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...With this huge amount of daily killing in Iraq, executing Saddam will not bring sadness or happiness to any honest Iraqi," said Abu Ammar al-Aljaberi, a lawyer in Baghdad.? "We live in another kind of dictatorship now, one run by other killers...
...think there's been kind of a carnivalization of protests, that occurred in the late ?90s and continues, especially among what are called the anti-globalization protesters. If you look at the 1999 Seattle protests, there was a tremendous amount of costuming, the famous "turtle suits" worn by the environmentalists, as well as music. I went a rally in Brazil in 2004. It was fascinating - people came with their drums, and some people had face paint on, like they might at a soccer game. People were dancing in the streets...
...finally against other humans. That may well have selected for humans who had these skills and talents. Evolutionary biologists always beat their heads up against these things. Why do people do things like music? Why do they dance? These are things that are big calorie burners, a tremendous amount of energy at times. You don't do things like that over hundreds of thousands of years and survive unless it's some selective advantage. So I'd say we're hard-wired to party...
...obesity, in people and mice, might be caused, or anyway encouraged, by a type of bacteria called Firmicutes. What these microbes do, for reasons of their own, is not to make you firmer or cuter, but to increase your absorption of calories, so you get fatter on the same amount of food. They don't care any more about your waistline than mice, or your holiday visitors, care about whose house this is. They just know that in a fatso, they thrive...
...anyone interested in holding the world's worst despots accountable for their crimes, the Iraqi High Tribunal's conviction of Saddam for the 1982 massacre in Dujail should be cause for celebration. And considering that the 148 people killed in Dujail amount to only a tiny fraction of the thousands who died under Saddam's murderous rule, it's perverse to claim that capital punishment did not fit the magnitude of his crimes. By most codes of retributive justice, execution is the only worthy end to such a brutal life. But it is also a mistake...