BUBBLE BOY DAVID VETTER, 1971-1984…
1335 by Jeff Hess
It’s difficult to write an introduction to this. I’m no longer surprised by the shameful behavior of that horrible but tiny world of doctors and scientists in search of answers who are blinded by their own ambitions. The second David Vetter had ought not to have been born. The doctors had other plans.
Nonetheless, Dr. Montgomery, another of David’s original doctors, brought the meeting to an upbeat close. Under similar circumstances, he said, he would start this project again with another child.
“How many more?” someone asked.
“Until I determined that there was no more information to be gained by such a thing,” Montgomery replied, “or if the outcome was certain.”
The Reverend Raymond J. Lawrence, the chaplain of Texas Children’s, had convened the meeting, but he was disappointed by its results. The real ethical issues, he says, were never discussed.
I have no clue why this story, published more than 10 years ago, has come to light. But sometimes it’s just good to be reminded that it’s good to remember.
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog head scratch I present: 
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. 
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is 
The sad thing is that I know that the answer to my question is yes. And I’m sure these refugees from a rejected Monty Python skit in Columbus will prove me right some time soon. But for now HB 287 is as good example of any that they have no idea what they really need to be doing down there to make Ohio succeed.
In a world where the innocent are malnourished, abused and slaughtered on a daily basis, this is not a big thing, but it still frosted my shorts this morning when I read 
