I clicked on an Ask.com ad because it had a graphic of a snake that caught my eye. I actually like snakes, so... this ad might not have gotten more squeamish folks to click on it. From the Ask.com page, I followed a link on Dealing with Snakes, and where this sentence made me laugh out loud: "Sadly, the survival of many of our snakes is threatened by development, road mortality, and persecution by humans." Yes, yes, The Free Dictionary says that's a valid use of "persecution," but the images in my head... of people picketing with signs that say "Down With Snakes!" or "God Hates Snakes!" just made me laugh.
Last week, I stumbled across a website with an interesting article on Stanley Milgram's research on obedience. I remembered studying his research back in my college psych classes -- where the subject is told to administer increasingly painful shocks to someone. Sheesh. I've been trying to write about this for half an hour. But I just don't know what to say. I'm fairly horrified. (If you can say "fairly," can you truly still say "horrified"? idk) Check the links. Or even Wikipedia. Crazy.
This and that.
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