April 8th, 2005
What happens when you cross Pinky and the Brian with Klingon mythology? Click here to find out. (Then watch your coolness factor plummet by 2d4.)
0 commentsDuck Duty
April 8th, 2005
Greatest story ever.
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April 8th, 2005
Courtesy of Galley Brother B.J.: Go here and click on the image.
0 commentsContest Alert
April 8th, 2005
The Law Jedi is running a little contest for most ridiculous media comments during the Pope coverage. Enter early and often.
0 commentsThe Ordinary Side of the Extraordinary
April 8th, 2005
My friend Chris Levenick (that’s with a “c”) has the best essay you’re likely to read about the Pope this morning. Enjoy.
0 commentsSeparated at Birth?
April 8th, 2005
Have Natalie Morales and Tina Fey ever appeared in the same room together at 30 Rock?
Schiavo Again?
April 8th, 2005
Patterico, who deserves some sort of medal for the writing he did on the Schiavo case, points us to Fr. Robert Johansen, who is writing on the case of Mae Margourik:
85 year-old Mae Margourik of LaGrange, Georgia, is currently being deprived of nutrition and hydration at the request of her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy. Mrs. Margourik suffered an aortic dissection 2 weeks ago and was hospitalized. Though her doctors have said that she is not terminally ill, Ms. Gaddy declared that she held medical power of attorney for Mae, and had her transferred to the LaGrange Hospice. Later investigation revealed that Ms. Gaddy did not in fact have such power of attorney. Furthermore, Mae’s Living Will provides that nutrition and hydration are to be withheld only if she is comatose or vegetative. Mae is in neither condition. Neither is her condition terminal.
Furthermore, under Georgia law, if there is no power of attorney specifying a health care decisionmaker, such authority is given to the closest living relatives. Mae’s brother, A. B. McLeod, and sister, Lonnie Ruth Mullinax, are both still alive and capable of making such decisions. They opposed Mae’s transfer to hospice, and are fighting to save her life. But in spite of the lack of a power of attorney, and the fact that there are closer living relatives who should be given precedence by Georgia law, Ms. Gaddy sought an emergency appointment as guardian from the local probate court. The probate judge, Donald Boyd (who, I am told, is not an attorney and does not have a law degree), granted Gaddy’s request, thereby giving her the power to starve and dehydrate Margourik to death, though such an action is contrary to the provisions of the living will.
Where are Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Reynolds now?
0 commentsJust Asking . . .
April 7th, 2005
If John Paul II had done everything exactly the same way during his papacy but had embraced gay marriage, do you think Andrew Sullivan would still consider him a “failure”?
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