According to the mighty CNN, ethicists in Texas (um, what?) are arguing over whether to remove a baby suffering from a degenerative nerve disorder from life support or not. Central to the question is whether he is in pain. The hospital wants to pull the plug. The baby's mother, who is apparently a fucking idiot, disagrees. She said that she wants to keep her son on the ventilator and feeding tube and allow him to die "naturally, the way God intended."
I'm not one to argue about what's natural and what isn't. I mean, I'm sure there are some who'd argue that a Cleveland Steamer isn't natural, but to me that's as natural as organic alfalfa. But if we're going to call a ventilator is natural, doesn't that mean that death itself is unnatural? I'm no doctor, but can't we pretty much keep any lump of meat "alive" these days with a ventilator and feeding tube?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, lady, but if there is a God, he's clearly chosen American Idol or the Stanley Cup playoffs over your son.
Analogcabin @ 3:38 PM ------------------------- This isn't going to help John Edwards with that whole he's just a haircut thing, is it? Analogcabin @ 9:52 AM ------------------------- So far today I've encountered a few really amazing headlines regarding the Virginia Tech shooting. The first was, Va. Tech Killer Suicidal. FBI profilers were able to reach that stunning conclusion after discovering him with his gun in his mouth and his face blown off. Then there was, Va. Tech Gunman Had Mental Problems. That story was cracked by the same Woodward who brought us the news that the space shuttle Challenger had mechanical problems. Analogcabin @ 9:40 AM ------------------------- Reading through The Huffington Post today I found the positioning of the below kind of funny. Not sure if it was intentional or serendipity. Analogcabin @ 8:20 AM ------------------------- The Obama campaign released its Q1 fundraising numbers today, and they're astonishing. He raised "at least $25M", and about $23M of that is OK for use in the primary. The Clinton camp will not reveal how much of her $26M is for the general election, but it's generally believed to be a significant percentage. Also staggering is the amount of money Obama raised online ($7M,) the number of donors (over 100K), and his low average donation/donor compared to Hillary's. Analogcabin @ 9:23 AM ------------------------- I think we can all agree that America needs me now more than ever. But it's difficult to keep up. I have a very busy schedule. Let me tell you about it. Analogcabin @ 8:56 AM -------------------------
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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Hooray, news.
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Imus' ridiculous visage aside, I'm not entirely sure why anyone cares about his comments. I mean, sure, it was racist, but it's Imus we're talking about, not Bob Schieffer. Nobody listens to this old coot, and I don't know if they ever did. He's a retarded man's Larry King, who himself is a slow man's Matt Lauer.
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Wednesday, April 04, 2007
If you like Obama, this is a huge day. It's long been assumed that Clinton's biggest strength is her ability to fundraise ungodly amounts of money, and that she'd chip bully her opponents out of the race as quickly as possible. The fact that a two-year Senator who started the race with a donor base of about 90K, mostly in Illinois, can raise more money than the wife of an extremely popular two term President is simply stunning.
UPDATE: ABC is saying it's Obama $23.5M for the primaries, Clinton $20M. That's a win, people.
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Tuesday, April 03, 2007
This weekend I hosted one of the Obama "House Parties." The name was appropriate -- it was very similar to the Kid n' Play film of the same name, except that the average age of attendees was twice, perhaps thrice that of those you see in the movie. And before you weakly whine out, Why wasn't I invited?, know this: You will never pass the threshold of my house, you bucket of unctiousness.
Anyway, at the house party we watched a DVD provided by the campaign and then watched a Q&A webcast from Iowa. We did so on my new large television, which is fifty inches and fueled by that oft-forgotten fourth state of matter -- plasma. I think the attendees were impressed by the television, at least until I hooked up the computer to it and used it to show the webcast, the dimensions of which were roughly 10% of the total size of the TV.
Of course, this TV is not intended for viewing webcasts. I bought a Playstation 3 with it, and let me tell you, the combination of the two is really quite delightful. Nothing can flood your soul with a feeling of patriotic accomplishment like successfully re-enacting a series of great battles from WWII on a 50 inch HDTV. Hell, I'd endeavor to say that there's no greater testament to the greatness of America as a nation than the experience of playing Call of Duty on a 50 inch HDTV.
So consider this: We've spent close to a half trillion dollars in Iraq. My really great TV and PS3 cost about $2600. Let's say that, if we include shipping and a copy of Call of Duty, we're at $3000. At that price, we could send one of these really awesome packages to every person in Iraq and Afghanistan and Iran, and we'd still have about 40 million left over.
What should we do with the leftovers? you empty-headedly ask. I say we raffle them off. Raffle eligibility? Being American, motherfucker.
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