More detail here: State investigators found no evidence that Terri Schiavo had been abused or exploited by either side of her family, according to documents released by Florida’s Department of Children and Families. The agency investigated 89 complaints dating back to 2001, when Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed for the first time and the legal …
All Things Schiavo
If you can tolerate just one more opinion on the Schiavo case, then make it this one, which I found via the Samizdata: The constant appeals by the parents to various courts result in the same response again and again: that it is not within the jurisdiction of the court system to circumvent the legal …
More on Schiavo
I re-read what I have written and so far, and I want to add that I am sorry about the tone of the previous two posts. I understand that while this issue has been co-opted by the anti-abortion zealots, there are many people out there who simply just want her to live because of a …
Late Night Weird Kinks Open Thread: But It Worked in St. Ronnie’s Day!
(Drew Sheneman via GoComics.com) Back in the Morning of America, when the Moral Majority ruled the land (or at least the cable news networks), a Repub pol looking for cheap publicity could count on Newt Gingrich or Jerry Falwell to provide attention-catching scare topics for every election. Alas, the dogs bark but the caravan moves …
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Right to Regurgitate
Jeb Bush can take credit for one good thing: His shameless exploitation of Terri Schiavo so disgusted our host that he turned from the Dark Side. Now, with a floundering campaign and the candidate himself getting serially pantsed by the bulbous, evil shower-drain genie Trump, the super PAC for Jeb the Lesser digs up poor …
Composition #2, Cole and pets
Here you go. Many but not all of John Cole’s greatest hits. I haven’t included some links, for different reasons: there were too many posts to choose from on a given topic (on Schiavo, or on alcoholism, for example); I wasn’t sure exactly which post a comment referred to; or I simply couldn’t track something …
Long Read: “The Candidates (good grief)”
Many thanks to dogged commentor Brachiator for a most enjoyable read, Chris Lehman’s LRB report from early June on “the race for the Republican nomination“… It is a cliché of American electioneering for candidates to advertise their humble beginnings and unstinting ascent in the face of adversity… But the emerging field of Republican candidates for …
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