Nooze, starting with: Happy Birthday, Louise!

[elfs]

A very special happy birthday to Louise Joy Brown, who turns 25 today, despite the united efforts of the Catholic Church and two members of George W. Bush's "Bioethics Panel" to prevent her from being born.

Who the hell is Louise Joy Brown?

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A witch in Richmond, has sued her local city government for the right to lead opening council prayers. The council is arguing that it has the right to restrict prayers to those traditions "tacitly acknowledged and widely held," i.e. Christianity.

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The Gulfport, Mississippi, city council has voted to condemn the U.S. Supreme Court for the Lawrence v. Texas ruling. The councilman who introduced the proposal is either a hoot or infuriating, depending upon your mood.

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shemayazi take note: biologists have isolated a compound that both increases insulin production and improves glucose sensitivity at the same time. Although the research has only been on mice (doncha just hate that phrase?) it shows promise in humans.

Comments

[lovingboth]

Erm, Louise Brown was conceived and born in the UK, so unless Bush has been importing people from here to serve on his bioethics panel, they'd have been totally unable to stop anything.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

When it comes to "internationally acclaimed experts," nationality rarely stops them from spouting their heads off. The Catholic Church actually imported Leon Kass, specifically, during the IVF debates 25 years ago, to give a detailed report to Parliament about how IVF was "the beginning of the slippery slope to Huxley's Brave New World."

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

Good song - I got into BOA via Lain and ended up buying a few import discs, and then their US disc even though it was a rearrangement of tracks from the others.

[(Anonymous)]

Just had an interesting experience.

The link to the witch-opening-with-prayer story has consistently failed to work for me over the past couple of days.

I went to Google and typed in "witch Richmond council prayers", sans quotes.

The top result? This same LiveJournal entry.

Fortunately the second result was another story on the subject, but I still thought it was interesting.