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| 'Akin to taking sacred brain cells'... |
| 2002-05-21 |
This is kinda off my beat, but Hawspipe notes thatNATIVE AMERICAN ACTIVIST Winona LaDuke, the Green Party's vice presidential candidate with Ralph Nader in the 2000 general election, is leading a green political movement demanding a ban on research into the genes of wild rice on the ground that using the plant for genetic research is akin to taking sacred land:He then goes on to cite several people who took time out of busy and productive days to explain why the person is wrong. Now, I'm all for civil, well-reasoned discourse; that's our stock in trade in the Merrie Olde Lande of Blog. But when someone has obviously been dropped on his/her/its head from a fairly great height, the ideal reponse is a suggestion along the lines of "Oh, shut the hell up." Dignifying such drool with a civil answer should be way too much effort for the rest of us. We now return to our regularly scheduled ranting. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |