Oil hit a record $86/barrel on its rush to $100/barrel oil. I ran into A Siegel on the mall in DC at the solar decathalon competition of model solar homes. The University of Maryland home was fantastic. I strongly recommend visiting it and the other display solar homes before they close on the 20th.
But the news my wife didn't tell me about today at the ASRM conference hit the world news. She obviously didn't go to the right talks.
Abstaining from sex can lead to lower quality sperm.
Again the British news is covering topics the MSM doesn't dare to cover. The other story you won't read in the US MSM is about Iraq.
Iraq is trying to make foreign guards liable for damages in Iraqi court, but oil companies are likely to object, reports the Guardian, but no mention appears in the U.S. media of the oil company objections, so they must not be driving us policy, right?
An Iraqi minister visiting the UK boldly tried to assert Iraqi authority.
"If there are any crimes, they must be under Iraqi criminal law," she said. "It's a crime and they must be punished for those crimes."
Under a 2003 decree signed by Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority and, in effect, the civilian governor at the time, foreign employees of private firms cannot be tried under Iraqi law. That decree was confirmed in 2004 and has not been changed since, despite the election of a sovereign Iraqi government. Nor have American private bodyguards in Iraq been tried under US law.
Why did Bremer pass such a decree that would so limit the sovereignty of the government of Iraq? Julian Borger reports in the Guardian what the U.S. MSM won't tell us.
However, any attempt to enforce Iraqi law on security contractors is likely to meet resistance from oil companies and many diplomats, who prefer the protection of highly-trained and well-paid private guards.
Bremer made the edict not to benefit the people of Iraq or the U.S. military. He acted in the interest of big oil and the bureaucrats that serve the oil companies.
However, oil still hit record highs and solar is where we should have invested our money instead of fighting a war to control oil. With half a trillion dollars we could be solving our energy problems and we could be reducing our dependence on oil. And we could be paying less to heat our homes this winter.
But my wife is here in DC for ASRM. Back to the title story...
The news is, more sex is good for sperm quality.
The Australian scientists studied 42 men whose sperm had been found to be an abnormal shape when examined under the microscope.
They were told to ejaculate daily for seven days, and these samples were compared with those taken from them after three days' abstinence.
All but five of the men had less sperm damage in their daily samples compared with the post-abstention sample.
Just another day in DC.