Monthly Archive for December, 2006

Taking tailgating at a football game to a whole new level.

This is nuts

‘Designer’ babies with made-to-order defects?

Creating made-to-order babies with genetic defects would seem to be an ethical minefield, but to some parents with disabilities — say, deafness or dwarfism — it just means making babies like them.

Cara Reynolds of Collingswood, N.J., who considered embryo screening but now plans to adopt a dwarf baby, is outraged by the criticism.

“You cannot tell me that I cannot have a child who’s going to look like me,” Reynolds said. “It’s just unbelievably presumptuous and they’re playing God.”

Dwarf parents

You Park Like An Asshole.

See who all has turned down the Alabama football coaching job. Here’s the list. All candidates that turned it down are pictured with their hands raised. It’s quite a long list, so be paitient.