Mark Twain:
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
Helen Keller:
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next.
G. K. Chesterton:
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
And some big news in change today is this, from Scientific American … and all over the news … that President Obama has unfettered science and lifted the BushBan on stem-cell research.
The man who has given the world hope for the first time in eight years has now made the impossible possible for millions of people suffering from a range of horrors.
Even bigger than the potential for this specific line of research, however, is this:
Obama today also ordered the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to “restor[e] scientific integrity to government decision making.”
Whadaya know … smart people in charge again.
A collection of my short stories:
I'm in this one, too ...
And I'm in here, as well ...
Paradise Preoccupied 
Actually, the US lost scientists to Canada over the last 8 years, where that research was allowed. Now we’ll see if they come home. It probably will depend on funding.
Lisa
I am glad he is making federal funds available for stem cell research. I support that. My uncle died from Parkinsons just before Christmas.
I have to admit, though, the phrase “harvesting from embryonic stem cells” just makes me uncomfortable. I shudder when I hear the details of the research…