2007-02-22 - 11:15 a.m.

Hurr. So this morning, while brushing my teeth, I started to think about something when I looked at the towelrack. You know how if something with biological stuff on it, bacteria, whatever, is wet and left to... stay wet? For example, a wet towel left in the corner of a room? Well, obviously hanging up a towel means it'll dry off and not breed icky stuff as well. But that means there's icky stuff to start off with, yeah? I mean, I've scrubbed at skirting boards and washed under the faucet and cleaned the oven and washed the top of the refrigerator - and there are plenty of other spaces you never think to wash, but that you end up doing once every two years. I've never, ever wiped down the towel racks, nor do I think anyone in the history of mankind has. Do you think there might be weird bacteria on there? It'd just interest me to get swabs and do a culture, see what grows. Obviously it'd depend on the type of towel rack, too - ours seems that it would be more susceptible to breeding weird things on its surfaces than other towel racks. Just a thought... I wonder if anyone has ever studied it...

Terrorists fight for whales! Well, okay, not terrorists, but I'm sure if the illegal whaling was good for rich Australians Johnny would refer to these people that way. And wait! I've found a better article to put in that link, and the Japanese ARE calling them terrorists! I know that this may make me sound like a racist anti-immigrant southern US person ... "we can be racist to Mexicans because they're here illegally, and the police haven't picked 'em up..." ... but... they're in those waters illegally and aren't being reprimanded by the local law-enforcement agencies... whales are dying out... if those guys are willing to save any human lives endangered by their efforts then I don't see any reason not to condone their actions.

Saw a news report about someone charged with killing a pregnant woman, and they were charged for both the death of the woman and the death of the infant. But the headline was something like "Guilty for foetus death". (This was about three months ago?) What the fuck?! Then Screaming into the Void's quick rant about "womb attack" summed up the feelings there - in that case, no, a woman was attacked for the contents of her womb, and the womb is not the only part of her that is important.

Ohhhhh the use of "?!" reminds me of an imagined conversation, which for some reason I wished to relay here. It was kinda funny? Oh well.