three things and leftover pecan pie
Nov. 28th, 2008 10:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilman1. The Good: Happy (almost belated) birthday, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
deire! Hope it was a dramallama-free day...
2. The Bad: Watching the news, we're left still wondering at who might actually be behind the terrorist attacks, and why they chose the targets they did. My mother (who knows a bit about the region, professionally) and I have both been thinking 'something about all this doesn't quite make sense...' I mean, as much as terrorism ever makes sense-as-sane-people-see-it. The actions and the politics and the probable/intended results aren't quite aligning yet. *sighs* I don't think humanity is ever going to get its collective shit together, no. We're still territorial apes, no matter if we're trampling each other for the sake of saving $ in our holiday shopping or shooting each other in cold blood over geo-political religious differences. *despairs*
3. The comic relief: this? Cracked me up.
http://www.henryhemp.com/node/3010
"OTTAWA — Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China...The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany....The 18 researchers, most of them based in China, subjected the cannabis to a battery of tests, including carbon dating and genetic analysis. Scientists also tried to germinate 100 of the seeds found in the cache, without success."
Humanity can be amusing and playful apes, too. Pity we don't do more of that.
deire! Hope it was a dramallama-free day...2. The Bad: Watching the news, we're left still wondering at who might actually be behind the terrorist attacks, and why they chose the targets they did. My mother (who knows a bit about the region, professionally) and I have both been thinking 'something about all this doesn't quite make sense...' I mean, as much as terrorism ever makes sense-as-sane-people-see-it. The actions and the politics and the probable/intended results aren't quite aligning yet. *sighs* I don't think humanity is ever going to get its collective shit together, no. We're still territorial apes, no matter if we're trampling each other for the sake of saving $ in our holiday shopping or shooting each other in cold blood over geo-political religious differences. *despairs*
3. The comic relief: this? Cracked me up.
http://www.henryhemp.com/node/3010
"OTTAWA — Researchers say they have located the world's oldest stash of marijuana, in a tomb in a remote part of China...The cache of cannabis is about 2,700 years old and was clearly "cultivated for psychoactive purposes," rather than as fibre for clothing or as food, says a research paper in the Journal of Experimental Botany....The 18 researchers, most of them based in China, subjected the cannabis to a battery of tests, including carbon dating and genetic analysis. Scientists also tried to germinate 100 of the seeds found in the cache, without success."
Humanity can be amusing and playful apes, too. Pity we don't do more of that.
