tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post8650434037492736114..comments2008-09-11T20:25:47.408-07:00Wesley J. Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00087063614354714652wjs@wesleyjsmith.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post-13348957058251895162008-09-11T20:25:00.000-07:002008-09-11T20:25:00.000-07:00"Honey, it's not my fault, but my genes just expressed to produce an irresistible urge to pull a Lorena Bobbitt!"<BR/><BR/>How sad it is that this woman, who deserved to serve a lengthy jail sentence for the barbaric sexual mutilation of another human being (whether he was a real prince or not is immaterial), was instead rewarded by having her name turned into an eponym.bmmg39http://www.blogger.com/profile/07677426947413877513noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10381465.post-29389746295996252832008-09-10T20:05:00.000-07:002008-09-10T20:05:00.000-07:00I thought Michael Crichton made single-gene determinism look totally ridiculous in his novel "Next." <BR/><BR/>In social science circles, this idea usually turns into something along the lines of "people never do anything wrong, they just sometimes have needs that aren't being met." My then-girlfriend was told this by instructors at grad school, as part of instruction about how to understand supposedly misbehaving children. Not missing a beat, I told her that if she ever stopped by my place and walked in on me with 5 women that I wouldn't be doing anything WRONG, but just had needs that weren't being met. That didn't cut it, of course. (I kept my act together just enough for her to marry me.)Coophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12860040096175918524noreply@blogger.com