CALL ME SNAKE

It’s true, I normally don’t write posts based on fact. (How unoriginal?) But sometimes a story comes along that you’ve got to run with. And that’s the case with the following item I received by email the other day: It seems that folks at the University of Leicester in the UK want to communicate with ET’s. That, on its own, is not newsworthy except for the fact that they decided the message that would best represent mankind is an ad for Doritos that will be beamed into outer space. Sounds crazy, right? Well maybe not. After all, they say you are what you eat. And there’s no denying that we live in a junk food culture typified, I believe, by Doritos, so maybe somewhere in those orange-coated chips (in which Carl Sagan once said it might be possible to find the visage of Jesus Christ) the essence of humanity may be encapsulated. And if my grammar here seems deficient, that puts me squarely amidst the essence of humanity as well.