Poor, poor Rizzo's wait is finally at an end.

Rizzo, my rat, cannot walk. For those of you that know him, you know he's struggled with jeers and laughs from all the other rats about his little rat wheelchair.

Now he can walk on his own...

While I'm joking about the rat, huge leaps forward in science are no laughing matter. I find this stuff genuinely exciting. I can't wait for the anti-corporate/environmental/animal-rights movement (they're adorable when they're being righteous) and fundamentalists to meet each other outside the research firm that's developing this technology. I want a front-row seat to see the look of absolute horror on all their collective mugs when they realize they stand on the same side of the caveman issue.
They're both scared of fire. One group is scared because the sky spirits told them to be scared, the other group is scared largely because they don't understand it...I'm splitting hairs, really.
I guess my greater fear is that both of these groups don't seem to be waning at all. If anything, they're either growing or getting better publicists firms.
It's entirely possible I'm simply reading more about these groups because I'm 1)reading more or 2)both groups are in their death throws.

It's actually difficult for me to even see a bad side to these types of developments. Stem-cell fiascoes aside, how does anyone in the US with at least an 8th grade education in history not recognize how much better mankind is due to science?

Me: Hey hippie co-worker, they've made a new pesticide that just makes the crop taste bad for the bugs, isn't that cool?

Hippie co-worker: Man, that shit'll kill you.

Me: No, let me just do that for you.
(I bludgeon the hippie co-worker to death with his copy of The Complete Works of Marx).


If they won't learn by violence, will anything convince them?