On Apr 1, 2008, at 5:52 PM, James Holton wrote:
I myself am a left-handed human, and I admit I do find some devious pleasure in this "reversal of fortunes". Perhaps it is some deep- seated suppressed anger from my days in kindergarten searching through piles of scissors for those few "lefty" ones that the oppressive "rightist" majority tossed into the pile to placate us.
Even the lefties are envied by the ambidextrous. We don't know what hand we are at something until we try to do it. In kindergarten I was branded as "left handed" because that's how I held a pencil. Unfortunately, for cutting, it was the opposite. I was much older when I realized why those left handed scissors they gave me never worked so well--I was trying to use them with the wrong dang hand.
If the ambidextrous had our way, the chirality of biological molecules would all be racemic. That would be true justice.
James -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics 611 Charles E. Young Dr. S. Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com
