I feel bad for these people, because most of them are probably decent people who really care about Terry Schiavo, and I don’t to demonize them because they care deeply about human life. This, however, is just too stupid to not comment on: The morning after Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was removed, lawyers for her …
The Breathtaking Demagoguery
This is mind-numbing: Thirty-nine-year-old Terri Schiavo may not live to see her 40th birthday. She’s not terminally ill. She’s not engaged in inherently dangerous activities. She’s not on Death Row. So, you might wonder, why is she about to die? Schiavo has a profound cognitive disability. And Stephen Hawking has a limp. Helen Keller had …
The Sanctity of Marriage
The past few months have been very illuminating for me, and now that some in my party are viciously attacking Michael Schiavo, it is pretty clear what is meant by ‘the sanctity of marriage.’ The sanctity of marriage is bullshit rhetoric to keep fags from marrying- other than that, it means nothing to these Big …
Brain Dead Republicans
Terry Schiavo is in a Persistent Vegetative State. She is beyond brain-dead, as parts of her brain no longer exist and have been replaced with cerebral fluid. Terri Schiavo, bless her soul, is not going to recover. Ever. Period. She was not abused, she was not strangled, she was not hit on the head- not …
Space Death, The Final Frontier
GUEST POST Please repeat after me: “Prescott Cactus is not a lawyer and isn’t giving legal advice”. Thanks ! The paperwork I show below is usually available on the website your State maintains. The italicized, quote boxed wording below is from the State of Arizona forms on the internet. So now death. The next step …
Late-Night Schadenfreude Open Thread: Vaya con el Diablo, JEB!
(via Dan Savage) $25 million per delegate https://t.co/W074JaxkjM — Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 21, 2016 Clearing our shelves (for the season) — everything must go! Mr. Charles P. Pierce: … He spent gobs of money. He hired all the best people. He had the name and the pedigree. And every one of those conventional credentials …
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Open Thread: The Unloveability of JEB
(Jeff Danziger’s website) . Jeb Bush’s nascent coronation within the Republican “establishment” is beginning to sound more like Oscar Wilde’s quip about “an excellent man; he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.” As soon as Romney acknowledged — for now — that he didn’t have the mojo to survive another primary …