Update

In case my throngs of faithful readers are losing sleep over my lack of updates lately, let me assure everyone that all is well, and I am up to my usual escapades designed to keep me away from academics as much as possible.

If you care to see what I've been up to, check out the popular pictorial depictions here, here, and here.

I have also been busy on TexAgs, spewing my radical views and generally trying to get on people's bad side in various other ways.

IDIOT OF THE WEEK:

ZAMBIAN PRESIDENT LEVY MWANAWASA

Now here's a world leader who's really scores high on the idiot quotient. Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who has refused donations of genetically modified corn from the U.S. to solve his country's hunger crisis, has asked his starving countrymen to remain patient while "scientists investigate the issue."

Last month, Mr. Mwanawas's government rejected corn donations from the United States, the largest donor of food to alleviate the southern African famine, because some of the American corn was genetically modified. Talk about political correctness gone mad. The Zambian government -- taking its cues from the well-fed environmentalist lobby in Europe and America -- said it was worried about the danger genetically-altered corn could pose to the health of recipients of such food donations. Better that they starve to death, it would seem, than have their health potentially threatened by environmentally-unsafe agricultural products (which, by the way, United Nations agencies have certified as safe).

Well, that's one way to deal with environmental hazards, as defined by the environmentalist fanatical fringe. Let people die, rather than be exposed to politically-incorrect food stuffs which might, um, damage their health.

And what a neat solution it is from the point of view of the affluent, well-fed environmentalist activists in the West who have foistered this half-baked science on the Third World. These designer activists can happily depart their favorite gourmet eateries with full bellies every evening, head home to their comfy brownstone abodes for the night, and happily fall sleep knowing that they have once again thwarted the greedy American agribus monster -- saving the hungry of the Third World from the horrible evils of genetically-altered food. After all, better dead than wrongly fed, they'd probably argue.

Unfortunately, none of it will be of much comfort to the millions of starving people in Zambia as they waste away from hunger.
(from http://www.iconoclast.ca)

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Update

In reponse to my last post, I have written a story at Movementarian.com

"PHILADELPHIA, PA - In an unprecedented move of bipartisan cooperation, Bush has proposed and Congress has passed a new Constitution and Bill of Rights to serve a new governing document for the Equal States of America©. The move came after the leaders of both parties openly admitted that they had been blatantly ignoring the old Constitution for years, not to mention to the publicly hallowed but usually ignored Bill of Rights"

I think I'm gonna be sick

Hello again to my hordes of faithfull readers [sarcasm]
I've gotten over my cold/fever and am feeling much better, plus I've been busy with the various clubs that I'm in.
I'm taking four out of five classes at the Bush school which are fairly interesting, but there is on in particular -- Constitutional Rights and Liberties which has been....annoying me to no end. More specifically, reading the textbooks for the class nearly makes me sick every time I pick up my books. Let me give you some examples of the questions the authors poses:
"What are rights and liberties if you lack the resources to take advantage of them?"
"What use is freedom of speech if no one can hear you?"
"Is it possible for the welathy few to dominate public debate and stifle the 'free marketplace of ideas'?"
and my favorite,
"Does the Constitution protect us from private institutions which interfere with our liberties and rights?"
Hey, Mr Sulivan, do you have any idea what rights are? How about the initiation of force?
Apparently not, as he subscribes to the ideology that everyone is guaranteed the "right" to a paycheck, food, housing, healthcare, cable television, and a spot to spew his rhetoric as part of his "constitutional rights" to everyone else's life, liberty, and property --an ideology also known as "socialism," "communism," and more recently, "democracy."

Back in Aggieland!

WHOOP!

SUMMER'S OVER

But it was good while it lasted: