This letter to the Editor of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer struck me as funny and true. Read it for yourself.
Unsettling lessons learned from Terri Schiavo's case
What we've learned from Terri Schiavo's case:
1) Tom Delay is a qualified neurologist.
2) Two dozen court cases weren't enough to really figure out what's going on.
3) Michael Schiavo is after money, which is why he turned down millions of dollars to sign over guardianship.
4) Right to life applies only when it's politically expedient.
5) Medical diagnoses are best performed by watching highly edited videotape rather than in person by trained physicians.
6) Minimum wage-making nursing assistants are more qualified to diagnose a persistent vegetative state than experienced neurologists.
7) Fifteen years in the same persistent state is not really enough time to make an accurate diagnosis.
8) Marriage is the most sacred of all unions, except when it isn't.
9) Interfering in a family's private tragedy is a great reason for President Bush to cut short a vacation, but getting a memo that warns of a terrorist attack isn't.
10) Right-wing pro-lifers are the most compassionate people on Earth, which is why they are robbing gun stores or offering money online to make sure Michael Schiavo dies.
Scott Bourne
Gig Harbor