- Top Features:
- War Room
- Glenn Greenwald
- Broadsheet
- Joan Walsh
- Camille Paglia
- Since You Asked
- Follow Salon:
Read other letters about this article
Mmm.... If that were to happen, L.W.M., I suspect that we'd eventually evolve to be all teeth, so's not to wind up as someone else's endosymbiont (I prefer to drive rather than ride pillion -- Acharaych the motorcyclist would understand, I think) and to synthesize our own Pepto-Bismol, just in case we inadvertently ingested a bucky or two along the way.
Damn. Why does a conversation with you always seem to want to fly off in all directions? I mean, honestly, even a polymath has to light somewhere sometime.
Presumptuous Insect, I worked at a university for over thirty years. The humiliations and the uncertainty inflicted on the graduate students, not to mention the poverty, always made me deeply angry. Their eventual creation of an effective union on my campus was a marvel to behold. Of course the fact that this was in California, not Texas or Alabama, may have had something to do with their success.
