Terry Veg-O-Matic says "oooghahhhoooo" and people imagine she's saying "I want to live".
*Bush flies to DC in the middle of the night to sign a Constitutionally ambiguous and precendent setting piece of Legislation and make a speech about erring on the side of life.

Terry Veg-O-Matic is in the position she's in because she was a bulimic/anexoric
*Her parents says she'd want to be force-fed by a machine.

The nutballs around the hospice are fighting for the santicty of human life
*Half of them are advocating for Greer's murder.

What a sad situation when people just can't just mind their own business.

As I understand it he has turned down offers of $1M and $10M to walk away this past week and he hasn't done it. I'd like to think it isn't because he's hoping the book royalties will be better that way.

This nanny nation thing? I kind of see two trends - one essentially libertarian ("a woman's right to choose") and a theocratic trend (you can't do it because it offends my god; abortion, Janet Jackson's boob, Opie & Anthony, bare-assed lady on Monday Night Football, gay marriage, right to die law in Oregon, dope for cancer patients, etc...)

What bothers the shit out of me is the latter, and this Terry Veg-O-Matic deal is evidence to me that the theocratic trend is building into a tsunami.

It seems to me the first to benefit from similar treatment was FDR, not only within the context of obscuring his physical disability, but also with regard to the "New Deal" and his prosecution of the war. The government in that time sponsored hundreds, if not thousands, of news reels seen by everybody (because then everybody went to the movies) that gave the impression of a unified front on Government policy even when it didn't exist.

Later Kennedy got much the same free ride - no, he didn't make a mess on the scale of Bush in Iraq, but the BOP was a serious mess in its own right. And his personal peccadilloes certainly went by with a wink and a nudge.

Good example: remember how dangerous power lines were 20 years ago? Everybody up in arms about EMF giving them cancer?

Now that the media has moved on, everything is EMF generating - magnets in insoles, magnets on the wrist, magnets in hats, magnets in beds.

The shame of it all is that I apparently lack the moral turpitude to profit from it.