Pope Contradiction, Dolphins and Penguins, Fantasy Imperium and Borat, New Zealand

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The Pope has presented two Christmas messages; overcome prejudice (to the laity) and condemn gay marriage (to the clergy). The Age publised my letter this morning on said contradiction.

On another moral theme, recently the 20 million year old Chinese river dolphin was effectively sacrificed to the altar of economic development. When doomydoombear was visiting us from BrisVegas we took her to the St. Kilda pier and spotted some of the local penguins. Now some damn fools have murdered several of them. Human beings are a bad species.

In entertainment news my rather blunt review of Fantasy Imperium has attracted a fair bit of attention. Last night saw Borat. I find the reaction of various government agencies against Borat's (fictional) prejudices utterly bizarre given the unscripted real-people prejudices that are filmed. It's a great film; highly recommended.

caseopaya and I are off to New Zealand in a couple of days. taavi is visiting from Laos and will be housesitting over the new year, followed by severina_242 who will be dropping in in subsequent days to ensure that rodents and lagamorphs have sufficient food and water. My thanks to both of you.

Comments

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Why the heck do we kill penguins? They're utterly inoffensive to humans, and quite charming both in their aquatic grace and their ability to survive under conditions that we would have difficulty under.

I don't know if we're a "bad" species, but we're frequently unnecessarily cruel.

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I suspect the people that did so are on the bottom of the social ladder.

When one is a victim they feel better when they pick on those who are weaker.