I like to worry about the future.

I've been meaning to post this Slate article from October for a while on Prenatal tests, genetics, and abortion by William Saletan, of whom I'm not a huge fan. I keep telling myself I'm going to update my ND Web site and put my bioperfectionism essay up there for some bed time reading, and that will be announced when it's ready...The convalescence period after my wisdom teeth extraction today may help towards that goal.

Speaking of the pursuit of technological utopia, I'm reading We by Yevgeny Zamyatin, which is generally regarded as the one of the trio of dystopias written in the first half of the Twentieth Century along with Brave New World and 1984. My favorite is still BNW, and so far We is coming in a close third. They're all interesting for each author's take on what he thought the best avenue to curtail freedom - Zamyatin is similar to Huxley in a view of a government taking power by eliminating the link between sex and reproduction and emptying it of any meaning. But we're not anywhere near that, are we?

While recovering, I'm watching South Carolina-Kentucky in the Liberty Bowl on ESPN360.com and for halftime they're doing a human interest on Georgia Head Coach Mark Richt who felt called by God to adopt a girl named Anya from Ukraine who suffers from a facial deformity called Proteus syndrome. In the documentary, she tells the ESPN reporter that "It doesn't matter what you look like on the outside, it's matter your heart is like on the inside." ....Amen. "For you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the children."