A life for a life

Excellent article dealing with cloning and those people who are influencing the debate. I'm resolutely against creating embryos for medical research, and I'll be very interested to see whether Gov. Romney is for real or simply sees a political edge in taking this position.

The Wisdom of Russia

Here is an enlightening quote from Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking to President Bush in response to President Bush's criticism of Russia's freedom of the press (From Newsweek):

"We didn't criticize you when you fired those reporters at CBS."

Is he joking? I call this enlightening because I now understand a little clearer where Russia stands on this issue and how deeply entrenched the corruption of their press is. I'm not the most informed person when it comes to Russia, but I had assumed a higher level of understanding of the world around them on their part. And I had assumed they had atleast a minimal desire to move closer to a free country. This little glimpse into their thinking reveals to me that they are so far from having a free, uncorrupt press that they cannot even comprehend a system that is not so. Maybe that is harsh. Perhaps their lack of experience with a free system simply blinds them to the reality that is our free press. They take the few examples of corruption (most recently President Bush's foray into journalism) and assume that is characteristic of the true nature of our system. Thankfully they are wrong, and the fact that the heat is on President Bush and his columnists shows it.

Dark Matter

An extremely interesting scientific discovery, but I found the comments on Slashdot much more entertaining.

Mazda Miata

Autoblog has the new Mazda Miata. It looks like I'm still too big to fit in my favorite go kart with airbags.

First update, and is it ever lame.

Since I can't seem to get anything groundbreaking, or even remotely interesting, in my head to write about I'm moving ahead with my first update regardless of the consequences.

Best bumper sticker I saw this week:

A woman's place is in the House, and the Senate.

Yes, feel free to pat yourself on the back if you saw this and chuckled last year. I thought it was cute. This post is doubly lame because I didn't even actually see it. My wife told me about it.