"Regardless of the emotion and political activism that led to Bush pushing 'Terri's Law,' there is a system of checks and balances in place to ensure that no one person makes a decision that could be a matter of life and death."
Isn't that the power Michael Schiavo wants? Anybody want to respond to this Pitt News op ed?
“You! Yes, you behind the bikesheds, stand still laddy!”
It’s one thing to regulate recess (a stupid thing), but entirely another to arrest a kid for playground misbehavior. Somehow I don’t think the punishment fit the crime.
“He told her he was placed ‘in a dark room with a window, a metal toilet and a metal sink,’ and that inmates banged on the window ‘saying they were going to get him and cussing,’ she said. He said officers told him to stop crying or they’d let the inmates get him, she said.”
The Memory Hole has a
scary example of document
redaction going too far. The blacked-out text in this case was a quote from
a Supreme Court decision which denounced the abuse of “domestic security”
powers.
The Memory Hole is a neat site whose purpose is “to preserve
and spread material that is in danger of being lost, is hard to find, or is not
widely known”.
UK Seeks Global Support for Stem Cell Research
Although member nations would not be compelled to sign up to it, the Royal Society argues a treaty banning all forms of human cloning would place a major obstacle in the way of stem cell research which could provide new treatments for diseases including diabetes, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
The ends don’t justify the means. Just ask Josef Mengele.
…to bad rubbish
Cleaner bins rubbish bag artwork
A bag of rubbish that was part of a Tate Britain work of art has been accidentally thrown away by a cleaner.
The bag filled with discarded paper and cardboard was part of a work by Gustav Metzger, said to demonstrate the “finite existence” of art.
I’m not a fan of modern art. Methinks poetic justice was served in this case of mistaken design.