.. and they're all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same...

Agreed. Culture adapts more quickly than evolution.

Now the deserts are paved and irrigated, and little boxes made of ticky-tacky dot the hillside. All with AC and all just the same. Culture can adapt again.

>> ^dag:

I think it could be that STDs have evolved quicker than us. Therefore we use culture as a way to beat their faster microbial evolution. The same goes for dietary laws. There were probably pretty good reasons for not eating shellfish, if you lived in the desert without refrigeration. >> ^notarobot:
I've never understood the argument that a normal body part, found on pretty much every mammal species on earth, evolved over millions and millions of years is flawed.

>> ^rottenseed:
I don't know it's a really broad comparison when you start comparing different countries. I don't know where he got his numbers, I don't know where those numbers came from. I also don't know if Dr. Funkyfinkle or whatever her name was didn't rebut his cancer argument because he was right, she didn't know, or she didn't want to get into a ticky-tack battle over the specifics of the studies and statistics.
There should really be an official non-partisan organization gathering these numbers, giving them to EVERYBODY so that nobody can exaggerate.


The problem isn't that nobody knows...it's that the numbers can legitimately cover a range, and sometimes a large one. On top of that, one side appears to have no solid connection to reality, or interest in staying factual. Death panels, anyone? With an attitude like that, no "authoritative source" of numbers is going to matter...they'll just make up numbers they like better. Just like they do now.

I don't know it's a really broad comparison when you start comparing different countries. I don't know where he got his numbers, I don't know where those numbers came from. I also don't know if Dr. Funkyfinkle or whatever her name was didn't rebut his cancer argument because he was right, she didn't know, or she didn't want to get into a ticky-tack battle over the specifics of the studies and statistics.

There should really be an official non-partisan organization gathering these numbers, giving them to EVERYBODY so that nobody can exaggerate.

The White Ribbon sounds like a rather joyless experience, but i want to see it anyway. Antichrist should be good. Have been meaning to cement some plans to make it up to toronto for the festival but im afraid i wont get any tickies.

Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes made of ticky tacky,1
Little boxes on the hillside,
Little boxes all the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And the people in the houses
All went to the university,
Where they were put in boxes
And they came out all the same,
And there's doctors and lawyers,
And business executives,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

And they all play on the golf course
And drink their martinis dry,
And they all have pretty children
And the children go to school,
And the children go to summer camp
And then to the university,
Where they are put in boxes
And they come out all the same.

And the boys go into business
And marry and raise a family
In boxes made of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one,
And they're all made out of ticky tacky
And they all look just the same.

By Malvina Reynolds, 1962.

Dude Ricky Ticky Tavy just owned that ass