The culture of death
I am baffled by the near hysterical determination to kill off Terri Schiavo to accommodate the vulture she is married to. Andrew Sullivan calls starving her to death “death with dignity”, even though he would never treat a dog that way. And somehow Daniel Drezner finds this a “valid point”. Mark Kleiman is so obsessed by his hatred of Tom DeLay that he seems to think helping Michael Schiavo off his inconvient wife is an acceptable price to pay. And the overrated Dahlia Lithwick is willing to dump decades of civil rights legislation to get rid of Terri Schiavo.
All very sad.
UPDATE: How did I miss Chris Bertram’s post at Crooked Timber? He and the bulk of his commenters seem positively bloodthirsty.