pissed

i was all ready to watch for the bible tells me so with t. tonight, only to find that it had ended its limited run yesterday. of course, when presented with the choice of watching that or eastern promises last tuesday, i chose the latter. dammit.

speaking of which, it exasperates me no idea that so much of humanity's effort is spent quarreling about the "morality" of being gay* -- i mean, it's just such an absolute no-brainer compared to the real ethical questions we're going to be facing in the next 10-20 years: what happens when we develop a reliable genetic test for psychopathy? is it really morally acceptable to continue farming animals the way we do? what happens when we're able to quantify consciousness? it's so frustrating that the task of convincing people of the obvious -- all men are equal, might is not right, and the arbiter of morality is certainly not you -- is such a sisyphean one that we're forced to spend our time piddling in the shallows, while great and truly worrying problems loom large on the horizon.

* i leave no further comment on this. click at your own risk, because i felt infuriated for the entire afternoon.