Hey World, Look at (Little) Me!

Based solely on the out-of-control myspace-like confabulance of painful color and graphic contrasts making up his website  maybe George Mason economics professor Bryan Caplan shouldn't even have been allowed to have twins. But there isn't (and shouldn't be) any law that the graphically-challenged can't be great fathers.

So, if at least in theory and practice Caplan could be a great father, exactly why is he creating such a great storm with the to-date hypothetical musing that he wants to clone himself and, truly literally, raise himself up by his bootstraps?

Dog Days

Ladies and gentleman, we are sniffing around in a "brave" new world. Snuffy done up and got two bitches pregnant.

The progenitor is an afghan (talibark?) hound, also the world's first cloned dog, according to the Korean scientific husbandriers who brought him to be and pimped for him. Heading up the effort that first brought Snuffy (an acronym for Seoul National Univesity puppy) is out-of-favor researcher Hwang Woo-Suk, who has continued in animals after he got kicked out of people in a stem cell research scandal.

So, it is not unlikely we'll be cloning people dads soon, too. Maybe they'll all be like the average Australian dad with his 2.3 kids — cloning can have consequences?