Designer Babies

There's something I watched on TV a while ago about scientists working to find a way to manipulate genes so that people could chose what kind of children they want to have. It IS an appealing thought. You can make sure your kids are beautiful, tall, smart...have dimples...whatever you want, but its kind of unethical. I'm one of those people who believe in only letting technology help us to a certain extent. When it comes to making babies, I think the natural process is best (hehe!) i.e. pick a hot spouse and hope the genes of your unattractive great-grandparent or daft cousin don't somehow manage to manifest themselves in your baby. In related news I heard that Kim Kardashian got married recently. Quite honestly I think if she had a baby by anyone (even his excellency the president. That is a disgusting thought though *shudder* ) the kid would have to be attractive but when I saw a picture of her husband...WHAT! Their children will not be accepted into the society. They will be outcasts. Too gorgeous for normal human beings to comprehend. Ok, enough with the hyperbole. There was a point to this story...other than to state that those two humans are genetically gifted to the point where its almost unfair. Its like they took a large portion of the world's prettiness and ate it, then left the rest of us to share. Unequally. Ah yes,the point. The point is, these are smart people. You want attractive babies, have them with an attractive person. Two pretty people cannot beget an ugly one (unless the father is not really the father, something which is apparently more common than we think).
Maybe in a few years they'll perfect the designer baby idea and we'll have a Hitler situation. Think about it. If they make it available to everyone it will at first obviously be expensive so the poor and the religiously-inclined will be left out of it. There will be a class of intellectually gifted and attractive people who control the world because they are also rich. How long will it take before they decide that they're better than everyone else and its world war 2 all over again (how does world domination keep finding its way into my posts???). Anyway, I'm not particularly bothered. I'll be dead by the time the 'beautiful ones' have grown up and taken over the world. I wonder if they'll find this post (the way we find hieroglyphics) and say that I was making a prophecy. People seem to love such crap. Though if they continue to read up to this point they might hunt down my descendants to pay for my insolence...hehe...I should stop talking now...

Of nails and nipples

You may have started reading this thinking its some raunchy story involving nudity and maybe some S&M. I'm sorry to disappoint you but as it is the holy month of Ramadhan I have no such story to share...

DISCLAIMER: I would like to state that I am in no way insinuating that I have such stories to tell during any other month of the year...and even if I did I wouldn't tell you :)

Anyway, I've been on this subject before but it was about the Tyrannosaurus Rex's devolution into a chicken, which by the way still cracks me up -excuse the pun (chicken,egg...cracking...get it?If you don't think that was funny you have a problem). Now I want to ask people who believe in evolution some questions. This has bothered me for quite a while... why do men have nipples? I seriously need to know. They have no visible function. Is it an aesthetic thing?Nipple-less men look weird?If no men had nipples it would be a common thing so WHY do men have nipples? Another thing. Should we have nails? Since we have knives and stuff and I highly doubt there are people still grasping onto tree barks for their survival (or whatever monkey-people did) so we should have very tiny or no nails. Except for women prone to violence. Those ones require long sharp nails and long hair preferably located in the middle of the head to allow their opponents to grab on and pull. They also require loud, high-pitched voices so as to scare off would-be opponents with a vast vocabulary of obscenities...I can totally be a narrator on National Geograpic...anyway. That is all for now, but I'll be back with more things to complain about soon (I hope).

Side bar: Saum Maqbul to my Muslim brothers and sisters and don't forget to watch out for Lailat-ul Qadr during the last 10 days. Masaalam.