The Terri Schiavo case has gone from bad to worse to insane. There I was enjoying a hectic weekend and dutifully avoiding the news for a couple of days, when a woman I know who works for a Florida congressman said they were being called into special session over Schiavo. I had my questions about the husband at one point, but have come to really take his side in this case. Yes he has moved on romantically. No, he doesn't want to continue the extraordinary methods to try and "rehabilitate" a woman whom the majority of doctors who have actually examined her (unlike all those grandstanding congressmen) have found to have a brain cavity full of spinal fluid where the grey matter should be...
If you believe the polls, and there are a slew of posters on Buzzmachine and elsewhere who don't (some FReepers appear to have resorted to calling the federal judge, although the idea was rebuked by some of the more intelligent denizens of the RWC...) the public is with me on this one about 70-30, the exception being a hefty share of evangelical Protestants, who seem to be displaying a profound fear and loathing of death, for a group of people who supposedly have such a strong faith in the hereafter... oh, and some GOP schmuck who circulated a memo over the weekend suggesting the whole Schiavo thing could be good for the party's prospects of continuing to bamboozle the Christian vote... (they're watching you, Bill Nelson...)
Best post of the day: Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit has no opinion on this case. I guess that's as it should be...
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"[T]he practice of arbitrary imprisonments, have been, in all ages, the favorite and most formidable instruments of tyranny.' Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84, August, 1788
