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Day 10,324 of "America Held Hostage By Terri Schiavo's Parents", and at this point I'm rooting for global warming to inundate Florida, it's just one damn thing after another out of the place. I'm actually starting to feel sorry for Jeb, and there's a string of words I never thought I'd hear coming out of my mouth. It can't be easy to be the smart one in that family.
As to the case, what bothers me most about the way this is all going down is the same old thing that always scares me about the Right in this country -- if the rules don't make things come out in their favor, then it's the rules that are wrong, never their argument. Whatever happened to "A government of laws, not of men"? To scream "judicial tyranny" after a decade of litigation that has consistently gone against one's case risks masking the true slide into a world where there is no common ground upon which to stand. (This is why I feel bad for Jeb; he's the only one of them whose deer-in-the-headlights look when he talks about the limitations of his position seems to be grounded in a genuine understanding that he's being asked to gang-rape the idea of the rule of law -- and that this is a Bad Thing.) It's horrible for the parents, yes, but someone needs to sit them down and explain to them that the woman who was their daughter has been dead for fifteen years, and keeping her body alive by feeding it through a tube is way past morbid by now.
But enough of the Heavy Mental Lifting, how about more socks:
(The astute viewer will note that the "Slytherin" sock is not, in fact, hunter green, which I couldn't find locally*, but green heather, actually a much better match to the light grey as it turned out. The astute viewer will also note that, it having slipped my mind that Hufflepuff's colors are yellow-and-black, the presence of "Bee Girl" in this collection means I am accidentally three socks to my Potter pair, and will now have to either knit myself a Ravenclaw sock, or grow another foot.)
BTW, who's definitely in for Samapalooza tomorrow?
[* By which I mean, "If I'd have to schlep out to Hobby Lobby for it, I'd rather go without". That little sticker on their door about being closed Sundays so their employees can have "time for their families and worship" offends me, because somehow I doubt it's ever even occurred to them that some people might rather have Saturday or Friday instead...]
As to the case, what bothers me most about the way this is all going down is the same old thing that always scares me about the Right in this country -- if the rules don't make things come out in their favor, then it's the rules that are wrong, never their argument. Whatever happened to "A government of laws, not of men"? To scream "judicial tyranny" after a decade of litigation that has consistently gone against one's case risks masking the true slide into a world where there is no common ground upon which to stand. (This is why I feel bad for Jeb; he's the only one of them whose deer-in-the-headlights look when he talks about the limitations of his position seems to be grounded in a genuine understanding that he's being asked to gang-rape the idea of the rule of law -- and that this is a Bad Thing.) It's horrible for the parents, yes, but someone needs to sit them down and explain to them that the woman who was their daughter has been dead for fifteen years, and keeping her body alive by feeding it through a tube is way past morbid by now.
But enough of the Heavy Mental Lifting, how about more socks:
(The astute viewer will note that the "Slytherin" sock is not, in fact, hunter green, which I couldn't find locally*, but green heather, actually a much better match to the light grey as it turned out. The astute viewer will also note that, it having slipped my mind that Hufflepuff's colors are yellow-and-black, the presence of "Bee Girl" in this collection means I am accidentally three socks to my Potter pair, and will now have to either knit myself a Ravenclaw sock, or grow another foot.)
BTW, who's definitely in for Samapalooza tomorrow?
[* By which I mean, "If I'd have to schlep out to Hobby Lobby for it, I'd rather go without". That little sticker on their door about being closed Sundays so their employees can have "time for their families and worship" offends me, because somehow I doubt it's ever even occurred to them that some people might rather have Saturday or Friday instead...]