i agree with the last two posts whole-heartedly. all of these experiments are so snobbish when it comes right down to it.

a better idea, of course, is to put a bad musician or artist in a museum or concert hall, and see the intellectuals falling all over themselves to praise it.

it's even more difficult with art. whereas most people can tell if a musical piece has the right pitch, tone, etc, and thusly sounds "good," there is no way to apply those standards to paintings, sculptures, etc. so the fact that this guy sells million dollar paintings, frankly doesn't mean sh** to me. i saw a painting in the tate where a guy had painted "buy me" in black letters on a canvas, cut it up, mixed up the pieces, glued them together...and sold it originally for several hundreds of thousands of dollars.

hmmm...not exactly. i can walk up to a marijuana plant, pick off a bud, pop it in my pipe, and smoke it.

if i select a seed pod from a poppy plant, i'd be smoking opium, not heroin.

making heroin from the flower requires some sort of rudimentary lab. you need a stove, and a few chemicals. not to mention that you have to prepare the opium by mixing it with lime and cooking it.

not entirely the same thing as pot.

"Cold temperatures, a small number of predators, high levels of oxygen in the sea water and even longevity could explain the size of some specimens..."

my first thought there was "absence of resort hotels" could explain the size of the specimans. i shudder to think of what the oceans were like even a hundred years ago in comaprison to today.

i'm from south carolina, and i GLADLY signed this petition. moving the route a half-mile or so won't hurt anyone, and i feel that historical homes should be saved at all costs.