what may or may not be hard reality

Quote of the Day (or you know, yesterday):

"She is like everything I’m not: Jamie[sic] Murray, you complete me! [Laughing.] She goes down as one of my top three colleagues ever. Renee being the other, and I’m not going to say who the other was."

"Honestly, if I was going to be gay, that’s who I’d marry: Jamie[sic] Murray."

~Lucy Lawless in yesterday's interview with AfterEllen. Those are the highlights, but the whole thing is pretty awesome.

I'm soooo setting myself up to be massively disappointed by Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. My expectations are completely out of control. But I almost don't care. This is much too exciting. Lucy! and Jaime! and Lucy! and and and! And it tickles my little shippy heart that they seem to adore each other off screen as well... *awww* And even if TBTP does *everything* wrong with the characters, at least they'll be gorgeous while it's happening...

( ...which is proved over and over by the bunch of random screen caps from the promos under here. )

I'm studying for my Evolution 301 final, and I meant to make a ranting post about how people who deny science and evolution frighten me more than... pretty much anything else. There are a great many things in the worl that disturb, distress, sadden, anger, shock me, etc etc etc, but there are few things that outright frighten me the way powerful people who deny the things that I trust to be the foundation of all life on this planet do. And the fact that I know of no comprehensive way to argue for it, the fact that any argument I make can be met with the same and just a switch of the words, that I'm sure they feel exactly the same way about me, that's the most frightening part of all. That if you can have it presented to you, proof by proof, and still not understand it to be (relative*) truth, that that makes me paralyzingly frightened for the future of the human race.

*Futuyma Evolution 2nd ed. p. 13-14, Ethics, Religion, and Evolution and Evolution as Fact and Theory

Disclaimer: I'm a Christian. A very liberal Christian, but a Christian just the same. So is my mother, who is a research biologist. I see no conflict of interest.

However, the thinking scientific feminist part of my brain was railroaded by this video and the primal part of my brain took over and is flailing incoherently at its hawtness.