THE CARMEN ELECTRA OF THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH: I look at the President’s Council on Bioethics, and how the Bush Administration is blowing things, in my TechCentralStation column for this week.

UPDATE: Virginia Postrel is unhappy, too.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Here, via Hit&Run, is a piece by Ron Bailey on the Council from its early days that’s still worth reading. Bailey regarded the Council as insufficiently diverse (in an intellectual sense) then; it seems unlikely that the latest round of changes is going to improve matters.