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Natter 34: Freak With No Name

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.

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Amy - Mar 31, 2005 10:26:52 am PST #1923 of 10001

Because books.

Why, why, why are we making it our business to listen? This sort of thing happens everyfrickingday.

Well, I may be a sap, but just watching this play out over the last month made me care about her, and her family, on both sides. It also made me think about the fact that this is happening to others every day, and what that must be like. (As well as talk to my husband about living wills and directives, which is a good thing, clearly, to do beforehand.)

Also? I think the larger issues of the laws governing living wills and medical guardianship and Congress trying to step in and take over one person's medical care is my business to know. I need to be informed about this stuff, even if it's stuff I never want to imagine would happen to me or mine, because it very well might one day.

Kathy A - Mar 31, 2005 10:28:35 am PST #1924 of 10001

We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Scary:

Appearing on CNN this morning, Focus on the Family's James Dobson seemed to suggest that Congress reconsider the entire structure of the federal judicial system. Noting that the Constitution created the Supreme Court but left Congress with the authority to "ordain and establish" the lower courts, Dobson said members of Congress have "all sorts of power in dealing with the courts, but they haven't had the political gumption to do it." For example, Dobson said, Congress could simply "take away the franchise" of the left-of-center U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit "and then reestablish it the next day," presumably with more conservative judges in place.

Gudanov - Mar 31, 2005 10:32:35 am PST #1925 of 10001

Coding and Sleeping

The Focus on the Family take on Terri's death:

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Nutty - Mar 31, 2005 10:33:43 am PST #1926 of 10001

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

James Dobson: not planning for the future.

(Note to Jim: boy won't it suck next time your party isn't in power, and someone pulls unbelieveable crap on you that you've advocated pulling on other people.)

Luckily, judges would get in line to write vitriolic explanations why that idea is stupid and useless. I think it might even win the withering attention of Scalia himself.

aurelia - Mar 31, 2005 10:34:23 am PST #1927 of 10001

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.

I need to be informed about this stuff, even if it's stuff I never want to imagine would happen to me or mine, because it very well might one day.

Yes, this is true but I'd honestly rather get the message through a sappy episode of ER than from what should've been one family's personal (and private) tragedy. Once the family brought the courts into it, it became news but it didn't have to become spectacle.

Gudanov - Mar 31, 2005 10:36:16 am PST #1928 of 10001

Coding and Sleeping

Note to Jim: boy won't it suck next time your party isn't in power, and someone pulls unbelieveable crap on you that you've advocated pulling on other people.

Republicans not in power? I don't understand. But then, I grew up in Kansas.

Nutty - Mar 31, 2005 10:40:32 am PST #1929 of 10001

"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

I forgive you your brainwashing, Gud.

Topic!Cindy - Mar 31, 2005 10:46:46 am PST #1930 of 10001

What is even happening?

Cindy - they let him in and she did get it on Easter Sunday.

Okay, thanks Aimee. Sorry for the mix up. That must be the one time her priest gave it to her, then (after the tube was removed, I mean).

Sanjay Gupta, I think.

Thanks, Nutty. That's him. Someone I know works with someone named Sanjay, and every time I see the name of the TV Doc, I mess up on the last names.

(Note to Jim: boy won't it suck next time your party isn't in power, and someone pulls unbelieveable crap on you that you've advocated pulling on other people.)

My word, I'm afraid to click the links.

Atropa - Mar 31, 2005 10:49:01 am PST #1931 of 10001

The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.

But, more importantly to my Very Shallow Self: old stock Charles of the Ritz Power Foundation in Paper White, aka, the powder foundation every Gothlet who could get away with it was wearing 12 years ago. Squee! Ahem. The black and pink compact is giving me flashbacks to my youth, it has the same Interestingly Pale effect as remembered, and best of all, I have THREE MORE compacts of the stuff en route.

(And yes, I alerted Jilli. And yes, she also picked some up.)

And I'm currently trying to decide if I want to order a second one. I'm also spending my work day playing with a doll-maker avatar site, as are the rest of my co-workers. We need to create little avatars of ourselves for the newsletter we're *thinking* of sending out.

lori - Mar 31, 2005 10:53:09 am PST #1932 of 10001

but I'd honestly rather get the message through a sappy episode of ER

Oh crap. aurelia just reminded me that there will be endless "Ripped From The Headlines" dramatizations to soon arrive. Feh.

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