... that movies often depict people getting drunk as if it is something funny. Doesn't Hollywood know that millions of people die from alcohol-related accidents and diseases every year?

The sad thing is that so many people have to get drunk to get laid.

Although having sex with a drunk woman who may not be able to give proper consent is a lousy thing to do, the bigger scandal is that in alcohol-consuming societies, social functions where single people meet nearly always involve the sale and consumption of alcohol. No wonder Muslim fanatics regard our ways as degraded.

And what is the purpose of drinking? While it might be a pleasant thing to enjoy an occasional alcoholic beverage with a meal, the main reason for drinking at parties or out on the town is apparently to be able to disclaim responsibility for your behavior the night before.

This goes for both men and women.

... but even the defender of Christianity claimed only that US culture is based on "Judaeo-Christian" values, whatever they might be.

Well, I guess the idea of universal literacy and education is a Christian idea, with Christians being the people of the Book, but even so one could argue that non-Christian nations (e.g. Japan) share the same values.

Universal health care also seems to have sprung from the role played historically by monasteries and Christian charities, but we don't even have that in the US.

The idea that the "Judeo-Christian" values on which our nation is built include Old Testament commandments like the injunctions against killing, stealing, and committing adultery is pretty weak, seeing as how these things are frowned upon in non-christian nations, and these sins are certainly widely practiced in the US.

Britain is a Christian nation, at least in terms of having an official religion, history, and a monarch who is the titular head of the church, even though few citizens actually believe any religious dogma. The United States is not a Christian nation, though it does contain quite a few churchgoers.

... and then citizenship even if you are legal is now so high, that even without additional fines, very large numbers of illegal immigrants would not be able to pay the cost of becoming legal.

Presumably, though, this would open up opportunities for Wall St. or employers of labour to make "Citizenship Loans" at high interest rates to people who may not be able to repay them.

Haven't we been there before?

Chimps, unlike humans, do not generally share most of their food; in fact, they fight over it (aside from mother-child relationships). But they do share meat, and meat only (including cannibalistically acquired meat). A quite remarkable fact, really.

Fascinating then that the central rite of the Christian religion is a shared meal in which bread and wine symbolize the flesh and blood of a human sacrifice. Spooky really to think that this might go back to primate behavior.

... if we take this seriously and stop joking around, what we should take as significant from this study is that sexual desirability in chimps is determined not, as one might expect, just by females mating with the male that is the most biologically perfect in appearance, but with the one(s) whose behavior provides biological benefits down the road.

This is actually pretty interesting, given the close relationship between our species and chimps. In theory wealthier human males ought to be more desirable to females, and on a local level this seems to be true, though on a macro level it doesn't necessarily follow that poorer populations are less likely to produce children. If anything, the reverse is true.

Of course human behavior in our own era is greatly distorted by the discovery that with the benefits of contraception sex can be enjoyed by both sexes just for fun--whereas in earlier times pregnancy was always a potential death sentence for a woman.

Hence in contemporary society in affluent countries sexual and reproductive success are not necessarily the same thing. In fact reproductive success is more likely to lead to a lower standard of living with less meat on the menu.

So ... if humans were like chimps, the guy who regularly took a gal out for a steak dinner would be more likely to produce offspring than the dude who offered her an unzipped banana.

Nah!

... should start with the practice of corporations of paying politically connected figures vastly inflated sums for giving speeches.

This is nothing but a form of disguised bribery and influence-buying, because nobody has anything to say that is commercially worth the amount paid, especially when the same speeches are being delivered to the competitors at the same rates of payola.