There's good news and more good news

That would be for those who are babyboomers. Or are the children of babyboomers. Or simply like alliteration.

These Boomers, you see, are playing video games, having sex and doing drugs. Not necessarily all at the same time.

But all this is qualified, verified and discussed, in great detail, by various and assorted government and research studies. At some point for scientists, I suspect, watching rats must get old.

Some personally significant highlights from Study A suggest that the heretofore Hair, Woodstock, Lucy in the Sky...Make Love Not War, aged folk who were smoking a bit of weed back then are still marijuana devotees. They have the distinction of being 'the group that never stopped, group'. 

Regardless of the dismal results for the decidedly middle aged in the 'meet your honey baby sweetie on line mating dance', studies showed that "individuals with strong, functioning sexual and intimate relationships will have better trajectories of health and well-being than those whose relationships function less well or who lack such relationships." One out of two isn't bad. If you really want to know what age group is doing what, to whom, and how often, read Study B.

Alrighty then, these Boomers are slightly buzzed, and purringly contented. Now what? Want to keep your mind sharp and age more gracefully? Buy yourself a Wii. Any loss of brain cells from the continuation of having a toke or two probably won't be rejuvenated, say these researchers but game playing seems to drive cognitive improvements. 

Is there some irony in the 60's mantra, courtesy of Timothy Leary, "tune in, turn on, drop out" now being relevant for the 60 something year old? Verified by research. Sex Drugs and Rock and Roll.