Brave New Babymaking: The Search for Sperm Donor 401

Breakpoint with Chuck Colson ^ | 5/31/2006 | Chuck Colson

[Mr. Silverback]

I'm just pointing out that if anybody wants to make an issue about this, it is a far lesser moral infraction than having an abortion.

When i first read that sentence, for some reason my brain rendered it as "moral infarction," and I'd just like to note that Moral Infarction would be a great name for a band. :-)

[Trillian]

I've read that this has happened before. I wish I had a link because I don't remember the outcome..
Insanity.

[Old_Mil]

Two adult siblings are generally forbidden from MARRYING, mating is a different matter, and while it's wrong and icky and all that other stuff it's really outside the state's acceptable list of powers.

If the married couple in question is willing to allow one partner to be involved in the birth of a child with someone outside the marriage they can. Again it's icky and wierd, but if that's their choice that's their choice and the state shouldn't be getting involved.

I'm certainly glad that you brought this issue up. Why should it be that sibling marriages are illegal? That is to say, why do we say they are "icky" and ban them? Let's set aside the genetics of the matter for a moment and say that a woman wants to marry her brother and is willing to get her tubes tied to eliminate the genetic problems in such a relationship. What then?

Hint...it's in Leviticus. Not far from that business about homosexuality being evil and sinful. You know what else? Curiously, the issue of sibling marriages is mentioned nowhere in the New Testament, so all our ideas about it being "icky" come from that nasty old testament fire and brimstone God who nuked the gays in Sodom.

Something to think about.

[Mr. Silverback]

Then a "direct deposit" service....

"You don't need to involve a hogh-priced fertility doctor and his syringe! Cut out the middleman! I'll show up at your door and perform the service free of charge as many times as necessary."

[Mr. Silverback]

("5 Minute Penalty for #40, Ann Theresa Calvello!" - RIP 1929-2006)

Ever heard the Jim Croce song "Roller Derby Queen?"

[newguy357]

Having a world where these bred-for-brain-and-body MIT types cannot be sure that they are not marrying their half sister/brother because of anoymous sperm donations and no true family tree is also a problem.

As an MIT employee I can assure you that there are few, if any, bodies here worth looking at....

[SoothingDave]

She was five foot six and two fifteen
A bleached-blonde mama with a streak of mean
She knew how to knuckle and she knew how to scuffle and fight
And the roller derby program said
That she was built like a 'frigerator with a head
Her fans call her "Tuffy" but all her buddies called her "Spike"

[Mr. Silverback]

I love that song...especially the line about her being "built like a 'frigerator with a head."

He was a master, too bad he went so young.

[Dr._Joseph_Warren]

Yeah, right.....I've got one of those "genetic reductionisms" for a niece......believe me.....it's NOT an improvement.....even though her "mother" got to go shopping through a book to pick the hair color, eye color, race, etc. of the sperm donor.....she couldn't pick the Intelligence Level, however.....or the strength of the breeding "stock." I wouldn't call it a "triumph."

Estimated improvement is based on average results.

Your mileage may vary...

;)

[SoothingDave]

Such a cast of characters he introduced us to. Rapid Roy the stock car boy, Leroy Brown, and the Jim you don't mess around with.

My favorite is "Box #10." I've got an old LP of his that I drag out every once in a while.

SD

[Mr. Silverback]

Rapid Roy, that stock car boy, he's too much to believe. :-) And Box #10 is a great song.

I've been a fan since I was a kid because my Dad loved his stuff. I've got a two CD set that they put out for his 50th birthday that has mare than half of everything he ever recorded--all three mainstream albums and some of the stuff he recorded with his wife before he hit it big.

Have you ever heard his song "Dreamin' Again"? It's one of the most beautiful love songs I've ever heard, and the sense of loss is incredible. That's one of the reasons I respect him so much as a writer--here's a guy who's been happily married for years and he writes this song that sounds like he just had the love of his life rip his heart out of his chest the day before. he was really good at putting himself in other people's shoes. "Don't you know i had a dream last night, and everything was still..."

His first album, Facets, has a cover of Gordon Lightfoot's "Steel Rail Blues" on it. I wonder what that sounds like.

[Mr. Silverback]

Oh, additional fact:

I looked up the info on his air crash. Turned out the pilot had undiagnosed coronary disease and ran almost three miles from the hotel to the airport. A massive heart attack occurrred during climbout. The day the music died, part II.

[fromscratchmom]

I guess I used the word, 'rant', incorrectly. My apologies. I often think of it with a different connotation, as in: "I enjoy a good rant from time to time." (can't tell you who said that, I don't remember); but it comes to mind for me like famous quotes come to most folks.

[cpforlife.org]

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[OldPossum]

the man who fathered the babies of Leann Mischel and Carla Schouten, and of nine other women, is 6-foot-4, good at sports, has a master’s degree, and is of German descent...

Hitler would be proud.

[HitmanLV]

Great tune!

[Mr. Silverback]

I've been trying to get Doctor Demento to play it. i think it should be shared with the world. :-)

[HitmanLV]

Memorable tune! I wish Roller Derby would come back! ;-)

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