The Agrinautica

   It has occured to me, that IF Hillary Clinton were to be elected President, that would mean that for 24 years the Presidency will have had been held by two immediate families.

   Is this not rather alarming? And why haven't I heard the media point this out?

Zombie Rights
   So something occured to me in reference to this Schiavo fiasco; if one is going to define "life" in a divinely recognized sense as merely breathing, then that would certainly include zombies¹.
   Now this sounds silly, but I think it has serious implications. And before I go on I will note that not all religious persons believe the unliving corpse of Schiavo should be continually fed, and not all religious persons have in the past believed in zombies. But in times past the religious community overwhelmingly allowed for the existence of zombies and the like (and certain official bodies officially speculate on exorcisms for example). Now at the very least, the belief in zombies was so widespread that if it was against religious doctrine to terminate them, it without a doubt would have been noted. Thus I think there is really compelling reason to believe that most religious doctrine up until extremely recently would have held that the Schiavo body is not alive, we have no obligation to maintain its existence, and in fact it may well be an abomination which should have a stake placed through its heart.
   And for that matter, how is Schiavo different from a zombie? I mean, presumably she doesn't want to eat our brains and her bite won't infect the living with her condition, but I think otherwise she is arguably undead at this point. And as previously noted I'm not an adherent of religion in the traditional sense, but if I was all up in arms about the sanctity of our souls, I would say the continued support of the Schiavo corpse is more an insult and abomination to the sanctity of our souls than the contrary. After all, it holds that our souls ARE inextricably linked to our body rather than that they are something separate. I really think the religious people who are for zombie rights in this case have seriously got their theology in a mix up.

See Also: Yasser Arafat Declared Undead - Arafat, now fighting for the rights of the "un-alive" may well have some things to say about the Schiavo case.
          Comic on this Subject - that actually inspired me to these thoughts.

¹Do zombies breath?! Even if they don't, their muscles clearly function in other similar ways to achieve locomotion and biting.


Hot or Not, Statue Addition
   Once again contention has has been broached in Daviswiki as to whether or not what is currently referred to as The Ugliest Statue [in Davis] is in fact ugly. As usual, we here at Emosnail are eager to resolve this through polling. In fact, renowned naysayer Saul Sugarman also maintains that "those who have not visited Davis or the Davis Wiki have not been able to vouch for themselves on whether or not they like the statue" and therefore we shouldn't prejudice them. As such its of particular note that those readers who have not seen the statue for themselves take a quick gander at it and then weigh in.
   The numbers shall be defined as more or less: 1 it is divine; 2-3 its beautiful; 4 it is pleasant; 5 average; 6 rather unattractive; 7 it is quite ugly; 8-9 it is probably the most ugly statue in Davis; 10 it is possibly one of the ugliest statues I have ever seen. This is discounting the gaudy neon peice of archetecture in Drew Circle (nothing to link to? )= )
[Poll #464328]


Picture of the Day

   I took this about two weeks ago when I went for a long walk. Its a hallway in what appears to be an abandoned fire station next to the UC Davis Airport.

Previously on Emosnail
   Two Years Ago Today: Not Skanking
   Year Ago Today: AA Meeting

Yasser Arafat: Dead?? Not Dead?! Undead!!
Paris, France - Conflicting reports have been filtering out of the military hospital containing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat regarding his condition for the better part of a week. World leader's have accidentally announced their condolences at his death only to find out later that he's officially still alive. On Wednesday however, all parties have finally come to a compromise: Yasser Arafat is undead.
   "This certainly solves the debate over where he would be buried" a Palestinian official commented. Authorities at the French hospital reported that they would be releasing the undead Arafat back into his natural habitat later on this week. While it appears the undead leader will probably no longer be involved in Palestinian politics, an individual close to him reported "he wants to fight for a homeland for the un-alive now, a place where the life-impaired won't be second-class citizens anymore and will no longer be subject to prejudicial attacks and oppression anymore ... at least thats the impression I got from his moans and grunts." A friend of Mr Arafat confirmed "they prefer to be called 'the un-alive' rather than 'the undead.'"


Bush Replaces Ashcroft, Claims Radical Conservatism Was Just A Joke
White House, Washington DC- Earlier today it was announced that controversial attorney-general John Ashcroft will no longer be serving with the Bush administration. Bush explains "that radical conservatism my administration formerly espoused? Yeah that was just to get me re-elected. Seriously that was some crazy talk." In a speech remarkably lacking in grammatical errors, Bush went on to announce that the United States will be signing the Kyoto Protocol and other environmental agreements, and that he'd actually recently met with several influential Iraqi rebel leaders, including notably Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, and over tea, crumpets and an evening of watching television they settled their differences.
   "At one point we were flipping through channels and Degrassi came on. Abu Khalid became enraged and promptly took a nearby cocktail waitress hostage, but I was able to convince them it was an entirely canadian production and they calmed down." As a result of this sudden turn-around, violence in Iraq has come to a stand-still.
   "I'm still going to have Michael Moore arrested on trumped up charges and sent to a forced labour camp though" Bush was later heard remarking to an aid.



But Really Now
   Kristy and I will be heading down to Orange County tomorrow morning and staying there until Sunday.

   So yesterday I'm standing outside the Ralph Nader speaking event talking to noted republican George Andrews when on the subject of politics someone I don't know says to me "you're an anarchist aren't you?" Then aggie reporter Stan Obklobzija asked me if I knew where rabid communist John Green¹ was and if I had anything to do with the Nader event.

¹If you could cross communism with rabies, John Green would have it.

   Former ASUCD President Sara Henry accused me of being a member of the green party in a newspaper interview, the ASUCD Ethnic & Cultural Affairs Commission once discussed whether or not I'm a republican. I dunno somehow it just seems to me to be very unclassy to clearly belong to a particular political stereotype. Anyway, time for a poll:

[Poll #365251]
[Poll #365252]


Entertainment Council
   Also we had an entertainment council meeting yesterday. I was actually given another title to add to my collection - I was declared to have the glorious title of "head grip."
   Also while brainstorming bands we want to bring to campus I plugged Momsex. The rest of you should help bring the ingenius creators of Zombies v Pirates to our campus by telling blushbystander how awesome they are over and over again.

("Now with 29% more blog!")