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Column on cloning
offers ‘trite little remarks’
Well, well, what is all the rage these
days? It appears to be nonsensical commentary. What fun!
And
what better topic to debate in this wonderful fashion than cloning?
Yes
indeed, I must say that Kristin Delorantis’ commentary in Friday’s
TCU Daily Skiff made me laugh.
What
an opening line. Kristin, you are a comedic genius: “Cloning
non-living things is one thing. Cloning humans, however, is another.”
The
satire present in this statement is hilarious. I would like to see
more funny stuff like this in the Skiff more often. To take an issue
like cloning and offer such trite little remarks really made my
day. Also, Kristin, the reference to the inability to clone a human
soul was great. Especially your closing line, “It is ridiculous
that scientists even consider attempting to do so.”
The
comedic irony is great. It’s all the funnier because such a
thing has never happened and is not planned. For your great comic
sense, Kristin, you get thumbs up from me.
—Gerald
Dudley,
sophomore theater major
Columnist
presents wrong views, embarrasses himself
Tim Dragga’s Wednesday commentary
stated, “President Bush’s ‘war-shtick’ got old
months ago.”
“
… They’ve managed to create a vague and faceless enemy
that can be used as a point of demagoguery to pull the populace
together and rally support for domestic issues. It’s genius
for sure, but it’s impossible to forget that it’s little
more than a political move.”
The
opposite is true. I suggest Mr. Dragga quickly change the example
to, say, the recent Zimbabwean election:“And
as far as Bush’s comments about the recent Zimbabwean election:
‘We do not recognize the outcome of the election because we
think it’s flawed.’ All I can do is laugh at the hysterical
irony, especially since the kind of election irregularities of which
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is being accused are exactly
what got Bush into office in the first place.”
Whoops.
The opposite is true again. Now, may I suggest another quick change
of example to, say, teeny-bopper, pop groups. Ah, at last Mr. Dragga’s
expertise is more in evidence. Though he does seem to have a problem
with the capitalism that pays for his education and his right to
embarrass himself and the political science department.
Finally
for reasons of his own, Mr. Dragga interjects an ad homonym, non
sequitur to his topic:“One of the lessons all those old Reaganites
should have learned from South American demagogues during their
various attempts to overthrow them is that nationalism is the last
refuge of the unscrupulous.”
Once
again the opposite is true: Reagan wrote in his diary, “A few
days after the inauguration, our intelligence agents obtained firm
and incontrovertible evidence that the Marxist government of Nicaragua
was transferring hundreds of tons of Soviet arms from Cuba to rebel
groups in El Salvador. Although El Salvador was the immediate target,
the evidence showed that the Soviets and Fidel Castro were targeting
all of Central America for a communist takeover. El Salvador and
Nicaragua were only a down payment. Honduras, Guatemala, and Costa
Rica were next, and then would come Mexico.
“The
plans had been in the archives of Communism for a long time. I had
been told that Lenin once said, ‘First, we will take Eastern
Europe, then we will organize the hordes of Asia . . . then we will
move on to Latin America; once we have Latin America, we won’t
have to take the United States, the last bastion of capitalism,
because it will fall into our outstretched hands like overripe fruit.’”
Much
to Mr. Dragga’s apparent chagrin, today only Cuba remains communist
in the Western Hemisphere.
—Robert
P. Kelso,
TCU alumnus
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