April 01, 2005

• The hypocrisy of the "Culture of Life" is enough to make me spit among other things.
• Well I'm just tired of hearing about it.
• perfect, snarky article. Good on him. In other news
• I thought looking good was the best revenge!
• Excellent column. This should be required reading for all the self-righteous nutbags who have latched on to this issue.
• "I want to be placed in a hospice where protesters can gather to bring further grief and disruption to the lives of dozens of dying patients and families whose stories are sadder than my own." I hadn't thought of that.
• I sure do love Monkeyfilter. One fantastic article brought to us by SideDish, and a side dish of a cute and fuzzy kitten picture by kitfisto. Personally, I'm just waiting for the well deserved flurry of defamation lawsuits by Michael Schiavo against everyone who went on TV calling him a murderer and an abuser. Isn't that sort of talk in public actionable anymore?
• Aparently her parents are selling the contact information for their supporters to a conservative direct marketing firm. NY Times link to story.
• Aparently her parents are selling the contact information for their supporters to a conservative direct marketing firm. Wow. I'm speechless.
• Great link, SideDish! Bananas for you and Mr Friedman alike.
• meredithia -- Whenever I am asked my opinion about the situation, I generally state that the case has no business being a national story. Thousands of people are in similar states and no one cares. DA's offices and police spend way more taxpayer money prosecuting attractive white female cases than they do black victim cases. We, as a society, are clearly stating that we value their lives more. Here, in this case, our society has announced that we care more about her. It is a story because it sells. Journalism's responsibility is to give the people what they need, not what they want. This is not what we need.
• Journa-what? I'm not familiar with that word. I do love me some infotainment, though!
• is there...any...way we could e-mail and broadcast this to the majority of the American public just before the next set of elections? Spot on, Side!
• Responsible journalism is an oxymoron.
• You would've gotten a laugh out of Prince Charles' muttered comments to his sons at a photo op the other day. I cracked up, but journalists everywhere are apparently outraged.
• bernockle-- I agree. The one thing I was hoping for out of this whole fiasco -- a mature discussion about eating disorders and the price some people are willing to pay to look acceptable -- didn't happen. This was a private family matter that had no business being in the courts -- or especially in the media. Beyond what I feel about the journalists who covered the story, I'm disappointed in the politicians who tried to use it for their own gain. They hold no value for life, but for power, and that sucks. Mostly because these people already have way too much power over what I can and can't do with my body.
• Personally, I thought the best revenge was always a LEAD PIPE UPSIDE THE HEAD! On preview: Damnit, fuyu!
• What are the odds that Robert Friedman will now receive some death threats of his own from the same set of obnoxious busybodies? Great article, though.
• I thought the best revenge was inviting your enemies to dinner and serving them a meal made from the corpses of their children.
• Children served cold, mind you...
• Serving children hot is gauche. Duh.
• Nah, Quid, the best revenge is peeing on their tires.
• Agreed - and it would have made for a much better ending to Titus Andronicus too.