Thursday, June 27, 2002

The Price of Freedom

The mom is still hospitalized, but may be released tomorrow. (Yeah!)

So I have not been online much, but here is the fruit of my limited surfing...

Time has a short article on the LA egg bank.

It looks like eight grand is the price of reproductive freedom.

I'll be 32 in November, so I have a few years for the techniques and percentages to improve.

I'd also rather have a complete ovary removed and stored than deal with hormone shots. I wonder if its more feasible than the egg harvesting?

Looking at the clinic's web site, the doctor who is pushing the envelope, Thomas Kim, established the IVF program at Balboa for the Navy... interesting.

For those not familiar with my fascination with egg banks, here are the background Bohica links:

Resurrecting the Biological Clock

A Brave New World

Other than that -- I feel badly for Martha. Don't even think this "stock scandal" would be as big of a media focus if she was a he. Our society loves to hate successful women. I found an editorial over at the NY Times that lays it out -- not quite how I would say it, but the spirit is in the right place.

In Salon is a cute take on Martha's sexuality...

Martha Stewart Loving

Choice paragraph:

Anyone who loves the sensual things she does must love romantic passion too. I wonder if she thinks about rolling around on her 300-count sheets while she's ironing them? I wonder if, when she's whipping her cream by hand, she imagines spreading it on some man's thighs and licking it off? I wonder if she has ever gone skinny-dipping in her pool with some hot hunk of a gardener she's hired to trim her hedges -- if you know what I mean.

And lastly -- three cheers for the 9th circuit and double that for Dr. Michael A. Newdow, M.D., J.D. I emphasize his credentials because all of the news lackeys I saw interviewing him this morning, in addition to looking like verbally challenged idiots in comparison to him -- seemed unable to accord him the respect he deserves. One CNN punk in particular pointedly called him Michael... the rest were not so egregious, but not a one addressed him as Dr. Newdow.

I am rooting for him. If "Under god" was a meaningless deism, this ruling would not have provoked the extreme and childish reactions it has so far.

And yes, I think "In God We Trust" doesn't belong on the currency or "So help me God" in oaths of office. Just as pre-meal prayer has no place at the Naval Academy.

posted by Bohica at 8:48 PM