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Boston City Officials Freak the Fuck Out
I don't think I need to post a link, so instead I'll post a link to an image that I find very, very funny:
Woman Wants To Get Rid of Her Annoying Legs
I can't wrap my mind around this mental disorder called body identity integrity disorder (BIID), or, more simply, a fetish for self-amputation. Maybe calling it a fetish is a little unkind, but that's what it seems like to me - the woman in the above article really, really doesn't like having legs, and she tries (twice!) to get rid of them.
In the Wikipedia article linked above, the anonymous writer of the entry includes this unattributed, unreferenced sentence:
Some BIID patients compare the evaluation of BIID as a psychiatric illness to the historical classification of homosexuality as a mental illness.
Assuming this is true, I have to apologize to the poor souls suffering from this miserable condition, because I'm pretty sure that there are very few animals who want to lose their limbs, but there might actually be a natural, wonderful, beautiful evolutionary precedent for homosexuality.
So, scientists thought gay people were crazy, huh? So that maybe gives you, the self-amputation fetishist, the historical clout and confidence to claim that you, too, are perhaps simply misunderstood, misdiagnosed and unfairly relegated to strait jackets and padded rooms. Schizophrenia, for example, was also historically classified as a psychiatric disorder, because it actually is one. While psychology of yore was perhaps unfairly influenced by the mores and superstitions of its age, just because it was wrong about homosexuality doesn't mean it was wrong about everything.
Simply put: wanting to lose a perfectly healthy limb is fucking crazy.
Take Sleeping Pill; Entertain Neighbors
Stilnox is available in Australia, but you can get it here, too, though we call it Ambien. I think it would be fun to take it and have your friends and family record your antics for the benefit of the grandkids.
I'm not kidding.
I really don't care about sports of any kind. I occasionally care about the proceedings of the occasional Steelers contest, but that's as devoted as I get.
This
video, linked here, is simply this: a bunch of puppies romping
around in a playground mock-up of a football stadium. It's compelling,
it's fascinating, it's educational, and it's goddamn adorable.
Cloning Declared Evil By People Who Don't Know What That Word Means
The organic craze is taking up the anti-genetic engineering movemement and embracing it as one of its own.
A clone, be definition, is an unaltered copy of an organism's genetic structure, no more and no less. We are not playing god by making clones, as some of said, because our bodies do it 4 times out of every 1000 births. My childhood chum Nathan is a clone of his brother, Andrew (or maybe it's the other way around - I guess there's no way to tell). They are identical twins.
With that in mind, I fail to see how a cloned cow tastes any different from a regular cow.
I understand how people are afraid of genetic engineering, a scientific procedure that has been used by humans for thousands of years (how else do you think a chihuahua and a newfie could be the same species?). But sometimes genetic engineering can be a really, really good thing.
For instance, like what this guy did, having been credited with saving approximately a billion human lives via genetic engineering.
I'd be satisifed with a sticker that said something like: "Certified! This Product is Not a Poison." I think that covers all the bases for me.
