Personally, the use of the word “duh” really bothers me, but somehow the intellectually-challenged expression for “you idiot” or “tell me something I don’t already know” seems to fit this three-year study about how teens who watch more television are more likely to initiate sex. Really? Who would’ve thought that? Do you think perhaps incivility and violent behavior in younger people have anything to do with the explicit scenes teens see on TV and in the movies?

Researchers need to get right on a new study to find out if movies, advertisements, electronic games and just general public behavior have any influence on teens and their behavior. You’re almost guaranteed to find out they do. So what’s the point of the study.
It’s not like the purveyors of entertainment are going to stop making the money they rake in.

But it may be webcast.

A group of Oconee County residents teamed up Tuesday to push county commissioners to once again consider televising or webcasting their meetings, citing other places like Athens-Clarke and Walton counties that either have that service or are getting it.

County officials have studied airing commission meetings before but said deals with the three cable companies that claim the county as a service area would be too expensive.

But Farmington resident Tony Glenn, part of the group behind the new push, told commissioners at Tuesday night’s BOC meeting in Watkinsville that technology has changed and webcasting could be a cheaper option. Glenn runs a Web site where he plans to continue posting videos of the meetings. He captured the commission’s milestone vote last month approving beer and wine sales in county restaurants. It’s become Oconee’s first viral video, from what he says.