everybody crowd around that glimmering, shiny-happy fun box tonight and cheer for the lakerz as they courageously fight (sometimes literally) the phoenix suns. it is their strong desire to achieve a feeling of personal awesomeness for their fans, and has nothing to do with -- in any way whatsoever -- their oil company ceo sized salaries, so don't even go there. so cheer them on! they can feel your enthusiasm through the television, it's been proven by science. no, really.
i'm just blogging for the sake of blogging. a brief digression from assembling my paper on the broad topic soon to be narrowed, of bioethics. do you guys have any thoughts? i think cloning seems pretty creepy. stem-cells... er, yikes. that one's been beaten to death by both sides of the argument, so maybe i'll look for something that could use some original thinking. bioethics.gov is a website by the president's commission on the topic of bioethics, with some tepidly interesting information from organ transplanting, to cloning for biomedical research (as opposed to cloning for making babies, as they have termed it), to literary references to these various areas of scientific endevours. i particularly was fascinated by an exerpt from jonathan swift's gulliver's travels used on the site, where gulliver in one of the strange lands he visits, there are rare occurances of people born immortal. while gulliver lets his mind embrace the idea of the seemingly limitless possibilities of everlasting earthly life, describing these seemingly fortunate individuals as those who "have their minds free and disengaged, without the weight and depression of spirits caused by the continual apprehension of death," he is soon set straight by the natives of the land who describe to him the terrible conditions of those unfortunate enough to live forever, watching as their health abandons them, while their friends arrive and decease like the flowers of spring. pretty heavy, interesting stuff.
just wasting time... better get back to work.
i hope y'all are doing well.
peace.
Now that's something to think about! Lakers, cloning, all in the same post. I will consult with some smart people and get back to you.
ReplyDeleteIn the mean time, Mexico beat Venezuela at the Rose Bowl yesterday. Now off to the World Cup--a sport where they actually include other countries in the world cup.
Peace.