Hi.

I was reading your excellent blog today and when you were talking about your teacher with the crusty elbows who
was reading the poem about the girls
in their summer dresses and you could almost see him drool, did you mean the short story by Shaw title The Girls in Their Summer Dresses?

Keep up the good work!
claretoothloose | Homepage | 03.20.05 - 7:12 pm | #

The Congressional Dems do not know what they are doing. If the case goes to SCOTUS, and the justices find that a state has the regulatory power over rights to life and death, there go the legal underpinnings of the anti-abortion and anti-death penalty movements. If the justices find that Congress has jurisdiction, then Congress can pass laws affecting abortion and the death penalty, which would have to be sustained by SCOTUS if they were to follow consistent reasoning.

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chsw | 03.20.05 - 9:00 pm | #

I think you're exactly right about the motivation--for lots of people on the Left, it's Abortion Uber Alles. But I what I really love is the insistence that an adulterous husband has the right to kill his wife (since she stands in the way of his marrying the mother of his illegitimate children) because it's a "private matter." Even hard-core Libertarians recognize that one legitimate function of government is to prevent citizens from killing each other to further their self-interest. But I guess that goes out the window when it's between married people.
David Fischler | 03.20.05 - 10:30 pm | #

Interfering in the most personal of family decisions? What family? That's the whole point of the Terri case-the "family" is not at all united about what to do here. Government always has a role in keeping the scales honest. Here the party calling for death has an obvious conflict of interest. Why he's still involved in the decision is beyond me.
Rick9719 | Homepage | 03.20.05 - 11:40 pm | #

Commented recently on how the left complains it doesn't want government legislating people's private lives, and now they're complaining Republicans are hypocrits? Does this mean they'll cease supporting tax dollars to Planned Parenthood, and quit pushing for gay marriage-type unions? Aren't these the same people who dissed marriage years ago, saying it was only a piece of paper, who needs it? Hmmm...
Faith | 03.21.05 - 7:10 am | #

Faith - hush, you're letting out the truth!

But it does highlight one of the biggest problems of modern Western society, doesn't it? Courts and bureaucracies infect every part of our lives. We have to waste our time dealing with things like this politically, which isn't the best venue. As a result, people oppose all reason and deny the very dignity and integrity of mankind if their political thought demands it.
Nightfly | Homepage | 03.21.05 - 12:28 pm | #