a hornet fell on me today but did not sting

sitting in the park today, i met an old sheepdog named thurman. even all that hair couldn't cover up those eyes.

i finally finished reading Genome: The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters.

the last 2 chapters spoke of eugenics and free will.
it was so interesting to learn of all the scientists who glorified the case for eugenics and the politicians that put eugenics into practice--putting laws into place to stop the stupid people from breeding.
this, of course, led to insane asylums and sterilization...putting the crazies away so they couldn't procreate; for some countries, like Germany, the laws allowed 70,000 already sterilized psych patients to be gassed, to free up beds for their soldiers during WWII.
needless to say, Hitler was a fan.

of course, even though many of the sterilization laws were changed, people are still, to some degree, practicing eugenic medicine today.
for example, older mothers-to-be, because of their "high risk" of Downs babies, can receive amniocentesis to check the unborn baby for a duplicate of chromosome 21 (which is indicative of Downs Syndrome)...if present, they are conjoled into aborting the fetus.

anyway, fascinating stuff. read it.

Music to my ears: Explosions in the Sky ~ Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall Live Forever
(good sittin in the park & readin music...the kind where watching 3 butterflies play makes a beautiful moment -m.)

Words to live by: "Either our actions are determined, in which case we are not responsible for them, or they are the result of random events, in which case we are not responsible for them" ~this is Hume's fork, subsequently named such after this dilemma that plagued the philosopher David Hume