So long, Dolly. The Roslin Institute announced today that Dolly the sheep — the first cloned mammal — has been put to death after being diagnosed with a progressive lung disease. Although she was only 6 years old, she’d been cloned from a 6-year old sheep and she seemed to be exhibiting many of the symptoms of an 11 or 12 year animal. Nature is a funny thing.
From one sheep to another…
February 14th, 2003 — the animal kingdom
Don’t herd this cat…
February 14th, 2003 — impolite company
So, Instapundit is probably the best known of the bloggers, but it’s still a little presumptuous of Glenn Reynolds to claim, as he does in this Boston Globe article that, although reaching consensus in the blogosphere:
…is like herding cats …most everybody open to persuasion has been largely persuaded by Colin Powell. There are lefty and libertarian bloggers who are against it, of course, but there are far more bloggers who are pro-war than the reverse.
On what is Glenn basing his statement? (He phrases it as a statement of fact, not as opinion.) Blogger is reporting that as of January 6, it had registered over 1,000,000 users. Then there’s Movable Type, Slash, LiveJournal, and who-knows-how-many other systems and sites. To claim any commonality among this group is ridiculous, and for the reporter not to note the bias of his source is unprofessional.
[Via Roger Ailes]
