Return of the Thew!

As always, the demise of the Yankees was greatly exaggerated. Robinson Cano is shaping up nicely in his role, Jason Giambi is ummm, well, a gimp without the sauce but I admire his grit and effort, the pitching staff is now pitching the way they can. Yes, even Kevin Brown is pitching. Gadzooks people, it was only APRIL! Don't look now, but the Bronx Bombers are only 4.5 games back of the O's, in third place, only .5 games behind the Sawx. Woo Woo!

Tiger missed a cut, and the world didn't end. He was pissed, handled the miss with grace and dignity in his interview, then went off to rant and sulk and fume. He's earned it, let the man have his alone time.

Now on to the BIG stuff...

Stem cell research. I've got to admit, I'm in favor of it under certain conditions. We are talking about harvesting cells from discarded embryos left over after successful in vitro fert...so if they are going to be discarded, why not use them? With the donor's written permission perhaps?
I have to say that if my family had successful in vitro fert and they were just going to discard the embryos, then I would sign a permission slip to use them. There is SO much good that can be done with this research, I believe we should explore it. Will there be dirty abuses of the system - possibly; as a society today, if you can find a loophole to be dirty and illegal and screw people, someone generally finds it and exploits the common man. But that will be rare. Perhaps keep a few for future IVF, and donate the rest of the embryos? There is a solution, I have to admit I'm in favor of it, and have no moral ambiguity here. The cells would be harvested from a 5 day old blastocyst which, if discarded, isn't going to become a life anyway. So if they are going to be discarded or are signed away by the parents, I don't see the big deal.

Revenge of the Sith - date night with Mrs Thew coming soon.

The runaway bride - paying back upwards of $13K and is being charged with lying to authorities. Fitting. Score one for the law and common sense and accountability on this one. :)