Link up Friday: a hodge-podge
Things that caught my interest this week, in no particular order:
A vacation home in Key West, Florida. I know I will probably never, ever, have a vacation home, but I do like to look at them and get ideas on how to decorate my own home one day. When I’m not living in an apartment. This house is interesting as it’s one of a handful that survived a Cat 5 hurricane that blasted apart Key West in 1846.
Always, Charlie the Coyote is a source of “aw” and “adorable”. From his pup days to kissing calves in the snow, it’s amazing to me that he is still a wild animal who happens to live with a woman (and cows, geese, and I think, a chicken or two). Seriously, how freaking adorable is the video of him kissing calf noses?
For those who claim that homosexuality is a sin against nature, Mother Nature begs to differ. Lions, elephants, snakes, penguins, giraffes, sheep, bison, dolphins, even fruit flies, have homosexual relationships. So, the next time someone sets off about homosexuality being against nature’s laws, you can point out just how wrong they are.
The secret to immortality has been found: in a jellyfish. Since the jellyfish can revert back to it’s polyp stage, there is no real way to judge it’s lifespan.
The Monstrous Feminine by Marie Brennan. Women, no matter the flavor, seem to be much more terrifying than men.
I’d heard of female genital mutilation before, but it was always going on in other countries. Far from home, and from me, and it had gotten used as a joke in a few stand-up comedy routines done by women. (”I don’t have to worry about that here, as American men have no idea what a clitoris is, never mind how to find one.”) But, now it’s being done in the name of “science” and aesthetics. And, in the case of paranoid idiots who think anything to prevent having a gay child is worth it, someone involved in the study dug up information claiming that a large clitoris has lead many females to identify as lesbian. I didn’t think there were people that stupid in the world, who believed slicing off part of their child would prevent them from being gay. I had to wonder, what they did if a study showed that cutting off the tip of the left ear, and the middle of finger of their right hand, meant the child would grow up hetero, would parents do that? Would there be a bunch of nine-fingered kids running around playgrounds?
Pardon me while I go throw up again.
And, last, big cats facing extinction. While Dr. Jackass disgusted me, enraged me, this gutted me. “If all the Bees were gone, humans would be gone within 4 years.” I know that a clouded leopard is not the same a bee, but the sentiment in the same. Once the big animals disappear, how much longer do you think it would take humans to disappear?
