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This little girl has quite a life ahead of her.

As annoyed as I was that OJ got off, one couldn’t help but like late Johnny Cochrane.

Cochran died of a brain tumour at his home in Los Angeles, his family said.

Anyone who doesn’t believe that the title phrase didn’t win the case is mistaken.

Perhaps the last word on the topic from my favorite wordsmith.

Michael Schiavo is living in a common-law relationship with another woman, by whom he has fathered children. I make no judgment on that. Who of us can say how we would react in his circumstances? Maybe I’d pull my hat down over my face and slink off to the cathouse on the other side of town once a week. Maybe I’d embark on a discreet companionship with a lonely widow. But if I take on a new wife (in all but name) and make a new family, I would think it not unreasonable to forfeit any right of life or death over my previous wife.

Either Fred is losing it or he’s on to something.

I tell my kids, never get into a retirement program. Save your own money. Steal. Set up a business, found a cult. Learn credit-card fraud. Retirement programs are indentured servitude with a better address, the financial equivalent of a lobster trap: You can get in but you can’t get out. Half the US is running at $6500 on the Visa and counting the last fifteen years until life begins.

Rosie weighs in on the right to life can of worms opened by the Shiavo case.

I fear our right-to-die culture is steadily moving towards no-right-to-live, a point where those who lack a strong advocate — a vigilant guardian to manoeuvre through an overwhelmed health care system — will increasingly be viewed as expendable, a drain on resources.

Went over to Puretracks last night and actually paid for music – including Rough Trade’s All Touch.

It is possible for the music industry to make money.  It just takes them too long to get with the program and embrace change.

I’ve resisted typing about the Shiavo case (why can’t anyone pronounce her name correctly?)

I have to agree with Bill O’Reilly, tho, and that is, it’s time for the husband to let her go back into her parents’ care.  If what he says is true about her wishes, we can only say he is devoted and caring on the surface.  On the other hand, he should let her parents err on the side of life. 

I don’t believe she’s actually “in there”, but why punish her parents who believe she is?  They bore the child, and she is their blood, so let them take over.

This case should have never escalated to where it is today.  It’s amazing how far people can take a fight with the in-laws.

Despite two setbacks in the same federal appeals court yesterday, the parents of Terri Schiavo clung to hope last night after Governor Jeb Bush suggested Florida’s Adult Protective Services would attempt to take custody of the severely brain-damaged woman.

LIB has an entry pointing to the Toronto Police Service’s raw crime file. Very interesting.

With a hat tip to the Toronto Star, this is an interesting service being provided by the Toronto Police Service: a daily round-up of major crimes in Toronto, as reported by the cops, without any media filter.

Mark thinks abortion and social issues should be on the West’s election agenda – ironic since the Canadian Conservatives are basically told to shut up about these issues by their leader if they want to run again.

I happen to believe a lot of what we call “late-term abortion” is in reality early-term infanticide, but, if you don’t accept that that’s a human life that’s being destroyed, my deeply personal passionate beliefs aren’t likely to sway you one way or another.

I am waiting for the Fiberals to blame this one on Mike.

Ontario’s budget deficit has mushroomed to $6 billion overnight after the provincial auditor general took the Liberal government to task for questionable accounting.

Maybe the statute of limitations has run out.

…or will it?

Rolling Stone’s Bill Werde reports that Philadelphia no longer has a modern rock station, as last bastion Y100 went out on Feb. 24 as a Pearl Jam lamb and came in a few minutes after midnight like a hip-hop lion.

Steyn rips out a brilliant view of the future of the West, ie. Europe and Canada.

So what about Europe? Canadians are, at least psychologically, an honorary member of the EU: we take the “progressive” Euro-view on Kyoto, cradle-to-grave welfare, abortion, a bloated “public sector” workforce, confiscatory taxation, joke prison sentences, and just about everything else.

Apparently we have a chance at survival if we watch the collapse of the EU closely.

A damning view of secularism:

Religious societies have a much greater sense of both past and future, as we did a century ago, when we spoke of death as joining “the great majority” in “the unseen world.” But if secularism’s starting point is that this is all there is, it’s no surprise that, consciously or not, they invest the here and now with far greater powers of endurance than it’s ever had.

This guy thinks he has seen the future of media. 

Over the next ten to twenty years there will be a revolution in broadcasting so drastic that I believe TV sets will virtually disappear in American homes within the next 25 years. The in-home AM/FM radio is already going the way of the 1950’s short-wave, and within 15 years will become a curiosity.

Interesting ideas.

I always liked Bill Cameron – sorry to see him go so early.

Veteran broadcast journalist and former CityPulse anchor Bill Cameron passed away early Saturday morning after a battle with cancer. He was 62-years-old.

Coren’s latest on the RCMP shootings and our decaying social fabric.  Not sure how there are directly related, but it gives an excuse for him to bring up some points I agree with anyway.

Single-parent families and the absence of male authority figures. Parents never seeing their kids because both are working and junior is parented by the television.