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	The Maturity Gap

willhelm

7-21-2009 10:12 PM

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7-23-2009 5:12 PM

jay8h

No wonder the young people went for Obama! Rush Limbaugh is right, " brains made out of mush".

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/142e35a1-4a35-4898-ae6d-2a40b432b8e1/C43DB86F-3503-429A-9BF4-8393295D6582/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/for_mature_audiences_only_1.html" href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/for_mature_audiences_only_1.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.americanthinker.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/for_mature_audiences_only_1.html"><FONT face="times new roman,times" size="3">Almost four decades ago, the 26<SUP>th</SUP> Amendment lowered the US voting age to 18.  At the time, most neurologists believed that the human brain was fully developed by about age 12, so allowing Americans to vote at 18 seemed like a safe move.</FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/for_mature_audiences_only_1.html"> If the Supreme Court thinks 17-year old brains aren't even capable of deciding not to commit premeditated murder, could slightly older brains be wise enough to handle far more complex decisions such as voting?</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/07/for_mature_audiences_only_1.html"><FONT face="times new roman,times" size="3">Normal adolescent brains go through </FONT><A href="http://www.livescience.com/health/090323-adolescent-brain.html"><FONT face="times new roman,times" size="3">synaptic pruning</FONT></A><FONT face="times new roman,times" size="3"> as they mature.  Until our early 20s, gray matter thins slightly.  Meanwhile, white matter thickens -- </FONT><A href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,994126-2,00.html"><FONT face="times new roman,times" size="3">sometimes up to age 40</FONT></A><FONT face="times new roman,times" size="3">. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; 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