Neural Gourmet Archives | Feed Your Brain
Neural Gourmet Archives | Feed Your Brain
I'm sure you're thinking I must be nuts. After all, you remember Terri Schiavo and all the passion and drama about the effort to keep her body alive, despite the fact that her brain had long since atrophied. In fact, yours truly was quoted making a snarky comment about the situation in the Wall Street Journal Online (which is only marginally better than finding your name and number on a bathroom wall). Conservatives went wild, insisting that Terri had a "right to life". Congress, and the President, pissed all over Easter by coming back early from vacation to pass a special law aimed at keeping her in a state of living death. Some Xians even fasted for Terri completely unironically, I might add. It was murder, they cried. Terri wasn't brain-dead, just severely disabled (the kind of disabled where your brains have atrophied and are now just so much goo). Ensuring that everyone lived out their full and natural lives, regardless of their own wishes or that of their families, was THE single most important issue facing America last spring.
How silent they are today.
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It is a very very scary time to be poor in America. Obviously, it's never been a good time, but I don't know if we've ever had an administration in power with such willful disregard for the poor. Heart breaking.
And tng...let there be no doubt that Texas is the worst of the worst.
Speaking of Schiavo...I thought it was ironic that fundies were getting upset about the recent face transplant in France. Talk about a slippery slope? Schiavo enabled these crazies to dig deeper into our personal affairs in the name of "moral protection." First it's morning-after pills, next it will be birth control.
Wash.Rinse.Repeat.
They were? The Terri Schiavo thing I understood even if made no rational sense. Even though her cortex had turned to jello years ago they believed her soul still inhabited her body and as long as you've got the spook in you, anything can happen.
By the way, I recommend not trying to explain to a fundie that everything you are -- all your memories, hopes, dreams, fears, your personality is all contained in that napkin sized and thick sheet (technically it's 6 sheets) of cells we call the neocortex. They get real angry with you.
But face transplants? It's a freaking cadaver they shaved the tissued off of. It's not still animated in any sense (natural or supernatural) so what's the big beef? Does it have to do with that whole rapture thing? They think the dead are going to be bodily transferred to heaven so Uncle Bill's going to need his face back?
