1. Eric's upset about that list of best albums ever. I agree, it's stupid. But there's nothing I can do about it, people are always going to try to quantify subjective things. It's like Rolling Stone and their obsession with listing the best guitar players. They're all different styles, etc but somehow some are better than others in a quantifiable manner.
2. John Edwards is dumb. If you watched the VP debates in '04 you saw him get trounced by Cheney. I'd rather Rick James' bloated corpse was President than Edwards.
3. Here is a recent academic paper describing, shock of shocks, that people are different. Really? From the summary (Care of Gene Expression):
"It has often been observed that people are different. Indeed, some observers have gone further to suggest that this diversity exists between people from different parts of the world, or of different ethnic groups, and it is hereditary. This latter observation has led to a certain amount of contention over time. As a result, many geneticists have been wary about asserting that such differences exist."
Uhhhhhh....maybe if you're Amish and only see other Amish people. I don't know, some of us observe culture/race/ethnic differences everyday. I guess it's just not PC to say that people are different and it might be genetic. You what else is a shocker? Males and females are different. I'm never going to get an academic job with an attitude like that.
