The entire Staff here is so angry that we must once more postpone a promised column. Perhaps the angriest is our Staff Logician, ordinarily calm and measured. But, this week, our Logician is in a fury over the repellent behavior of the Congress and the extra-repellent Tom DeLay. The cause is the phony fight over the body of one Terri Schiavo. The body of this poor remnant has been kept functioning for 15 years, although courts have over and over accepted medical testimony that the body is in a “Persistent Vegetative State” (PVS). The Logician points out that what you have here is a body, NOT a person. The person is gone, not there, any more than if you had a liver preserved for transplant. Yet, the media and the Pols talk about “Saving Terri”. The point is, she isn’t there anymore. As one George Felos, a courageous lawyer, said yesterday, the attempt of the House of Representatives, led by DeLay, to suddenly subpoena this dead body was “odious, shocking, disgusting”. He’s right.

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