Only a Possibility

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Well, that was fun. Literature (along with Chemistry) was my favorite class in High School. Some other favorite poems were, The Raven, The Ancient Mariner, (etc)

I think it's best to leave poor Allah et alli alone for a while, but offhand I don't have a substitute theme. I am 'working' (occasionally phantasizing) on an encounter with 'representatives of the psychological sciences.' Eheh. I have in mind some of the folks at Kaiser Permanente with whom I have had the bad luck to come into contact. But it would be a bit premature to do it now.

The big news of the day is about Bill Frist's change of heart regarding stem cell research. I like the idea. I like it not because I think I will eventually benefit - I doubt that - but because it seems to me to be the right course of action. In my view all life is 'equal' and there is nothing special about human life given the current context (a human-dominated planet which is losing species at an alarming rate). To me an embryo is only a possibility and a human embryo is only another human possibility. The idea of using 'the possible' to benefit 'the actual' is appealing.

Hmm. Could this be a subject for another interview with WHTZSNM? Let's try it.