Strange Bedfellows

God, it would be soooooooo easy to make some joke about why the Christian Right have so much sympathy for the brain-dead, but the fact is this just ain't funny.

It's not often that I find myself in strong agreement with card-carrying socialists, but here is one such case:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/oct2003/flor-o31.shtml

By the way, folks: if something like this ever happens to me, I ask two favors of you:

1) Don't ask people to "pray for" me

2) Let my immediate family decide what to do about it. Keep the Falwells and the Robertsons and the Randall Terrys and the Jeb Bushes and the other Bible-Thumping opportunists out of my - and my family's goddamn business.

Let me rest in peace.