Weet. I succesfully removed Webhancer from my computer last night. Take that, spyware! I've had it on my computer for a year or two. Afraid to delete it because it supposedly messes with your internet connection. But Adaware took care of it like a dream. And my computer is no longer webhanced.

We had a family visit today. Motherbrother Bent and his new wife. And their kids. I had been warned that they would come around 1 pm and stay for an hour or so. They came around 2 pm and stayed all day. Almost.

I retreated to my room and worked on my sleeping. Much better than entertaining family visitors. Family is just strangers you've never met.

It hasn't snowed. It has rained instead. And according to the weather forecast that is how it will be for a while.

And meanwhile scientists have apparently cloned the first human baby. Or actually they cloned the mother, right? The baby is the clone, so they didn't clone the baby... or whatever. We should all be terrified. George Lucas's bleak vision of the future is coming true. Attack of the Clones anyone?

It does mean that my plan to clone myself and let the clone live my life while I sit in my room and do nothing has become a lot more plausible.

Seriously though, I don't understand why people are shocked at the prospect of cloning. They must not get MTV...

I was just looking at the BBC news site to read about the clone and I caught the "Chechnya suicide bombs kill 46" headline. Merry fucking christmas. Anyway, I wonder if in the future there will be cloned suicide bombers. Nice and easy. Just get a clone and raise him in the basement. Attack of the Clones indeed. Unless of course we've all been wiped out by nuclear weapons by then.

The company that claims to have done the cloning is called "Clonaid". I think that's reason enough to outlaw them.

"Clonaid is linked to a sect called the Raelians, whose founder Claude Vorihon, describes himself as a prophet and calls himself Rael". Obviously no reason to be worried here.

Well, until it's all proven I guess we can look at it as comic relief. And get back to bombing each other.

And then there is the priest who thinks that fox hunting is a good way to "cull a pest". Yeah, and the fact that you get to ride on a horse and blow a horn and hunt down and kill the fox is just an unexpected bonus. It's really all in nature's best interest of course. And the foxes don't suffer. Sure. I mean when you get to a point where you have a priest on telly saying that god would be happy with fox hunting... you just have to wonder what god is thinking. She must be turning in her grave.

But enough blasphemy.

I'm going to bed. Tomorrow on Plume: More shocking and profane blasphemy coupled with bleak and depressing tales of the future and even more sensationalism! Don't forget to watch.

(Oh god. I just saw "Rael" on tv. They're going to use cloning to get eternal life. God I wish my diary had a soundtrack. The possibilites are endless...)

np: new order & billy corgan - (crystal 010805)