Here’s a baseball story congress might should hear. “I got to sit in the same seat Johnny Damon sat in. It was so cool! Then we got to Cairo and they hooked a car battery up to my testicles. “

Also, surely I just missed this in our vigilant mainstream media, but after hearing about it somewhere I bought this article from the November 8, 1967 New York Times about a spat at Yale over fraternity hazing rituals. Apparently, Delta Kappa Epsilon was accused of branding new members:

A former president of Delta [said] that the branding is done with a hot coathanger. But the former president, George Bush, a Yale senior, said that the resulting wound is “only a cigarette burn.”

Low Culture has an interesting take on Bush’s “culture of life” rhetoric, and how it matches up with the reality of his past actions. And I know that this doesn’t fit with the Republican federalist rhetoric of “freedom from government,” but that particular freighter of hypocrisy sailed long ago.

There’s also probably a good post in this somewhere about how “this Culture of Life Moment was brought to you by the second anniversary of the invasion of Iraq,” but I feel there are others here who have more practice with that sort of theorizing…

So is there anyone in the world (who does not rely on votes from evangelical nutjobs) who can justify the way Congress and our president are throwing away separation of powers, state’s rights, and any last shred of decency in order to keep a tube in this woman stomach?

Congressional GOP leaders were unapologetic for intervening in a way that is likely to raise constitutional separation-of-powers questions and that is at odds with traditional Republican calls for honoring marital privilege and limiting the role of federal courts. “Every hour is terribly important to Terri Schiavo,” DeLay said.

The self-righteousness and hypocrisy is staggering.