What has me shaking my head is GfS's contention that breeding like a gaggle of rabbits means that one is more highly evolved. If that were true, there are quite a number of species, say, for example, gerbils, who would have wiped out war, disease, achieved space flight, and attained Nirvana by now. Hell, my sister's miniature poodle used to pop them out nine at a time!

Just a little side note as a matter of interest. Here we are on a planet where the immense surge in human population within the past few centuries has raised some pretty serious Malthusian warnings from just about all of the sciences. As of today, the world population is swiftly approaching 6 billion, 800 million, and at the rate we're going, we'll top 7 billion sometime next year.

That "hockey stick" graph that people keep talking about. Barbara has a world population graph magneted to the refrigerator door with an arrow pointing at 6 billion, saying "You are here," and another arrow pointing at 9 billion, saying "You don't want to be HERE!" We'll hit that point well before the century is over.

Interesting to note that the Indonesian government, worried about the population explosion, particularly in their country, have tried to encourage homosexual relationships, hoping that this will put the brakes on the frightening increase in population.

It's not working! Sexual orientation is not a matter of flipping a coin!

Yet, GfS talks about the glories of indiscrinate breeding.

By the way, Ake, were you aware that men are 100% more likely to get prostate cancer than women?

Beam me up, Scotty! There's no intelligent life on this planet!

Don Firth