New Channel101 series CATLANDS is fantastic. I always love the really far-right-field series, the ones that run themselves off the rails after five episodes, so it’s exciting to see a new James Dean.
Always remember: that which does not kill you makes you stronger. Until it does eventually kill you.
I once hosted an Israeli CouchSurfer who had just gotten out of her IDF service. She told us the Israeli version of the saying: “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. What does kill you makes your mother stronger.”
But a Utah-based company, Myriad Genetics, claims more than that. It claims to own the rights to any test for the presence of the two critical genes associated with breast cancer, and it has ruthlessly enforced that right, though their test is inferior to one that Yale University was willing to provide at much lower cost. The consequences have been tragic: Thorough, affordable testing that identifies high-risk patients saves lives. Blocking such testing costs lives. Myriad is a true example of an American corporation for which profit trumps all other values, including the value of human life itself.
“Life is a marathon, not a sprint. But it’s the sort of marathon where you have to sprint.”
— David O’Doherty performing “Life” on You Made It Weird with Pete Holms