Grandma's House

Taranto is really on a roll recently. Here's the best part of Best of the Web today:

A news story that's been making the rounds has it that laptop computers are dangerous for male fertility, because actually holding a computer on your lap can change the temperature of the genitals, diminishing sperm production. The WebMD.com account of this problem caught our attention:

Is the increase enough to impair male fertility? The researchers can't say for sure. However, they note that another study showed that sperm concentration dropped by 40% when median daytime scrotal temperature rose to about 34 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius).

Thirty-four degrees Fahrenheit? If your family jewels were only 2 degrees above freezing, you'd have trouble reproducing too! Obviously the problem here is the metric system, and that explains why Europeans have such low birthrates. The French, who invented the metric system, even have a word that explains why it is a dead end. But then surely you've heard of a cold-de-sac.

I love those guys!