Tuesday, February 21, 2006

Stuff

The Italian Supreme Court ruled recently that sexually molesting girls who have had sex is not as bad as molesting virgins. There are no women on the Italian high court. More than a few under it doggy-style though, I suspect.

An 8 year old boy's foreskin (that organ that in adults leads to full sexual sensation and fulfillment) is the centre of a lawsuit in the U.S. A man is suing his ex-wife in Illinois to prevent her from having their son circumcised (that practice when applied to another gender is called, rightly, mutilation). Oh, how I suspect god is involved in this one. Or maybe just someone trying to win an argument they lost at the hospital 8 years ago.

The mystery killer in my aquarium has run its course -- well, at least all of my coral are dead (save three -- including the most expensive and arguably the most spectacularly beautiful, which is one small ray of light). I shall not begin restocking for at least 6 months (an arbitrary amount of time I've chosen as the length of time any coral parasite can live without its hosts). I never did find any evidence (visual) of a parasite -- some of the more commonly known are easily seen, but given that the die off clearly affected one type of coral most specifically and totally (acropora) -- a couple specimens of other types did die, but I attribute that to the nasty decline in water quality resulting from a tank full of once gorgeous coral becoming white skeletons. I also ruled out general poor water quality (of those things I can't measure) given the fish have remained vibrant and the giant clams, the three surviving coral, and all the invertebrates have continued to thrive... (granted they all could be more hardy than the famously fickle acropora).

An Arab paper published cartoons making fun of the Holocaust. One has Hitler in bed with Anne Frank, the caption reading: "Put that in your diary Anne..." Which proves one thing: Muslim irreverence for Jews is much funnier than Danish irreverence for Islam!

My yoga teacher touched me a lot last night.

2 Comments:

Blogger Shigeki said...

Wow, a lot of information. I didn't even know about petting corals. How did he touch you by the way? Was there any follow-up after the class? okay, me, use the imagination!

8:04 AM  
Blogger Heipel said...

HA! Sorry Shigeki my instructor is a woman :) My BF had the same questions as you, but for different reasons. And the Japanese have some of the most spectacular coral reef aquariums in the world. Go browsing to see some photos.

9:00 AM  

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