A nasty side effect.....

....of publishing soft-core porn appears to be mental deficiency.  How do I know this?

Well, former "Playboy" Chair-woman Christie Hefner is claiming that the surge of murders in Chicago is due to global warming.   No kidding. 

Now, exactly how this is hitting Chicago and not even warmer cities like Miami, Houston, Dallas, Knoxville, Birmingham, and the like is beyond me, if excessive heat is the problem.  If it's warming, one would figure that you'd also see the problem in New York, Minneapolis, and definitely Indianapolis and Milwaukee.

But no, it's just Chicago, which has the dual disabilities of strict gun control laws and being the hometown of President Obama.

So what can we conclude?  Well, apparently publishing pictures of naked women destroys one's mental abilities, even if one isn't attracted to those images.  So take this as a warning to those who would; if you do this, you're far more likely to fall for junk science and overall lose your ability to think.