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?

more ranting below.......

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.  

More on the flip side.....