That said, they didn’t do anything legally wrong, per se. They went out and chose someone they knew who was deaf to be a sperm donor. It can’t be against the law for two deaf people to reproduce, although knowing that they chose him because he basically guaranteed that they’d have a deaf child is enough to make me queasy.

Here’s an entirely different moral issue though, that may occur: what if a future couple decides to do genetic screenings to ensure that they have a deaf child?

I detest being unable to build constructions to a relative, adapted size easily out of purposefully textured structure. You southern-landers can go and have your micro car and I don’t want one any larger then optimal, yet your sizes are a persistent pain for my body.

–As for this material, should I be able to make it into a mold for a house (and ohh, how this new language we use is awful–”make a mold for a fungi house, oh, no wait don’t take it like that”)or a dome-house, for a set of connected dome structures, or of domes and assemblable structures should be a saving grace for housing for my, and indeed all people, should we get our act together enough to dig the structure, lay out a mold, find the spores, and use our freaking corn-shells! -emphasis meant.

I haven’t read it yet but I bought it as a gift to my father and he absolutely swears by it!

My concern is that…I guess it’s the price expectation on the part of readers. This is beating a dead horse, but it seems that (at least on Amazon, which I expected to happen) they expect full 400 page novels for pennies or for free.

Short fiction is PERFECT for ereaders, a 400 page novel is just too long to me. I write historical fiction which entails much research among other things. I’ll take my manuscripts through writer’s workshops & critique groups before publishing them on Amazon. But it seems like length-wise people want ebooks to mirror paper books, except they want to complain that the price shouldn’t mirror paper. I’m thinking of skipping ebooks altogether & selling the work as print only at the higher price point.