Channel Surfing reveals that Nature is EVIL

Hi,

I was scanning channels on tv at approximately 10:30 today when I came across a program on NatGeo, "In The Womb: Extreme Animals2" (click on link for more info) which talked about a parasitic wasp that lays its eggs inside the body of a caterpillar. By itself, this nothing amazing. What happens next is interesting. The wasp uses a million year old virus to take control of the caterpillar to make it DO whatever IT wants it to do. It uses a 100 million year old virus to take control over the caterpillar.

1. It prevents the caterpillar from rejecting the eggs as foreign material from its body


2. It paralyzes the caterpillar when it is close to breaking out of the host's body so it can't move
3. Once the larvae hatches out, it builds its own cocoon. It then fools the still alive caterpillar to protect the cocoons, first by building a protective layer around it.
4. The caterprillar then stands gaurd over the wasp cocoons protecting them from predators, until it finally starves to death!
   

Charles Darwin is often thought of as the scientist behind modern biology. However Darwin was a deeply religious man. Charles Darwin even used one family of parasitic wasps as evidence for natural selection, writing to a colleague: "I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created the Ichneumonidae with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of caterpillars." (Ref: Click Here)

I wonder if our Moral Minority will censor this research for the same reasons that Charles Darwin suggested? Call me evil, but somehow it makes me feel good to know that Nature is not as morally GOOD as it is often made out to be.

I switched channels to Vh1 which gave me advice on how to handle a world where EVIL was inherent. You can read it too, but to hear it, you need Baz Luhrmann's song, Everyone's Free (to use sunscreen).

Kerala's new laws aimed at repressing women

From when I can remember, Kerala has been always afraid of women. Perhaps its because it is one of the few places in the world, that used to have a matrilineal system where WOMEN were the ones with wealth and property, instead of being considered as property themselves.

In the closely networked Kerala society, women have to be policed "for their own good", and Sexual Scandals are the stories that catch headline news. The Internet and Mobile Phones have become the secret backdoors where women talk to men other than their brothers or husbands. This security lapse has to be bridged at all costs. After all the divorce rates in Kerala are skyrocketing and the high literacy/education of women isn't helping either.

Mr. Kodiyeri Balakrishnan comes to the rescue of women with new cyberlaws that will prevent erosion of our " cultural heritage" .... in short it will prevent women and unmarried girls from having affairs.

Here is a quote from the article linked to above.

"The mobile and the Internet have now been identified as root causes of cyber crimes and most of the victims are women and girls. ...." said Balakrishnan

Another article says

"This will mislead the new generation, thereby bringing in value erosion in society," Balakrishnan said adding this challenge should be met by thorough probe into such cases.


I think we could learn a thing or two by the way China handles its Internet. Perhaps we should send a high-powered delegation to learn about it.