If a monkey is hungry but has his arms pinned, there’s not much he can do about it. Unless that monkey can control a nearby robotic arm with his brain.
And that’s exactly what the monkey in Andrew Schwartz‘s neurobiology lab at the University of Pittsburgh can do, feeding himself using a prosthetic arm controlled solely by his thoughts.
Alan Keyes never fails to disappoint. I look forward to him proposing the Federal Adoption Amendment whereby we prevent all of the children of donated sperm/eggs and all of the children who are adopted without a full family history, from copulating. I look forward to that except that he’s never going to actually get elected anywhere. Unfortunately. I want him to be an embarrassment on a bigger stage.
Keyes says incest awaits kids of gays:
October 17, 2004
BY CHERYL V. JACKSON Staff Reporter
U.S. Senate candidate Alan Keyes told a rally Saturday that incest was “inevitable” for children raised by gay couples because the children might not know both biological parents.
“If we do not know who the mother is, who the father is, without knowing all the brothers and sisters, incest becomes inevitable,” Keyes told the Marquette Park rally held to oppose same-sex
HoustonChronicle.com – Why abortion rate is up in Bush years:
What does this tell us? Economic policy and abortion are not separate issues; they form one moral imperative. Rhetoric is hollow, mere tinkling brass, without health care, insurance, jobs, child care and a living wage. Pro-life in deed, not merely in word, means we need a president who will do something about jobs, health insurance and support for mothers.
Interesting Op-ed column by a guy chose not to have an abortion after his wife contracted rubella during her first trimester. (I’m not implying it was only his choice.) His child is now legally blind and handicapped.
I found this interview with Tony Campolo to be interesting:
My purpose in writing the book was to communicate loud and clear that I felt that evangelical Christianity had been hijacked. When did it become anti-feminist? When did evangelical Christianity become anti-gay? When did it become supportive of capital punishment? Pro-war? When did it become so negative towards other religious groups?
