Tuesday, July 29, 2003
What a bunch of idiots
In a strange opinion, some character named "Justin Azadivar" shows an amazing lack of understanding of reality in his letter to the editor. "Matt Murray should put aside his pointing finger and put on his thinking cap"? What is this, elementary school? Does Murray need a special pass to go to the bathroom?
On down the line a ways is an environmentalist piece from Mike Vandeman. "It's about time we accepted the obvious fact that the Earth doesn't belong to humans. Homo sapiens is a species that is native to a small part of Africa. Everywhere else, we are rank newcomers, compared to all other species, and ought to act like a guest: with restraint." This trio of sentences has so many things wrong with it that I think I'll mention some of them. First off, I fail to see how being a newcomer requires us to act with restraint. I've been alive for a pair of decades. That makes me senior, in fact, to most plants and animals. They should be treating me with respect! I'm their elder! How stupid can you be? We're not visitors, staying over the night at all-the-other-animals-and-plants' house. The Earth doesn't belong to them any more than it does to us. You don't see any other species acting with restraint. Besides, to say that we are newcomers to this continent compared to all other species is downright false. Many plants and animals were introduced to this country by humanity.
Mocking of environmentalists is fun. They make it so easy. Oops, time to go eat genetically modified foods! You know, the ones that are evil because.... because.... umm.... well...
Speaking of crops, Eric Schewe pokes fun at the delay in UC Merced's opening with a cartoon. Except that the cartoon is of a farm. I'm not saying that corn huskin', pig callin', and tractor ridin' aren't legitimate passtimes, but they aren't generally considered diversions anywhere Eric is using as his model. Frankly, his San Franciscan chauvinism deserves some serious ass kickin'. Besides, farms get huge government subsidies, which is a strange image to use when complaining about how the government isn't subsidizing UC enough.
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