A modest proposal...

If Terri Schiavo's parents wish to have her feeding tube replaced, then fine. Let them take her home and do it. There was a time when folks stayed at home, as my grandmother did, ill and dying, cared for by their family.

So if you really want to care for Terri, bring her to your house, get your renouned neurologist to donate his time (or pay his fee)and care for her, as family. If treatment will bring her back, propose how to provide the treatment. You've had years to demonstrate how to make a difference.

It's been awhile.

Shows you what happens when there's too many things to do -- the blog goes by the boards.

The Nation's Katha Pollitt voices a vaild concern regading the lack of women as op-ed columnists in the MSM -- one out of 19 at the WaPo and one of eight at the NYT. Pollitt ticks off a long list of women who would make fine op-ed types, including herself by saying "What about me? Am I a potted plant?"

When you consider some of whom the Time's pays to pontificate - Friedman, Brooks, and the soon to be added Tierney - a potted plant would be preferable. I can't understand what MoDo gets paid for either but she tends to be less obnoxious than the beforementioned males simply because she doesn't pretend to have studied and thought deeply about the issue.

John Tierney

John Tierney is elevated to the ranks of puditocracy by the NY Times, which means he won't be fact checked but will be quoted, blurbed, and offered Sunday morning TV time as if he actually knew something.

The Columbia Journalism Review had this to say about him:
"On several occasions, writing for the Times magazine, for his column, and in other parts of the paper, he's advanced arguments in ways that border on outright intellectual dishonesty, either by willfully ignoring major sides of the debate, or by flouting basic journalistic norms whose observance might weaken his case."

It goes on: "It's in the nature of an opinion writer to advance arguments, and sometimes to generate opposition. But a good opinion writer deals with the arguments of those with whom he disagrees fully and fairly, then goes on to explain the merits of his position. Tierney's record, at least when he addresses major national policy issues -- which are what, presumably, he'd be focusing on for the Times op-ed page -- suggests a different modus operandi."

Sounds like he'll fit right in with David Brooks.

No success like failure.

Being considered for president of the World Bank: Carly Fiorina and Paul Wolfowitz.

Enough said about the way to get ahead in the Bush administration.