Burning Ones

Leading scientists have urged peers not to block the use of human-animal hybrid embryos for research.

Quite frankly, this is just scary. I recently picked a book called Next by Michael Crichton. It wasn’t any good and I decided to sell it or donate it to a library about mid way in, mainly due to it’s high sexual content and pervasive language issues. Just not something that I particularly wanted to be pumping into my brain. The reason I mention it in this context is because the book is all about our genetic world and, to be honest, it freaked me out a little bit. I just had no idea the ramifications of Genetic research. Now I understand, mind you, that Next is a work of fiction, but at the same time it was built around various true reports and research that have come out recently. It was really those that caught my eye most. It’s scary what the scientific community is doing in the name of research.

So, all that being said, I want to emphatically declare that I am against this type of research. I feel it is too unnatural and would be incredibly dangerous if it continued. We have to reign our egos in somehow and just accept that mankind should have some limits.

This is a really great move on MySpace’s part. It’s wonderful that they chose to cooperate with it.

Now, if we could only get people to just stop using MySpace altogether… :)

This article over there at the BBC is pretty encouraging.  I did think it was a mistake by the US and the Iraqis when the Baathists were removed from power and immediately repressed.  It just followed the old Stages of Revolution where the Moderates seize power, then the extremists take over and become worse than the former oppressors, and then the extremely repressed people rise up and throw down the new repressors.  Without a break in this cycle, revolution and war are endless.  So, it’s good to see them attempting offer some sort of an olive branch.

I’m all for this raise in the gas tax.  Anything that will make the cost of transportation via gas powered vehicles too hard to bear in this country is a good thing.  It will force our country to reassess how it faces life.  If we can’t even afford to all drive our SUVs and Minivans and cars alone, how could we remain so ruggedly individualistic.  The country needs this.

Well, maybe that’s extreme…  Oh well :)