The Agrinautica

   So Palestine from our committee (ESCWA, PAXMUN AMPAC 2006) recently called Mara to inform her that he had just seen Iraq (voted "biggest flirt" in our committee) on MTV's "Date My Mom" (see "Nicholas" in the pop-up here!!) Mara of course immediately contacted me. I'm going to call Palestine back as soon as Mara digs up his number. In fact, I'm going to tell Kuwait & Saudi Arabia via Facebook right now.

   Now there are two things that I find hilarious about this. (1) You'd have to see Iraq to properly understand. He was also voted "most likely to be Napoleon Dynamite," but had pretty much the opposite of Napoleon's trademark awkwardness. He also had long fabio style blonde hair. (2) I can't believe this committee is still interacting with eachother. Mara & I aren't really sure how Palestine got her number.


   In other news, the evening Mara & her friend Megan were here they went to the bar at Sophia's, having heard somewhere that that was the graduate student thing to do. There Megan met a man-jockette whom she apparently has fallen madly in love with.
   Mara has developed this theory that Davis is like Noah's Arc, in that it only consists of couples ... everyone she's met here is dating someone else here.


Dietary Editorializing
   The Aggie had an article on Pro-Anorexia communities. I thought I'd take this opportunity to throw in my two cents, which is that the "pro-anorexia" movement is morally reprehensible. I can't even think of a way to elaborate on that which doesn't seem incredibly obvious, and yet, for some reason there are an alarming number of adherence to this perverse cult. As this movement actively puts already vulnerable persons at much further risk of serious harm or death, I recommend it not be tolerated but rather one should proactively attempt to debrainwash anyone they know who has fallen victim to this deplorable belief.

   In unrelated dietary news, it has come to my attention that some (most, all?) vegans don't eat honey. Now I can understand that even avoiding milk & wool can be rationalized in that it might support the oppressive treatment of these animals, but lets talk about bees. I know about bees. They are much happier and healthier in man-made beehives than holes in trees (specifically, the optimum spacing of frames in beehives greatly improves bees ability to defend themselves against varoaa mites & wax moths). Honey is made to be eatin. Thats why the bees make it, and they produce more than enough of it, such that they can easily accomodate human harvesting of it. In summary, bees benefit tremendously from their partnership with humans. So why not eat honey, really?
   To put it in perspective, far far far more cute furry animals are shredded by grain harvesters every hour than have EVER been harmed in beekeeping. I'm not making this up; unless your grain is harvested by hand with a scyth, its probably not even vegetarian if you're gonna be a nazi about it.


Picture of the Day

Bailey as a wee lad & now