He insists he doesn't want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was, and to let other parents kill similar babies as they come along and thereby avoid the suffering that comes with lives like mine and satisfy the reasonable preferences of parents for a different kind of child. It has nothing to do with me. I should not feel threatened.

This is an amazing article. I've often had internal debates over the parent's choice in the life or death of a child with serious disabilities. Unfortunately, this article doesn't touch base on how Harriet McBryde Johnson feels about the advances of genetic engineering and early detection of such disabilties.

I'm still a bit confused about the animal rights angle that Professor Singer has. Perhaps he feels that by taking the animal rights angle, he has more of a valid argument that somehow people who are severely disabled suffer as much as animals by being subjected to life? Maybe he feels that if we value human life in its early development stages so much, then we should value animal life just as much in proportion? Which argument supports which ;-)

Unspeakable Conversations

] I'm confused. I thought the argument about sexual
] tolerance had been won. In all decent, right-thinking
] circles, "homophobe" is now a bigger insult than
] "homosexual", while even the most reactionary old coves
] like to boast that some of their best friends are gay. So
] why the big fuss about a couple of girls kissing?

I think this is a really good article that touches on why it doesn't matter if the duo in TATU are really gay or not.

Argument

] Russian duo Tatu caused controversy with their raunchy
] video for number one hit All The Things She Said, which
] showed the pair kissing one another while dressed in
] school uniform, leading to accusations of "paedophilic
] pop". But does their music outshine the headlines?

The Smiths cover they do is actually pretty good. Does anyone actually know how old these girls are? I've read several sources that indicate they are over 18, but now I'm reading stories today that claim they are 16 and 17!! It makes me feel dirty!!

BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Reviews | More to Tatu than shock tactics

] US researchers have tapped into mouse brains while they
] sniff their partners' subtle perfume.
] We mainly use our eyes to recognize our mates, but many
] mammals rely on a cocktail of chemicals called
] pheromones. These are detected by a special organ behind
] the nose; it signals to the brain's pheromone processing
] region.

Animal attraction seen in action

] A Japanese scientist has developed a coat which appears
] to make the wearer invisible

Oh My God, this is sooo cool. Watch out Harry Potter!

Ananova - Japanese scientist invents 'invisibility cloak'

This is what it's really like..

oh yummy!

Geek Pr0n (SFW)

quoted material :

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Along the rugged coastline of British Columbia, more than a generation ago, the first American refugees trickled in. As the Vietnam War raged, draft dodgers who chose to flee America rather than fight an unacceptable war gravitated to Canada's west coast, to rain-washed Vancouver and northward in tiny villages astride deep fiords left by the glacial past.

A few of the new arrivals brought with them a taste for marijuana, and some began cultivating pot gardens. Isolated from the law by rugged terrain, separated from most of civilization by deep bays, a marijuana industry was born. As the tale goes, the coast north of Vancouver became a pot lover's paradise.

Now a new breed of American refugee has arrived, seeking asylum from a different kind of war--the fight over medical marijuana. By some counts, they number more than 100 expatriate U.S. citizens, many of them from California, the fiercest battleground in America's medpot fight.
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use "cpunks/cpunks" for username and pass.

The Drug War Refugees

This group is no match for Lesbian Russin Pop stars T.A.T.U (taty.us). What's really wrong about this group is that their MOTHER writes all of the lyrics and came up with the idea of the dynamic twin duo to shake their asses together. Who says sex doesn't sell?!? :-)

Cheeky Girls

Decius wrote:
] ] The shuttle is scheduled to be landing at 6:16AM Pacific
] ] Time in Florida early Saturday Morning, after a reentry
] ] that will cross just north of the Bay Area of California
] ] and then continue eastward before sunrise.
]
] People in California might want to stay up late tonight.

Wow thanks! That's really cool!

RE: [IP] Rare opportunity to see shuttle reentry in western USA

] When I was a kid adults used to bore me to tears with
] their tedious
] diatribes about how hard things were when they were
] growing up; what
] with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning
] uphill both ways
] through year 'round blizzards carrying their younger
] siblings on their
] backs to their one-room schoolhouse where they maintained
] a straight-A
] average despite their full-time after-school job at the
] local textile
] mill where they worked for 35 cents an hour just to help
] keep their
] family from starving to death!
]
]
] And I remember promising myself that when I grew up there
] was no way in
] hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids
] about how hard
] I had it and how easy they've got it!
]
] But....
]
] Now that I've reached the ripe old age of twenty-nine, I
] can't help but
] look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it
] so fuckin'
] easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a
] goddamned Utopia!

1987 Reprezent!