Yee-Haw

Look forward to near-term surge in the population of West Virginia.

From Wired magazine...

An argument, raised Monday in an editorial in Public Library of Science Biology, may turn the stomachs of people raised to disapprove of any form of incest. But dispassioned analysis suggests that cousin marriage is no more troubling than childbearing by middle-aged women.

"Women over the age of 40 are not prevented from childbearing, nor is anyone suggesting they should be, despite an equivalent risk of birth defects," write zoologists Hamish Spencer and Diane Paul. Bans against cousin marriage, they say, should be repealed, "because neither the scientific nor social assumptions that informed them are any longer defensible."

Thirty-one states outlaw marriage between first cousins, making the United States the only developed country in which the practice is regularly banned.

Aren't there enough people in the world that a person doesn't have to marry their cousin? Just asking.

All joking aside, I bet there's some partying going on in West Virginia these days! (I can say that since no one in WV has ever read my blog.)

Yeeee-hawww.