That makes Vietnam worse in a sense, but you've got a good point. From a strategic standpoint a disaster in the Middle East trumps a disaster in Southeast Asia.

In 2006 it does. But during the Vietnam era, so close after WW II , and Korea, with China closed, and the cold war with the USSR, I'm not so sure that was the case, then.

Okay, to make up for exposing you to that:

Top 11 Best Geek Gifts

11. One year of "no computer questions" from everyone in your family
10. Private show by the remaining cast of Monty Python
9. Simultaneous devolution of all intelligent design proponents into chimpanzees
8. The Sword of a Thousand Truths
7. A "Nuke the RIAA from orbit" button (The type you press, not the type you wear)
6. Charles Babbage's brain in a jar of formaldehyde.
5. Life-sized, fully-functional Bender
4. Star Wars Holiday Special where Jar-Jar gets trampled to death by Santa's eight tiny Wookiees
3. Ten terabyte video iPod nano with expandable screen
2. Guided tour of Area 51
1. Customized Google logo on your birthday

There are several of these going on my list, I tell you what.

artificially manufacturing a child

Combining an egg and a sperm and having the baby develop in a womb is so not artificially manufacturing a child. Making a robotic infant with self-replicating nanobots that will grow the body structure over time and inserting an advanced neural net of molecular computers running a FreeBSD based OS with extensive self-learning algorithms in your garage is artificially manufacturing a child.

Have we learned nothing from the Cylons?

Making a robotic infant with self-replicating nanobots that will grow the body structure over time and inserting an advanced neural net of molecular computers running a FreeBSD based OS with extensive self-learning algorithms in your garage is artificially manufacturing a child.

....not that there's anything wrong with that.

I thought Gud was spending an awful lot of time in the garage recently...

She took a baby from a potential mom and dad. bottomline

And stuck it in her own womb!

Sheesh.

Go to your womb!

The 50 Greatest TV Commercials of the 80s.

Slowly but surely making my way through these. This commentary cracked me up:

12. Teddy Ruxpin’s Friend Grubby
Yup, animatronic animal toys were all the rage in the ’80s, creating an entire generation of kids with unbelievably fucked-up nightmares.

13. Snuggle fabric softener
What does it say about us as a society that we’re obviously completely obsessed with talking, evil-looking stuffed animals? This one should have found its way into a horror movie.

What does it say about us as a society that we’re obviously completely obsessed with talking, evil-looking stuffed animals?

The 80's was also the decade of the whole Ewok fiasco.