checking on american politics is bad for my mood

[megaera_inc]

It takes a very special kind of moron to mock research using fruit flies as a model and say that such research is a waste of funding and time, in one of very few policy speeches you have made, when that very research is helping scientists understand a disorder one of your relatives suffers from

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[sarajayechan]

lol Palin. God, election day just can't come fast enough. :/ SO tired of the tension and the nailbiting.

I actually did not know they used fruit flies to study those things. But the bulk of my high school biology memories involve studying heart surgery procedures and pond organisms. >.>

[megaera_inc]

Here's something I just remembered that makes her look even more of an idiot: fruit flies helped geneticists discover that genes were on chromosomes, and how someone can inherit three copies of a chromosome. Do you see where I'm heading here?

[sarajayechan]

Yeah, I think so.

[megaera_inc]

Yep, fruit flies have helped doctors explain to Sarah Palin why her baby has Down's Syndrome :)

I've been annoyed at politicians before but never have I actually been stunned by one's breathtaking ignorance.