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At the moment, I can't even read stuff I agree with, politically speaking. I overdosed on politics after 9/11 and the past prez election. I'm just tapped out.

No, of course not. Hospice accepts death and manages pain. Euthanasia seeks to cheat death, to eliminate pain by elminating life. The two are not similar.

Interesting, I hadn't thought of the issue in that way. Snidely Whiplash aside, though, I think euthanasia is a pretty important question with a nasty history that kind of deserves more measured consideration than 'hey, I wouldn't want to live like that, what's up with the Man making me?'

It's a poverty of spirit and imagination to consider suicide the pursuit of happiness, but to believe that government approval of physician-assisted suicide is nothing more than a simple expression of freedom of choice is to be willfully blind to the natures of our species, our politics, and our...

Harder than trying to survive while being subtly pressured to end it all for the financial and emotional well-being of their family and society? Sure, it sounds good - let people who want to die have the right to do so. Moral qualms about suicide aside, that leaves the field of human nature...

It's tone of victory. When did the left decide that protecting the weak and vulnerable was religious conservatism, and that their real role in the rapidly expanding world of health-related moral issues lay in championing the right of hurting people to be left alone? Liberals used to fight to...

That is a truly bizarre editorial.

Well, at least you didn't say "with dignity." I spent a very long time in unwilling proximity to medical professionals, and I don't understand how anyone can believe they should be given any further encouragement to kill their patients. They're quite good at hurrying you along even if you give...

Among others - Cell (Stephen King), The Old Wine Shade (Martha Grimes) and the new Jo Bannister mystery, which I'm impatiently awaiting from Amazon UK.

Why finish a book you hate? Otherwise, how will you be able to fully loathe it? Plus, of course, you get less chance to badmouth it to others if you have to be careful not to let it slip that you never actually finished it (because, frankly, it diminishes your credibility if your bored friends...

I will try most books, but I have one hard and fast rule (goes for films as well) - one Jersey joke and it's gone. I've heard them all, I love my state, and frankly, it's a sign of intellectual laziness in the author/screenwriter.

It was very good. Visually beautiful (even the scenes without Russell Crowe) and solid. Giametti and Crowe do a great job. It's one of those movies that kind of gets ignored because it's too big for the crowd that likes indies, and too small for the crowd that likes big movies. It's a very...

I've given Huck Finn a go three time - count 'em, three - due to the unflinching belief of English teachers and professors that this is a Great American Novel. I still hate it. Minor, related rant - is there anything less convincing than Twain's scene where Huck's dressed like a girl and...

I like Cruise, I like Spielberg, I adore big Hollywood summer flicks, and I hated this movie. It wasn't just poorly plotted, written and executed, it was actually insulting. In order to make a Very Important Point about guns being bad, Spielberg asked us to believe that in the states of NY, NJ...

I just watched the documentary "One Day In September", figuring on going to see "Munich" soon, and boy, did Germany get hammered in that film. Good film, very passionate. The most recent thing I've seen is "Serenity," the film sequel to the doomed Joss Whedon scifi TV series from a couple...

I walked out of "Leaving Las Vegas" partly because I thought it was crap and partly because I was in a terrible mood already, and realized about 1/4 of the way through that it was an extremely bad idea to watch that movie in that mood. I left "Brokeback Mountain" about 1/2 way through because...

I hated this book, though it was poorly written and had a creepy, unexplained disassociated quality even when dealing with characters who weren't living in some sort of hazy afterlife. The plot drove the characters. The various explanations for the main character's curious behavior and choices...

That's pretty gracious considering my writing "if you don't understand the concept of honor in writing." Sorry about that. I'm usually not that bitchy to people I've only just met.

I'm coming in a bit late, but I had to say something about the Jinny books. I read the first when I was a child, bought from the book club at school, and loved it. It's funny when you read horse books as a kid, it all seems to make sense - of course the wild Arabian mare would be in a crash...

The standard for nonfiction is that the author make every effort to honestly recall and retell events. Frey just lied, repeatedly and blatantly, throughout his book. As to why it matters - think about it in other terms if you don't understand the concept of honor in writing. What's wrong...