Make ya twitch

Mark Walker over at Cyborg Democracy, a left-leaning transhumanist group, has penned a little missive stating the obvious: Marxism is not a viable solution unless we genetically re-engineer ourselves to be more like the kind of people Marx envisioned would inhabit his new world.

Whether his collective of New Soviet Men™ would be capable of competing with an inherently dynamic system made up of unmodifieds, or whether unmodifieds would simply be outlawed as ferals, he doesn't say.

Brainmangling!

This morning, while driving to work, I turned on the radio. It was tuned to NPR, and the first sentence out of the speakers was "Power windows are known to have killed 37 children in the past ten years."

My first thought was "Wow, I knew it wasn't considered one of Rush's better albums, but I didn't think it was that bad."