Why does it take SEX to get people's attention?

ThaliaR

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Saturday September 30, 2006 · 9:41 AM PDT

2006/09/30 · 09:41

Why on earth is this what it takes to get people interested? Of all the reprehensible things that the Republican Congress and the Bush administration have done, why is it that the scandal with legs is Mark Foley sending pedophiliac IMs? Were all the other things just not titillating enough for the American public?

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Debate on Patenting the Human Genome & My Father

ThaliaR

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Tuesday October 25, 2005 · 6:35 AM PDT

2005/10/25 · 06:35

Yesterday, in Kos' post about "1/5 of the human genome is pantented" and the following uproar, I was both amused and upset. Why? Well, my father wrote those patents. So, although I don't have a Ph.D. like he does, or a law degree, (like he also does) I do have years of dinner time conversations, and less of a hatred for "big pharma" than I should have, being the card carrying liberal I am.