My plan to save the world

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angevin2 has put up a voice post in which she sings a ballad about Daphne and Apollo, sounding very lovely I may add. It has inspired me to come up with a Plan To Save The Planet.

For those whose mythology is patchy, the god Apollo took a fancy to Daphne but she wasn't interested. He pursued her, she ran away, and since he was catching up and she was getting desperate, she called to the virgin goddess Artemis for help. Artemis obligingly turned her into a bay laurel tree.

If we changed it around and made it the would-be-rapist who turned into the tree, to make it fairer, and this happened every time someone tried to commit a rape, think how great it would be. There would be fewer humans, nicer humans, and lots more trees, thus solving in one stroke the problems of overpopulation and deforestation.

In other news, mirrorshard has pointed me to the latest silliness from the evangelical movement, with further eloquence here and here. I'll bet you that somewhere there is a kinky club where people are wearing those t-shirts in not quite the spirit they were meant to be worn. EX-HYPOCRITE is deliciously ironic all on its own, anyway, and EX-FORNICATOR has such a fine ring to it. Which reminds me that "fornicator" comes from the Latin for "brothel", which in turns comes from the Latin "fornix", meaning "arch", as in prostitutes lurking in doorways. (Study Juvenal at A-level and you get to learn all about where the prostitutes of different nationalities hung out in ancient Rome.) If language had developed a bit differently, "fornicator" could mean "builder" today.