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Why do right-wingers believe everything in absolute terms? ..... We on the left know there are no absolutes...... HR On Sat, 17 Jun 2006, warren greer wrote: > http://pnews.org/ > Progressive News & Views (since 1982) > > > Thank you, Dr. Mulick, for your corrections! It > goes to show the superiority of factual basis over > emotional partisanship -- even though our points were > not mutually exclusive. > I am, however, deeply saddened by tragedy of the > doomed love affair of Chromosomal Adam and > Mitochondrial Eve. The tale must be the genetic basis > for Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde, and > countless other accounts, which are but pale shadows > of missing one another by "...thousands of years....", > unquestionably the basis for a world-class opera for > Cecilia Bartoli and Woody Guthrie! > But, dang!, Dr. Jim! Weren't there even > five-legged creepy-crawlies when Earth was Pangea? > They are our Grandparents, too. Life forms today tend > to favor physical characteristics numbered in ones, > twos, > fours, fives, tens, and twenties, (although one of my > school-mates in East Texas had six-toed feet and was > the envy of us third grade boys.) Life forms in the > Burgess Shale in Canada had seven, twelve, and other > sets until Occam's Razor or some other catastrophe set > > in and weeded out all the odd forms. They, too, were > our Abuelitos and Bubbeles. As Debs might have said, > "If there is one person a prisoner, I am not free; if > that life form had three probosces, it was my > progenitor!" > Warren > > --- "James a. Mulick, PhD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> http://pnews.org/ >> Progressive News & Views (since 1982) >> >> Not bad, Warren. However, I think you are thinking >> of the mitochondrial DNA >> from a female common ancestor of us all, but she >> came from Africa. She is >> the only Eve we who live now can all claim. There is >> also a genetic Adam >> from whom whom we male humans are all (those living >> today) descended, but I >> am not sure of the genetic aspect he contributed >> (possibly the Y >> chromosome). Chrosomal Adam, however, did not live >> at the same time as >> Mitochondrial Eve, missing her by many many >> thousands of years. I take your >> point about who got there first, however. Nobody >> promised anybody any land, >> especially not any of the gods. Also, just to >> clarify, there were no people >> (no primates even) when the earth sported only one >> continent. >> James A. Mulick, Ph.D. >> Professor, Pediatrics & Psychology >> The Ohio State University >> >> (o) 614-355-8315 (f) 614-355-8361 >> Alt Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [No Institutional Endorsement of Message >> Content Implied - or even very likely] >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of warren greer >> Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2006 7:41 PM >> To: Warren Greer >> Subject: [pnews-views] Sense of humor? >> >> http://pnews.org/ >> Progressive News & Views (since 1982) >> >> >> Boy, do I feel dumb and left out of it all! I >> was under the impression >> that Hank was giving us a little heavy-handed satire >> -- not especially >> funny, but the issue has been turned into a morbid >> joke. >> "Gondwana" is the solitary land mass that >> existed before it broke up >> into continents. Every person now alive is the >> inheritor to a claim on >> Gondwana. (See N.B. at bottom.) >> Any child-bearing couples whose children have >> at least two children and >> this is repeated for four or more generations, are >> related, in this modern >> day, to every other person living. >> Q.E.D.: Every person on earth has a claim to a >> part of the inheritance >> left her or him by some distant Gondwanan relative. >> This whole thing of a zero-sum world in which >> you don't win unless I >> lose, and no body stops to think that we can both >> win more if we are working >> to make sure OUR kids eat more, NOT more than each >> other, but MORE THAN >> EACH DID BEFORE. THE FORMER, competition, creates >> obesity and diabetes, the >> latter, >> CO-OPERATION, creates wealth. >> The DNA studies show that the DNA which all >> living people have in >> common, came from some woman living somewhere in >> Central Asia a few thousand >> years ago -- maybe Kyrghizstan. She married a >> foreigner and left there, >> because when strangers would ask, "Whadda they call >> this place, anyway?" she >> would not be able to pronounce it for these >> ancestors of Ernest Hemingway. >> One of your and Hank's and my Bubbies, and if >> you try to deny it, I'll >> run a 5 inch Texas cholla up your nose, and OH BOY! >> you won't forget that! >> See? That's humor! Don't get mad and >> un-subscribe just because Hank >> is not as hilarious a comedian as I am! >> Warren >> >> >> Hank Roth wrote: >> >>> http://pnews.org/ >>> Progressive News & Views (since 1982) >>> >>> I claim a small track of land in Gondwona. I have a >> distant relative >> who >>> lived there and I defy anyone to try to take it >> from >> me, including the >>> little schmuck Billy Rainbow. I'll show him rape >> with >> a 20 foot >> Florida >>> Oak up his butt. It comes down to whoever thinks >> they >> can extricate me >>> from this blood soaked dirt - with a much bigger >> gun >>> than I do and be a better shot. >>> >>> I say, "Bring 'em on!" >>> >>> Hank Roth >> >> N.B.by Warren: >> >> Gond·wa·na·land [ gon dwnə lànd ] >> ancient >> landmass, consisting of the southern part of the >> supercontinent of Pangea. Comprising South America, >> Africa, peninsular South Asia, Australia, and >> Antarctica, it began to break up approximately 200 >> million years ago. >> See also Laurasia >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| >> pnews-news - (NEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsub" >> >> in subject to pnews-news-request(at)inyourface.info >> >> pnews-views - (VIEWS) - Send "subscribe" or >> "unsubscribe" >> as subject to pnews-views-request(at)inyourface.info >> > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| >> Everything begins at The Worm Hole: >> http://pnews.org/ >> >> >> ----- >> Something Really Nice for >> your Honey - http://blackhillsg0ld.com/ >> Something Really Sexy for Her for Holloween: >> http://tinyurl.com/q878y >> --------------------------------------------- >> NEVER pay for a podcast again: >> Check it out - http://tinyurl.com/mnr7r >> ----- >> >> >> >> >> >> > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| >> pnews-news - (NEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsub" >> >> in subject to pnews-news-request(at)inyourface.info >> >> pnews-views - (VIEWS) - Send "subscribe" or >> "unsubscribe" >> as subject to pnews-views-request(at)inyourface.info >> > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| >> Everything begins at The Worm Hole: >> http://pnews.org/ >> >> >> ----- >> Something Really Nice for >> your Honey - http://blackhillsg0ld.com/ >> Something Really Sexy for Her for Holloween: >> http://tinyurl.com/q878y >> --------------------------------------------- >> NEVER pay for a podcast again: >> Check it out - http://tinyurl.com/mnr7r >> ----- >> >> > > > > > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > pnews-news - (NEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsub" > in subject to pnews-news-request(at)inyourface.info > pnews-views - (VIEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" > as subject to pnews-views-request(at)inyourface.info > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| > Everything begins at The Worm Hole: http://pnews.org/ > > > ----- > Something Really Nice for > your Honey - http://blackhillsg0ld.com/ > Something Really Sexy for Her for Holloween: > http://tinyurl.com/q878y > --------------------------------------------- > NEVER pay for a podcast again: > Check it out - http://tinyurl.com/mnr7r > ----- > |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| pnews-news - (NEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsub" in subject to pnews-news-request(at)inyourface.info pnews-views - (VIEWS) - Send "subscribe" or "unsubscribe" as subject to pnews-views-request(at)inyourface.info |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Everything begins at The Worm Hole: http://pnews.org/ ----- Something Really Nice for your Honey - http://blackhillsg0ld.com/ Something Really Sexy for Her for Holloween: http://tinyurl.com/q878y --------------------------------------------- NEVER pay for a podcast again: Check it out - http://tinyurl.com/mnr7r -----
