Moderate drinkers are hawt!

This article claims that the benefits of moderate drinking may have been overstated by some recent studies. They point out that in one large telephone survey, it is true that the moderate drinkers were healthier than the non-drinkers, but that may not be a direct effect of the alcohol. Rather, "Moderate drinkers tended to be in better health, better educated, wealthier and more active than their nondrinking counterparts, and that likely influenced their lower risk of heart disease... It appears that moderate drinkers have many social and lifestyle characteristics that favor their survival over nondrinkers"

My inevitable conclusion? We drinkers are much sexier than the teetotalers! We've got health, wealth, education, and activity on our side. You know you want that over a fat, poor, dumb, boring teetotaler!

But seriously, why would that be? Sure alcohol is a bit expensive here in the States, but poor drunks on the streets prove you don't have to be rich to drink. Drinking is usually associated with gaining weight (the beer belly), yet moderate drinkers are healthier than teetotalers. Alcohol is a depressant, yet moderate drinkers are more active than teetotalers. What's going on here? Maybe we all just need a vice and the drinking is less harmful than what we'd do if we didn't drink. I don't know. Any ideas?

And in some old news, this threesome led to death. The two women decided to take out the man. To think that previously the guy's friends probably thought him lucky as hell. Deputy Skip Stone said, "The cause of death has not been determined, but Selby had been drugged, tied up, strangled, bludgeoned and burned." I'm going to go out on a limb here and say he probably didn't die from an allergic reaction to shellfish. Did the women think they were killing Rasputin?