you would have to be living under a rock to miss today’s top headline. and we’ve got all kinds of pundits from the far left to the wayout right, some of them are hailing the arrival of our new clone-savvy overlords and many more are decrying it as the end of human dignity as we know it. others are seeing even further implications on a biblical scale. i heard most of these fine opinions on morning talk-radio, the buzz and chatter keeping me awake on the long drive home from north carolina. the clones have no souls, some say.

they gots no souls and you know what you got when you got a bunch o’ clones who ain’t gots no souls? you gots a band of soul-less heathens, roaming the streets and ravaging with no fear of the afterlife, that’s whats you gots!

thank you, but i think george romero has nothing to fear. if this baby is a clone, so be it. it’s a clone. they’ve created a being using genetic material from one human and one human alone. good for it. i hope they were lucky and got it right the first time (which is highly unlikely under the best conditions) and the poor child doesn’t suffer from the chronic arthritis and multiple other troubles that plagued her predecessor, dolly the sheep. but i have my serious doubts. clonaid’s own website does little to sway me from my skepticism. i mean, the company is run by a guy named ral. nevermind that he’s french or that he is the leader of a sex-cult or that he thinks he is jesus christ’s literal brother or even that one of clonaid’s earlier candidates was a descendant of a famous transylvania count, but that name… jeez. that’s just a bit too close to jor-el for my taste, so he loses points off the bat for lack of creativity. and what’s with the top-knot haircut? he looks like a certain asian superfriend.

so if you ask me, the only clones we need to fear are the ones being produced over at the skywalker ranch… now them clones are scary.