http://www.marshillaudio.org/pdf/documents/ChristianityCulture.pdf

"It is about ensuring that scientific data is never distorted or concealed to serve a political agenda - and that we make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology." President Obama, quoted in an AP article regarding his signing an executive order freeing up more embryonic stem cell lines for research purposes. Unfortunately it is too late for such high sounding rhetoric: scientific data is almost always manipulated to serve a political or ideological agenda. Another quote from the same article: "Promoting science 'is about letting scientists, like those here today, do their jobs, free from manipulation or coercion, and listening to what they tell us, even when its inconvenient - especially when its inconvenient,' Obama said." What about listening to the ethicists when they tell you that using embryos for research is destroying human life? That has evidently been found inconvenient, and no one has listened. The record does NOT support the idea that we listen to that which we find inconvenient.

Sunshine

Writing an entry here was on my "to-do" list but, unlike some other things also written there, it is getting done!! I think that I am writing this mostly for myself, as I can think of, at most, three people who will read it. I am listening to Brad Paisley's 5th Gear album. Good stuff. I got a late call to sub at LS today. I haven't been subbing much lately, but neither do I feel much pressure to do so. I am currently concentrating on finishing the dozen books that I have lying around my room before I no longer have time to read. I am doing a short term sub position which will start at the end of the month. I am sure that this will make me too busy to read anything.
It is Lent, in case you didn't notice. I have decided that for Lent I will abstain from doing everything that I never do anyway. In all seriousness, it seems to me that Lent should be seen as a time for doing things instead of not doing them. I think that everyone should spend more time just sitting still and thinking. "What the hell is the point?," while perhaps a rather flippant and irreverent question, seems also like it might be a good place to start...
The sun is shining outside. It can snow as much as it wants to as long as the sun is shining. A stanza in anticipation of spring:
"For winter's rains and ruins are over,

And all the season of snows and sins;

The days dividing lover and lover,

The light that loses, the night that wins;

And time remembered is grief forgotten,

And frosts are slain and flowers begotten,

And in green underwood and cover

Blossom by blossom the spring begins." -Swinburne