News from the other side of the pond

The British government is debating whether or not human/rabbit hybrid stem cells are ok to create. I guess you use a rabbit embryo and create a stem cell from it with human cells. Folks are a little worried about the implications. Babies with big rabbit ears being the obvious place to start worrying.

The Chester zoo in Northwest England has a female Komodo dragon named Flora who laid fertile eggs just before the first of the year. Here's the thing about Flora. She's a virgin. And they checked and she's the sole parent of the eggs. It's not the first time it's happened in England, either. Sungai, of the London zoo, had babies all by herself last April. Sister dragons are doing it for themselves, I guess.



That's Flora.

In other news out of England, if you're feeling low and bleak, I would not recommend you go to Children of Men. It doesn't matter if you have good Mexican food before you go to see it. It will still be bleak and depressing. It's a good movie, just not an uplifting one. Someone in Children of Men should have talked to those two Komodos or to the rabbit people. The "no babies" premise/problem would have been shot all to hell.

On this side of the world, 12 baseball writers didn't vote for Tony Gwynn to go into the Hall of Fame. Um, why? What about T.G. makes him anything other than a HOFer?

I like the Hall of Fame announcements because it always makes me feel like baseball is coming.

Speaking of sports and the U.K. Posh Beckham is coming to L.A. to play soccer err football err soccer for the Galaxy. It may now be time to move to San Francisco.

In a positive move, the first female Beefeater to guard the Tower of London will start in July. She doesn't have her uniform yet, but when she does, she'll look like a woman wearing this:



So, to outline this for you:

Rabbit babies
Virgin dragon babies
Bleak movie--no babies
Baseball
Beckham
Uniforms

Follow all that?

Cheers!