Morning Docket: 01.29.08
* Resignation in Detroit text-message scandal (previously discussed here). [Detroit News]
* A proud American tradition unknown in the rest of the world: bail for profit. [New York Times]
* Legal luminaries at the SOTU. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Trial begins in alleged microwaving of infant. [CNN]
* TRO against Patriots’ Moss extended until after Super Bowl. [SI]
* Mortgage crisis may affect litigation departments. [WSJ Law Blog]
* U.S. jails Colombian FARC leader. [BBC]
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The case of the microwave death is one of the most truly horrific things I have read in the news in a long time and yet one more symptom of our culture of death. But don't expect Planned Parenthood to comment.
True (the first part) - as a parent it truly sickens me to read crap like that. It kind of makes me want to move far away from this place (like Iceland).
I don't expect Planned Parenthood to comment either. For the same reasons, I don't expect Bill Belichik or Jennifer Lopez to comment on the case either.
I'm not apologizing for the infant's death in any way, but if you want to examine when the so-called "culture of death" began, you'd have to look back to, say, the Dark Ages. Human life was a lot cheaper in practically every historical era than it is now. But to acknowledge that wouldn't let Fed Soc make his troll-baiting post, now would it?
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