I picture Glen Beck in retirement like this:

If by using mustard seeds and salt as obscure euphemisms for things counts, then yes, then "juice of my pomegranate" is an excellent poetic reference to oral.

Ooo, I'd love to use that in conversations with my in-laws. Book and verse number, please!

Whelp, now that us Normals know about this trend, it will officially not be cool anymore. Hence, men can stop doing it. Please, please stop doing it.

I know a group he should join:

Agreed, and I don't even think Playboy is a very good example of the type of porn I'm considering similar. But I do think addressing the major problem (the devaluing and lack of agency) could potentially injure a whole mess of birds with one stone.

I wore basically these to my abortion:

Granted that this legislative effort completely misses the point and is way, way distracting and unproductive. And also granted that I'm all about some consensual, empowering porn of whatever variety floats each person's individual boat.

There's also the lovely variation: "We already have one"

Bet it sounded good in whatever committee meeting decided to try it, though. Especially if that committee met off-site.

Strictly monitored tests of the procedure are the industry standard, yes? I'm not objecting to the research, I'm merely objecting to the "coming soon to a theater near you" attitude of the media reports. It tends to get people's hopes up and promise things beyond the scope of the research.

Too true! That they think they're original cracks me up, though.

I totally agree that scientific advances are exciting and not to be squashed. I just think additional longitudinal testing is needed to see if the results of this technique outperform traditional natural selection. We just can't know at this time how this will affect a fully-grown human resulting from this sort of…

How these girls turn out:

True, it's not modifying the chromosomes, it's transferring the first mom's nucleus, including the chromosomes, to the second mom's egg (which has had it's nucleus removed). Theoretically, it could work to replace my hypothetically damaged nucleus with a healthy one, just as well as it works to replace someone's…

Weird, yes. But I'm surprised this is the first time someone thought of this. And it's strangely appropriate for a show about politics, I guess.

I think this would be more like "engineered selection," as it only seems to be replacing some of the egg's material, not all of the contents, which can't happen without interference. Natural selection is what happened when I couldn't carry my baby to term, a natural combination of genes.

Ah, I see. That does make sense.

Maybe they could guarantee the fish died of natural causes in the arms (fins?) of their loved ones before being turned into fertilizer? Or better yet, they could just use fish feces or waste products from fish farms. I hear that makes a decent fertilizer, and then just the vegans would object.