Except when you’re left, of course, Dr. John. Your post on the subject is essential reading.

Dawg, you remind me of a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, some decades(!) ago now, where the menu featured an argument between a King and his vizier over the meaning of w(h)ine list.

I considered linking to that post, Lisa, but decided that enough of my thought had moved on from that long-ago day that I decided to excerpt rather than reprint. I think you’re right about the “reason” bit (to the extent that I can claim any such thing for myself); what’s more, either Quilly agrees with you or she’s changed her mind about my posts in the last fifteen minutes and hasn’t told me about it. Which brings me back to the point: what shall we do about it? How shall we act reasonably in a culture that expects us to react as we are told, and how shall we get others to do so?

You told Sauerkraut the same “addict” thing, cooper. Have you got a watch on the poor guy? But your take on life strikes me as wise. Thanks for the stumble on this post.

You are an addict so don’t be so coy.

And I would argue that probably a good 97% of the time, your main points are flawed for exactly that same reason. That’s not necessarily a problem. Certainly, you often present the best, most reasonable solution. And yet, we don’t want to suppress our emotions. Often, and especially as part of a group mind, we don’t want to act reasonably.

Practically the entire left half of the blogosphere has labelled the anti-abortion movement “domestic terrorists”. This will make the Randolph Terrys of the world no less a pack of martyrs, at least in their own minds and those of their adherents, than George Tiller. Perhaps there’s no help for this: we are so polarized, and so addicted to living our lives in Emotional Reaction, that We can find no other way to respond. I hope this is not so – for if it is, we will devour ourselves, and our demise as a Great Nation (whatever that is) is, I think, assured.

Her options were limited. She could go thru the birth, but the fetus’ skull was empty and the child that would be born would die shortly after she did. Or, she could have the late-term abortion and live.

Either way, her fetus was going to die.

Randall Terry and his domestic terrorists apparently want every woman to go thru every pregnancy no matter how dangerous to the woman or how dead the fetus. Yet they call themselves pro-lifers.

What a bunch of &$%#@& as *#^$oles.