, or the phenomenon 'love at first sight.' 'These results confirm love has a scientific basis,' says Ortigue." It also sounds like we're all a bunch of robots. A fifth of a second, Snerdley, think of that. One-fifth of a second and you could lose half of what you own.