People will be asking: What are the environmental consequences of breathing and farting?

If detrimental, should I kill myself?

It's funny how these people demand the biologist's data as if he has it hidden somewhere. The thing about science is that all the experiments are public and if a scientists wants to get anything published his work has to be peer review--meaning other scientists have to come to the same conclusion based on the data.

Science isn't some secret society where people have to gain special access to the sacred materials in order to know The Truth. It's not a cult. It is simply the best tool we have at the moment to discern facts from the universe. That's it.

Also while 20 years may seem like a short time for something to evolve, you have to look at the mutations by generation and not years, 31,500 generations in human terms is about 600,000 years. We were monkeys in the trees back then.

It's nice that the Peter Singer kooks come out from time to time on salon. However, the fact that they're typing away at their computers kind of refutes their own argument. It's intellectually dishonest to subvert your own species' exceptionalism in the name of some HUMAN ideology, such as animal rights. You can't say that a species that builds skyscrapers is the same as a gazelle, however much you'd want to.

Do you think a lion has any kind of animal rights agenda? His animal rights are his right to eat you and not be hungry. Imagine if a human being behaved in this way. Some do, of course, and guess where we put them: in prison.

When bonobos start creating wooden likenesses of themselves (or nuclear missiles) and gathering around them and chanting, then you may say we are not exceptional. When a chimp can independently discover the Boltzmann constant, or the ooh-ooh-ah constant in his 'language', then you can claim we are no different than cows.

But until then it's pretty hard to argue that a tiger is your brother when he sees you only as food.

I mean some of you claim we are no different than animals, but at the same time claim that humans are destroying the planet through their industrial activity. No other species that I know of is capable of industrial activity or uses fossil fuels.

So which one is it?

Otherwise it might easily end up as Fun with Dick and Jane II. And I would hate for Ricky (professional couple only) Gervais to end up in yet another Hollywood poorly written, unfunny, insult to our intelligence, crafted for 10-year-olds / farmers, unwatchable love guru dreck, especially as his first starring role in an American movie.

"But even before she can get her knickers on I've seen everything, I've seen it all."

Fried Gold.

His problem is that she's going to be 24 and he is her boyfriend. If only he could change one of those things.

Seriously, this dude strikes me as very naive about his gf. She's obviously some kind of superficial slut/party girl, and the excitement isn't there anymore. If only he were an ex-con coke dealer instead of a mature individual in touch with his emotions he'd be so in. Then she would feel useful in the relationship as she tries to "set him straight" but alas he's perfectly well adjusted. Shame.

Does it matter that new democrats are being registered in Florida. In 2004 Kerry lost Florida by like 200,000 votes. All the state-wide offices are held by Republicans, and the Florida legislature is among the most conservative in the nation and won't be going away anytime soon.

In fact, outside of Miami--which is a very small part of Florida at almost the souther tip--Democrats aren't very popular. Also McCain has Charlie Chriss who is very popular in Florida. Add to this the fact that a lot of older voters (old people make ~%60 of the Florida Electorate) don't care for Obama / believe the lies.

Team Obama will have to win this election by assuming that FL will go to McCain

My hope is that they will be able to make it up in VA and Co.

I am now reminded that I saw one of the volumes at a bookstore a while back, but did not pick it up. I'm not really into comic books and how far can you extend the "last male" scenario anyway?

I am for gender equality, however I'm by no means a "Feminist". But Western societies, where women hold positions of power and advanced degrees, would keep running. Eventually, through cloning technologies, women would have children--all females of course. So this "last man" would be looked upon as a curiosity, and, if he's attractive enough, would have his pick of beautiful women to have sex with (just because men disappear doesn't mean all women would suddenly become lesbians.)