What I Did During My Plague Vacation ( by Me)

[greygirlbeast]

1. No, I'm not dead. Though, round about night before last, it would have been preferable. I am much, much better this morning, so hopefully I'm quickly recovering. Tiger Balm patches are a marvelous thing. Now, if my body would just shutdown the mucus pumps for a while. But, seriously...people are always asking, why do you never go anywhere or do

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[stsisyphus]

That icon is rather enchanting, although I'm sure that's not much of a comfort.

[greygirlbeast]

That icon is rather enchanting, although I'm sure that's not much of a comfort.

I think that is the appropriate reaction.

[robyn_ma]

'Tiger Balm patches are a marvelous thing.'

We swear by them.

[greygirlbeast]

Me, I just swear.

[robyn_ma]

Piss. Fuck. Republicans. Shit.

[greygirlbeast]

That's the spirit!

Bastard. Ass. Sarah Palin. Goddamn.

[kylecassidy]

have you read kornbluth's Marching Morons (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons) -- he envisions a future where all the smart people have stopped reproducing because they realize the worlds getting overpopulated, which leaves ....

[greygirlbeast]

Yep. But thanks for bringing it up, all the same.

[robmacanthony]

Exactly.

I made the same point below, before reading all the comment and realizing it had been made much more effectively here :)

[sovay]

Well, I'm glad you're not dead.

[greygirlbeast]

Well, I'm glad you're not dead.

I suppose I am. Though, if I were...well, how can one be glad they're not dead. Were I dead, I'd not be sorry.

[robmacanthony]

Glad you are feeling better.

I saw this news story about some footprints whose age might result in rethinking how long ago sea-to-land transitional forms appeared:

http://sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/52896/title/Footprints_could_push_back_tetrapod_origins

As for the Mormon, people like this by definition will continue to outnumber the more rational and sane amongst us. Losing battle?

[greygirlbeast]

Thanks for the link, though I either blogged or tweeted this story some time back.

As for the Mormon, people like this by definition will continue to outnumber the more rational and sane amongst us. Losing battle?

It's a very, very flawed line of reasoning, that "smart people" must try to keep breeding at the same pace as "stupid people."

[robmacanthony]

Yes, it is a terrible line of reasoning. I've heard it proposed seriously on a few occasions. The thing to do is to better educate people on issues of sustainability, environment, and the like, starting when they are children. I don't think this kind of education is done in an engaging enough fashion at the childhood level for the lessons to be learned and remembered into adulthood.

[literateshrew]

While agree education on sustainability, etc are vital, I don't know that will do it.

A better approach, IMHO, would be to actually (not just in theory, mind you) give people better options as to what to do with their lives BESIDES having babies. And then value those choices within society. We need to place a higher on childless individuals' contributions to society, rather than placing all this emphasis (or pressure) on women to reproduce.

What I'm saying in a nutshell is that feminism is the answer. We need to take away this misguided "moral imperative to reproduce" that biases women away from other worthwhile pursuits and towards having as many babies as possible. I mean, maybe, just maybe, if we lived in a world where having babies was NOT seen as the be-all, end-all of female existence, we wouldn't have this problem.

Just sayin'.