Pre-plenary blogging

After an extremely long and frustrating trip through the bureaucracy, I'm sitting in the press section of a fancy-looking U.N. conference room where we will shortly hear from--among others--Chilean president Michelle Bachelet about climate change mitigation strategies.

While we wait, I thought I'd point out these two ridiculous articles, respectively headlined "College Drinking: Less Than You Think" and "College Sex: Going Home Alone" as if the content of each was a shocking refutation of the conventional wisdom about college sex and college drinking.

I think it's safe to say, though, that while college sex and college drinking are nowhere near as rampant as they must seem in the fevered imaginations of some over-protective parents, the average kid has much, much more sex and booze in college than he or she did in high school. There are occasionally consequences to this behavioral change, but none so grave that anybody--even the most paranoid 50-year-olds out there--refuses to send their children to college.