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Take a look at this chart from a Discover Magazine blogpost that shows people who drink more have more extensive vocabularies.

The chart is based on WORDSUM scores (a vocabulary test included in the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) compared to percentile groupings of people in the survey who identified themselves as drinkers. 

There are many more drinking graphs in the post including drinking by demographic categories, by regions of the United States, and by political and educational categories.

Go read it and then pour yourself a drink.

Oliver Stone’s latest movie “W” will be released to theaters on October 17th 2008, mere weeks before the Presidential Election in Novemeber.

Oliver Stone says:

“We don’t really know much about Mr. Bush beyond the controlled images we’ve been allowed to see on TV. This movie’s taking a bold stab at looking behind that curtain.”

Here is the trailer:

From the Telegraph in England:

The 90-second clip starts with scenes of US President George W. Bush, played Josh Brolin, struggling to find his way before entering politics: a whirl of drinking contests, gambling, drink-driving and being thrown in jail – he is seen being led down a prison corridor in Yale sweatshirt.

“If I remember correctly, you didn’t like the sporting goods job,” his father George H W Bush, played by James Cromwell, says as he lectures his son.

“Working in the investment firm wasn’t for you either, or the oil rig job. You didn’t exactly finish up with flying colours in the Air National Guard, junior.

“What are you cut out for?”

Bush senior continues as Brolin, star of No Country For Old Men, hangs his head.

“Partying? Chasing tail? Driving drunk? Who do you think you are? A Kennedy? You’re a Bush. Act like one.”