Date: Thu, 25 Feb 99 16:20:21 EST
From: "Brian J. Callahan" <Brian=J.=Callahan%MT%DFCI-AT-EYE.DFCI.HARVARD.EDU>
Subject: Re: Jesus and Buddha read the minds of plants!


Andy writes:
>You guys shouln't worry about Saddam, when the cows have slipped in 
>BSE with little fuss.

>From my perspective, the funniest thing about that horrifying phenomenon 
(BTW, I don't think that in an anarchist society even us ruthless meat eaters 
would be so nutty as to feed meat--never mind cow--to cows, which are 
herbivores.  That's the profit motive for ya--anything to save a buck) was 
that even the BBC would refer to it as "mad cow disease".  It just seemed 
like a Monty Python skit.  

I loved that snippet on Chumbawumba's Tub Thumper where a woman declares: 
"This is mad cow stew..."

I fear my posts are growing increasingly incoherent today.  I'm just sitting 
here in my office in Boston watching the snow come down and sipping a very 
good Chilean cabernet sauvignon (thanks Gen. Pinochet, I woulda probably had 
to pay $18.95 instead of $8.95 without your ruthless "free market" policies).
They are predicting anywhere from 9 to 24 inches by tomorrow.  Everyone else 
has fled for the safety of hearth and home.  Very rarely is it this quiet 
here.  A silent fall of snow...