Via the DC Morning e-mail (which you should sign up for right now), here’s the latest from our moral, ethical, and intellectual superiors:
UC Berkeley is adding something a little different this year in its welcome package — cotton swabs for a DNA sample.
The confidential process is being overseen by Jasper Rine, a campus professor of Genetics and Development Biology, who says the test results will help students make decisions about their diet and lifestyle.
Once the DNA sample is sent in and tested, it will show the student’s ability to tolerate alcohol, absorb folic acid and metabolize lactose.
Reminder: The city of San Francisco is boycotting the state of Arizona for reserving the right to ask people for a driver’s license. That’s the worst thing since Hitler. But asking for a sample of your genetic code is fine. It’s voluntary! And confidential! And, and, hey, it’s for your own good!
Don’t you want what’s best for the collective?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW8UlY8eXCkP.S. Berkeley council agrees to Arizona sanctions.
P.P.S. “But it’s voluntary!”, you cry. Yeah, lots of things are voluntary until suddenly they aren’t. It’s just funny how selective the outrage is. If Arizona announced that DNA swabs would be voluntary at the DMV, right now the set designers at SNL would be working on swastika-shaped cactii.