Hold on Progressives, help is on the way!

In today’s Washington Post, writer Rick Weiss, in an article entitled Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Form may have documented the solution to all our problems. Scientists believe that in creating and growing synthetic DNA, they are on the brink of creating new life forms.

Scientists in Maryland have already built the world’s first entirely handcrafted chromosome …a large looping strand of DNA made from scratch in a laboratory, containing all the instructions a microbe needs to live and reproduce.

In time, progressives will not need to evangelize their message to others, but will instead be able to create additional progressives in their own image. With this capability, the left can select all the desired traits of the perfect progressive, draw the map, measure the ingredients of the recipe, combine the chemical components and presto …one more Progressive. When repeated a sufficient number of times, progressives become the majority, the progressive agenda will rule. This is fool-proof …remember those folks on the Right are squeamish about manipulating DNA.

…which side of the synthetic biology debate will get to call itself “pro-life?”

Though writer Weiss did not say so, I am hopeful that this engineering and manufacturing process can be carried a step further and allow for a pill, an injection a software change that will provide function change capability (PTF’s; Mod’s; Patches, etc.) to our current line of progressives and to our progressive leadership. This is an exciting time.

Mr. Weiss raises one issue that should concern us all.

Some experts are worried that a few maverick companies are already gaining monopoly control over the core “operating system” for artificial life and are poised to become the Microsoft of synthetic biology. That could stifle competition, they say, and place enormous power in a few people’s hands.

While some may have no problem with a monopoly or oligopoly-manufactured life-form, I will always be cognizant of that auto coming down the highway towards me that just may have a humanoid driver containing an operating system the equivalent of a biological Vista, WindowsXp, or the like. In this human form, a minor glitch or a catastrophic failure [crash] of the operating system requiring the following to restart: one finger in your ear, one up your nose and a kick in the ass from the left foot may not bode well for my chances of surviving a head-on crash with this manufactured dude.

The prospects of this comparable ear-nose-ass procedure, so similar to the alt-ctrl-del sequence required to reboot Microsoft’s software after a crash, scares the hell out of me.

We better do this before one of our Party members up and pledges support for McCain….Oops, too late.