tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post4321290644918906657..comments2023-12-17T19:35:07.459-08:00Comments on Bouphonia: The Human CommunityPhilahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-82523619173197021772009-03-15T18:01:00.000-07:002009-03-15T18:01:00.000-07:00Egads, I just realized that my closet does not con...Egads, I just realized that my closet does not contain a single butt-plug or abortion pill. Not <EM>one!</EM> I do have my tattered, sticky copy of the <EM>Origin of Species</EM> but I confess that I only masturbate to it once a day, and never anywhere but the sterile confines of my golden throne. I understand that a True Librul decorates his Ivory Tower Penthouse with dead babies and signed copies of union contracts, and at that too, I have failed.<BR/><BR/><BR/>I hereby surrender my Ivory Tower hall pass and sense of entitlement. I will be forever shamed.BruceHhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13573856289974966062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-86102409793069671692009-03-14T19:54:00.000-07:002009-03-14T19:54:00.000-07:00Well Said Indeed, Phila. Great Post!Well Said Indeed, Phila. Great Post!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-80230773407175513752009-03-13T09:17:00.000-07:002009-03-13T09:17:00.000-07:00BTW, what does the lovely Jennifer Eccleston have ...<I>BTW, what does the lovely Jennifer Eccleston have to do with Gerson? Can we dispute any claim he might think he has?</I><BR/><BR/>I just thought that the sight of "Miss Shock and Awe" smirking in front of a burning city said something about the "human community," as conservatives tend to see it.<BR/><BR/>I don't actually much of anything about her. I remember they tried to make a sex symbol out of a newscaster during Gulf War I, too, and he wasn't too happy about it....Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-33545717816136989582009-03-13T00:12:00.000-07:002009-03-13T00:12:00.000-07:00It also smacks of religious humiliation -- like as...<I>It also smacks of religious humiliation -- like asking a rabbi to serve the pork roast or<B> an atheist to bless the meal.</B></I><BR/><BR/>I was once asked to say the blessing for a meal, I stood, lifted my gaze ceiling ward, held my hands out over the food, palms down, and said: "This meal is now blessed."<BR/><BR/>Then I sat down and asked for the mashed potatoes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-86901334283974011142009-03-12T21:07:00.000-07:002009-03-12T21:07:00.000-07:00killing foreigners for fun and profit doesn't beco...<I>killing foreigners for fun and profit doesn't become moral just because you forged God's signature on your permission slip.</I><BR/><BR/>This is what I wish I'd have written.<BR/><BR/>Point taken on the claim staking. <BR/><BR/>BTW, what does the lovely Jennifer Eccleston have to do with Gerson? Can we dispute any claim he might think he has?Jazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-43114594886072145332009-03-12T11:15:00.000-07:002009-03-12T11:15:00.000-07:00I dunno. Historically, most men have always been q...<I>I dunno. Historically, most men have always been quite generous about sharing their sperm cells . . .</I><BR/><BR/>It's not sharing...it's claim-staking.Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-60047790656342805582009-03-12T11:04:00.000-07:002009-03-12T11:04:00.000-07:00Gerson has no problem booting inconvenient human b...<I>Gerson has no problem booting inconvenient human beings into the outer darkness, for the sake of money or personal righteousness (assuming there's a difference).</I><BR/><BR/>One of the many things in this post I wish I'd written.<BR/><BR/>Kudos.missyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02244825802377730693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-8336703322311689472009-03-12T08:21:00.000-07:002009-03-12T08:21:00.000-07:00I dunno. Historically, most men have always been ...I dunno. Historically, most men have always been quite generous about sharing their sperm cells . . .Jazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-47091547910903952512009-03-11T21:55:00.000-07:002009-03-11T21:55:00.000-07:00This is typical wingnut biobabble. WTF does Develo...<I><BR/>This is typical wingnut biobabble. WTF does Developing Life mean? </I><BR/><BR/>Maybe the problem is that you're looking at it biologically, instead of from the standpoint of property rights. It'd explain the men's rights movement, at least....Philahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15849261651028725772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8695598.post-11873116734178750102009-03-11T21:03:00.000-07:002009-03-11T21:03:00.000-07:00If developing life is merely protoplasmic rubbish,...<I>If developing life is merely protoplasmic rubbish, it has the legal claims of a cyst or a toenail. But if a politician believes life is sacred, the destruction of more than a million lives a year cannot be merely one issue among many.</I><BR/><BR/>This is typical wingnut biobabble. WTF does <B>Developing Life</B> mean? Tracing this presumed line of thought back to it's logical beginning must be the reason for the Christian Right's belief in the sanctity of the sperm cell. (Sorry, I'm a recovered Catholic.)<BR/><BR/>Let's see how this goes. The sperm infiltrates the egg, they get jiggy and make a blastocyst, which can develop into an embryo, which can develop into a fetus, which can develop into a person, if everything goes along OK.<BR/><BR/>The idea that life begins at conception is just as arbitrary and indefensible as the idea that life begins at birth.<BR/><BR/>If a blastocyst has life, it is the same sense that the drop of blood blood that dripped onto the tabletop the last time I had a minor accident with a kitchen utensile had life. <BR/><BR/>Wiping it up with a tissue, that then got discarded, makes me . . . uh, it makes me the same as those people who discard the stem cells that don't get used for research, and end up in the garbage. NoT the people. The cells. In the garbage, that is. I'm the same as the people, not the cells.<BR/><BR/>That clear?<BR/><BR/>WV: metaddle. I think I just wrote some.Jazzbumpahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07337490817307473659noreply@blogger.com