"It has to do with the culture of life." -- Bill Frist, US Republican Senate Majority Leader.

The US House of Representatives and Senate have passed laws that "block the removal of Terri Schiavo's feeding tube." If you don't know the story, it has to do with a Florida woman who suffered brain damage from a heart failure in 1990. She remains, according to doctors, in a "persistent vegetative state."

Her husband contends that she told him she would not want her life maintained artificially, whereas her parents do not believe this, and have fought him every step of the way to remove the feeding tube that maintains her life. They've filed with the Supreme Court on the grounds that Terri Schiavo's "religious freedom and due process rights" are being violated. Anyway, this has sparked a huge effort from Florida and federal lawmakers to fight the removal of her feeding tube.

Have we carried things a bit too far here? There is a difference between removing implements that artificially maintain a persistent condition like this and actively killing someone. Let's be clear here, this is not euthanasia, nor is it doctor-assisted suicide. Neither of these issues exist, because neither of those cases apply. Euthanasia is the administration of a medical procedure that would bring about death, not the withholding of medical procedures that would save lives; and doctor-assisted suicide is just that: a physician aiding a patient in the taking of her own life. (Of course, drawing this distinction is going down a questionable road of determining which procedures should be justifiably withheld under which conditions, but this is no more questionable than the difference between a physician being unable to save a patient and malpractice.)

Aren't we (and it becomes we when legislators get involved) are to a greater extent "playing God" when we keep this woman in these conditions alive for fifteen years than by removing medical interventions and allowing her to die "naturally."

Of course, it doesn't matter so much, does it? I mean, it's not so much this woman's life that's important, but the political points you get with religious groups when you stand up for "life" (by any means necessary, apparently.)

all I'm going to say is this: stylists do wondrous things to people. Courtney, Avril, Kirstin et al. can all look both amazingly gorgeous and amazingly awful, depending on the clothes, hair, makeup etc. it's possible with pretty much anyone. (I mean, yeah, body and bone structure do have a lot to do with it too, but a lot of the 'beauty' we see is applied to them, and we really need to look at the canvases all the paint's been thrown on... if you really want to get down to it. hell, even actresses and models have excess hair or back fat or whatever, they've just had a team of professionals groom them.)

Sorry Tay,

Kirsten, Avril, very hot... Ashlee, so-so.
Courtney, not so much.

My sincerest apologies.

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On the nerd on nerd violence department, two mmft artist are trying to kill each other virtually. That mmft picture I posted last time is drawn by a artist named "Nataku", another artist named "Cyraxis" was the past champion winning 3 tournaments before. Now everyone has jumped onto Nataku's bandwagon and sees Cyraxis as past his prime. Actually he kinda is, all his designs are derivatives of his last designs (read they all look the same). If I was comparing this to Gundam Artist, then Cyraxis would be Kunio Okawara and Nataku would be Hajime Katoki except everyone knows Cyraxis is no good anymore. Well can't say that I blame him for being mad, Cyraxis is just resting on his laurels and not really challenging himself anymore. Well I'll stay out of this one and watch the fireworks fly.

Google Maps now shows Edmonton in detail. I expect never to have to give people directions to my house now. If you have a computer and an internet connection, I'm giving you the address and you're on your own, kiddies.

That's not a moon, it's space sta-... Oh, wait, never mind. It is a moon.

I don't know if this has occurred to anyone, or how busy anyone is this weekend, but we just got a decent snowfall. Soccer? Sunday afternoon, maybe? Let me know, and we can set something up.

Oh, and it's official. My hard drive is, to use the technical term, borked. I think I have most of what I need backed up from a previous failure, though (except those delightful change-of-message-direction arrows, which I'm pretty sure only one person uses anyway.)

No one is questioning your taste in women Tay (To each his own!). You don't have to prove anything to us. However if this is your excuse to post pictures illegally from some guys site, therefore stealing his bandwidth then go ahead. Next time if you want us to see all the pictures then download the pictures into your U of A account (Or any other web page account you may have) and then post from there, I find I don't get any of that photobucket, lycos, tripod, image blocking bullshit. No red x's from being denied the pictures.

dammit... how am I supposed to sleep with Kirsten and Avril on my brain!?? Holy shit those two girls are too hotttt.

Are you serious??? You didn't find a single one of those Courtney Love pictures in the least bit attractive? Man, I cannot fathom that at all.


But hey, whatever it is that does it for ya I guess. I on the other hand don't get Jessica Alba at all. Her face is really weird-lookin in my opinion. But whatevs, whatevs... She's all yours man.


How come my Kirsten Dunst photos got red-Xs already? That sucks. They were soooo hot.