I can't help but be haunted by the article about Otty Sanchez and her baby.

Given the suffering that that baby likely endured, and that Sanchez is enduring (and will endure for as long as she draws breath), and the suffering to be endured by her family, her boyfriend and his family, the police who investigated the 911 call, and everyone who missed the warning signs leading up to that horrific act, I can't help but think "It would have ben a far, far kinder thing to terminate that pregnancy."

Of course, I have no idea if Otty Sanchez was intentionally pregnant, if she ever considered abortion, or how she felt about abortion. And of course hindsight is 20/20. And I am not suggesting Sanchez should have been forced to abort her pregnancy. But here is a (thankfully rare) example of "choosing life" meant creating unimaginable pain for many, many people.

When I googled "Otty Sanchez", the story on msnbc carried the same picture. The Huffpo piece had an excruciating, nausea-inducing quote form the police that described the crime scene in graphic detail.

but this sad, horrible story shows us how we treat the least of us (the mentally ill, the poor, the newly born).

So while the headline is lurid and the analysis is sub-par, the story isn't unimportant.

And it's one more answer to the forced birthers, who call themselves "pro-life." Insisting that women be denied birth control, adequate medical care, adequate education, and adequate post-support support(but simply raise the baby and accept God's punishment for promiscuity, while simultaneously loving the punishment as God's gift to an unworthy sinner) is every bit as horrific as what happened to Otty Sanchez and her baby.

I'm sure you expressed similar sentiments during the endless, ever-expanding Whitewater investigations. I'm sure you called out Ken Starr of slander.

Oh wait. That was different? Hmmm. Anyone got some hip waders?

Umm. Who is Nora Dannehy then?

The Rove interviews are being conducted by the Judiciary Committee but lawyers for the DoJ are present. (God knows you hate it when I cite articles, but here the LA Times stated: "As a compromise, Rove agreed to field questions from one congressman and one staff lawyer from each party. Also in the room were staff members and lawyers for congressional officers, the Bush and Obama administrations, and the Justice Department, which appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the firings for possible criminal violations.")

I saw that NYT article, and a chill went down my spine. While I think the O'Reilly/Olbermann feud sometimes better resembles a playground grudge match than meaningful journalism, this "Solution" destroys the idea of a free press.

TV cooking shows have become food porn. Everything from the attractive hosts, the back-and forth cutting of the camera shots, the intense close-ups on the foods, the overly loud miking so you can hear every sizzle, and the fake-ecstatic groanings of the tasters, is lifted from the sex film industry.

We'd much rather watch than do.

Oh please. You ask simple questions, like the lady who held up a baggie at a town hall meeting and demanded proof Obama wasn't born in Kenya. But you won't acknowledge any answer, because you aren't interested in answers.

I don't need to convince you, because you can't be convinced. But rational people understand that the US attorney firings are not ancient history, or inscrutable Mayan ruins, that the Bush administration routinely broke laws, and that the dismissals were unjust.