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c9Knowing that many of my friends have different interests, I present several different items for comment:
1. This morning, when there's normally mindless pap, a local radio station accidentally allowed actual conversational debate to leak through: one DJ was defending his decision to never vaccinate his children, and the others were talking about how diseases used to wipe out thousands or millions every few decades, but vaccination has curbed this. His take was that "humans are the only species that does not allow nature to take its course," i.e. Darwinism. Thoughts?
2. The Pope has had a feeding tube inserted to help his caloric intake. a) would the reports have placed feeding tube in the headlines if Terry Schiavo hadn't taught us all the lingo? b) He is *so* not long for this world. Watch for the white smoke at the Vatican, kids.
3. Yesterday, school buses throughout large sections of Ontario north of London were delayed for two full hours. By fog. WTF?
1. This morning, when there's normally mindless pap, a local radio station accidentally allowed actual conversational debate to leak through: one DJ was defending his decision to never vaccinate his children, and the others were talking about how diseases used to wipe out thousands or millions every few decades, but vaccination has curbed this. His take was that "humans are the only species that does not allow nature to take its course," i.e. Darwinism. Thoughts?
2. The Pope has had a feeding tube inserted to help his caloric intake. a) would the reports have placed feeding tube in the headlines if Terry Schiavo hadn't taught us all the lingo? b) He is *so* not long for this world. Watch for the white smoke at the Vatican, kids.
3. Yesterday, school buses throughout large sections of Ontario north of London were delayed for two full hours. By fog. WTF?
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Date: 2005-03-30 09:28 am (UTC)1. I'd really consider humans to be part of nature, not separate from it. But if you go just by the spirit of the DJ's comment, I trust he'd be happier if people routinely died from infections bourne of cavities from unbrushed teeth? Realistically, I think any animal would love to interfere with nature to advance their interests -- it's just that humans have become the most proficient (though not necessarily foresighted) at doing so...
2a. Reports probably wouldn't have assumed that people knew what "feeding tube" meant -- it's entered the lexicon now. That said, it sounds like his is somewhat different, if it's going in through the nose. I guess the plan is that it is supposed to be temporary?
2b. It will be interesting to see what happens, if it turns out that the current Pope could be kept "alive" indefinitely through heroic intervention. Who gets to make the call? Would his staff be fulfilling God's will by allowing him to die, or fulfilling God's will by keeping him alive?
3. Some of my most pleasant elementary-school memories involve walking to school through the fog. Suck it up, kids.