Life as an Extreme Sport

Author: Kelly

Another Step Towards Equal

Politics


Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire signed into law Saturday a measure to create domestic partnerships, giving gay and lesbian couples some of the same rights that come with marriage.

The law creates a domestic partnership registry and provides enhanced rights for same-sex couples, including hospital visitation rights, the ability to authorize autopsies and organ donations and inheritance rights when there is no will.

“It offers the hope that one day, all lesbian and gay families will be treated truly equal under the law,” said state Sen. Ed Murray, who is one of five openly gay lawmakers in the Legislature.

what year is it, again?

Bioethics

You can download Web information now about what your genes mean or how much exercise you should undertake if you have a particular gene. By 2004 those same websites will upload information from the genetic samples stored in your pocket gene analyzer and return customized information about the relationships between your genes and your current health.

Oh, really? Apparently I slept through this bit of 2004. (That was three years ago, right? Just checking.)

I admit, I mock. But ya gotta admit, it’s funny. (And yes, I accept my fate for this…)

Hollywood, Health & Society

Bioethics

I keep telling people this is a big issue, but sometimes I feel like no one is listening. (Except the reporters who’re obviously reading my brainwaves, or something.)

The solution is to just finish the preliminary research I’ve done, and write the damned paper, and figure out who to send it to for publication. And really, I’m sort of in a great place for help with that, so maybe I really should get off my ass and do it.

For some reason, though, it’s sort of intimidating to take on a large project on my own and just because. I realize that makes little sense; I think part of it is because I now have to create the constraints, instead of having them handed to me.

Hmm.

Westboro Baptist is at it Again

life and living, Politics

Apparently Fred Phelps is getting lonely for media attention, as Westboro Baptist announced, mere hours after the VTech shootings, that they were going to protest the funerals of the victims.

Phelps’ daughter, Shirley Phelps-Roper, said the Virginia Tech teachers and students who died on Monday brought their fate upon themselves by not being true Christians.

“The evidence is they were not Christian. God does not do that to his servants,” Phelps-Roper said. “You don’t need to look any further for evidence those people are in hell.”

Cho Seung-Hui, the Virginia Tech student responsible for the killings who took his own life after the shootings, was sent by God to punish those he killed, and America as a whole, for moral decline, said Phelps-Roper, while adding that she believes Cho is also in hell for violating God’s commandment to not kill.

“He is in hell,” Phelps-Roper said. “But he was also fulfilling the word of God.”

What a charming, charming group of people.