re: #326 Dianna

If you think that’s what the Shiavo case was about, you weren’t paying attention.

But to invite the government into the fundamental business of how you make your living (and please don’t pretend that’s not a few steps away and more possible than any sensible human being would like) is to surrender even more autonomy than you (delusionally) think was at stake in the Shiavo case.

I was sure as hell paying attention to the Terry Schiavo case. It happened in my own home state.

She had been clinically brain dead, with an atrophied cerebral cortex, for many years. The decision that the husband made was the morally and medically correct one.

When Dubya’s far more socon little brother, Jeb, insinuated himself between a husband and wife in one of the most personal and private decisions that can be made in such a union, I winced for a week. You want your in laws’ parents to make that decision for your wife or husband instead of you? Do they get to decide how to raise the kids, too?

It was an utterly disgusting exercise in self-serving political grandstanding pandering. I rejoiced when the courts quite rightly ended the entire sordid affair, and with the proper decision.