godddd why didnt the science of sleep come out in mcallen today :((((( i wish i lived in austin then i could have seen it god god godddddd today also this thing happened where i said the wo
the new blow album is so goood! for real homies, so good
I was recently struck by the thundering of dissent against the work of Dr. Charles Roselli, a biologist at the Oregon Health Sciences University, OHSU. Dr. Roselli, who works primarily with sheep, is the author of a series of papers about sexual orientation in rams the so-called "gay sheep" which suggest that sexual orientation is hard-wired in the animals' brains before birth. Provocative stuff, to be sure, since it may mean that homosexuality is definitely biologically programmed, part and parcel of the natural world, and, therefore, that the rights of homosexual humans should be beyond contention. Duh, I know.
its unsurprising that Dr. Roselli's work would come under fire; what is surprising, however, is by whom. Of all organizations imaginable, the radically leftist People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA, infamous recently for their amazingly tasteless Beyonce Knowles coup, in which they verbally attacked the pop singer in a restaurant for her fur-oriented fashion choices) have taken the OHSU research as a misguided call to arms.
PETA, in a trenchant attempt to stop Roselli's work, posted a petition on its youth-oriented website, claiming that "these experimenters believe that homosexuality is a defect that needs to be fixed, and they're cutting open and killing gay sheep to do it." Meanwhile, Roselli has repeatedly told the media that his work is completely neutral, that he's trying to understand the biological impetus behind complex behavior, and, according to an interview with the Seattle Times, that he isn't even a "nature-versus-nurture kind of dichotomist." why would PETA target this kind of research? After all, Roselli and his team deal with a grand total of 16 sheep in their lab, while American meat-packing companies plow through over 4,000,000 yearly and no one learns anything from those, other than that they might taste good with a little mint sauce and some potatoes. Of course, a great deal of animal research is morally dubious and, frankly, unnecessary, but the work of these OHSU researchers and many others throughout the country is in a completely different league: no one's putting shampoo in puppies' eyes here.
Don't get me wrong, I love our animal brothers, but that doesn't necessitate a blind adherence to any and all political group which claims to represent them. It seems that PETA has cherry-picked the OHSU team and manipulated its hot-button modus operandi in order to turn people away from any kind of biological research involving animals, a politically-biased strategy that wouldn't be out of order among Intelligent Designists and those who deny the increasingly obvious presence of climate change. As if we needed another anti-Science group in this country!
PETA's rhetoric is questionable; the petition on their site ends with "I am sure that you want your university to be known for making real medical advancements that actually benefit humans, not for torturing animals and promoting homophobia." It is also sensationalist, borderline silly, and frighteningly similar to the language that the Southern Baptists' Convention uses to criticize stem-cell research. Alls I'm saying is, language is dangerous, but not as dangerous as extremism.
homiess lately i have just been hanging out with myself in my room for like the past weeeks anddd i like it alot and i think its because i realllyyy dont like anyoneee i think probably? i used to like aton of people! but now i dont like anyone! why! i dont hate them i just dont like themmm, and im not saying im better than them eitherrrr beacuse im totally not duhhh i dont know but i just dont like people i guess plus who cares being a loner is niceeee it feels nice i guess i dont know dude! i like it,
and also we are playing this amoda show thing oct 13 then a breakfast show the next day at 10 am if you wanna go just ask me where it is i guess but the bands playing are tomato and tumy toast and happysucky and maybe another one but i dont know, and we are playing this other show nov 8 with video hippos (www.myspace.com/videohippos) but i still dont konw whereee! does anyone know where we can have it????
woah! okay bye
ohh but i also miss some people!! like mat jordyne and jamess and renee (where are youuuuu homie!!!)))))) and christopher(i never knew how to spell or say christompuim!!) how! :( but i think thats it? ya probalyyyy
FUCK! i just remembed im going to be in austin on saturday! so now i have no where to watch the mexico vs argentina game! somebody let me watch it at their house?!
this last weekend was really so fun. i liked the mountains in monterrey a lot and all the houses that were crawling up them. i thought it was really cute how even though we didn't know spanish and they didn't know english we were still trying to talk to each other with little words and stuff like that. i want to go back again
before mexico, james and jose came to work on our set^-^, [we always work on our set right before the show^0^] and to eat some vegan chocolate chip cookies mat bought the chocolate chips melted, though, when we added the soy margarine stuff we microwaved
everyone go to the chico y chico, finally punk, night wounds show friday at the parlor! and saturday to the chico y chico, happysucky, assacre, whos jealous, narwhalz and prog dogs show at 900 AURORA, AUSTIN, TX 73301 !!!
tour is almost all set up!! one more date! yesssss! aweomseee!
JORDYNE WHERE ARE YOU?! IM WORRIED ABOUT YOU! I HOPE YOU AND MAT ARE OKAY! IF YOU READY THIS CALL ME PLZ!
AW YAH YAH YAH
i think we are playing this weekend in austin with assacre and chico y chico i dont know where!! some art gallery i think okay but im not sure if we are now because we cant get a hold of jordyne! but i think me and james are still going to do something else? probably okay!!
also! i ripped my jeans! like they had too many holes that last night when i put them in the washer they just ripped! fell apart! no more jeans!! if you have a pair of jeans you dont use give them to me!! okay!!!! i need to save up money for tour i cant waste a penny on jeans!!
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