Like 6 or so years ago, when being militant seemed worthwhile, I was all, "If this Bush dude gets elected, we're going to go to war, industry will ruin everything for everyone, and the Supreme Court will become a conservative taskforce." Now, this from the BBC:
Judge Alito, 55, replaces Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who often held the swing vote on key issues.
Now, this, from me:
FUCK.
To relieve my brain strain, I've been trying to think of the worst joke someone could make...and I have found it. Ahem:
Is the caviar in a precarious position? Because I believe Roe is about to be overturned.
I am a demigod of wit. Except, not.
Posted by Chris at January 31, 2006 05:45 PMYeah, here's someone else who hates Bush (via the Koufax Awards.
Posted by: Fatboy at January 31, 2006 06:40 PMNice joke there, Chris.
On the upside, Bush did promise to start implementing math and science standards last night, and his goal of reducing Middle Eastern oil dependance is quite impressive. Granted, it's a pipe dream, but he's trying.
But yeah, overall a very bad day. Personally, I don't think Roe will be overturned, but then again, that's just my barely informed opinion. I'm more worried about this PATRIOT act crap being upheld by this new court.
Posted by: Rick at February 1, 2006 11:33 AMI listened to the State of the Union address last night, too (well, most of it, I missed the first few minutes putting my daughter to bed and laying down with her for a bit). This is the first one I've really watched, since normally I'd just watch the Discovery Channel or something. Is it always so divided between the parties? It really struck me how different the reactions were between the Democrats and the Republicans, where the Republicans would give standing ovations, and the Democrats wouldn't even clap, and the Democrats giving that standing ovation when he made that comment about Social Security reform not being passed.
I agree that it would be great if those new math and science standards got passed, especially the funding, but it does worry me how people like Bush try to control science. Here's one of his comments that bothered me:
"Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research, human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling or patenting human embryos."
What scares me most isn't so much that Bush is president, it's the masses of uneducated, ignorant Bible thumpers that voted him into office, and the type of influence they have at all levels of government.
Hey Rick, do you have blockquotes disabled? I tried to use a blockquote tag for the Bush quote, but it got erased.
Posted by: Fatboy at February 1, 2006 12:55 PMBlockquotes are now enabled (I have a whitelist for HTML tags on this site - I never used blockquotes much so I never had them on the list before).
Posted by: Rick at February 1, 2006 01:14 PMThose hybrid mice remind me of an article I read recently that talked about how much scientists have learned while studying mice. While humans are more complex than mice, it's interesting to see what happens when scientists are given enough access to an animal. The theory being if given access to embryos, we could make headway into solutions for humans.
A few treatments, preventions and cures in mice:
Full article with references can be found atSeed Magazine's website.
Posted by: Rick at February 1, 2006 01:25 PM