Dale Franks at QandO has a nice summary of his feelings toward the Terry Schivavo case:

I’m troubled by the fact that Ms. Schiavo is not in a coma, or on life support, and we are ordering her to be bumped off. I’m bothered by how easily the right to die becomes the right to kill. I’m bothered by the fact that perhaps someone who let it be known to her husband that she would rather die than live in a PVS is being forced to live for more than a decade. It bothers me that the parents have offered to pay for Ms. Schiavo’s treatment and allow Mr. Schiavo to keep the money and he refuses. It bothers me that elected representatives condemn Mr. Schiavo for having a girlfriend and children by her, as if he was supposed to put his life on hold while his wife remains in a PVS. It bother me that Bill Frist, a cardiologist, is making pronouncements about PVS, a neurological problem that he is not particularly qualified to pass judgment on when compared to a neurologist, even if is is the go-to guy when you have a bad ticker. It bothers me that there are about 35,000 people on feeding tubes like Ms. Schiavo, all of whom may be implicated in a decision to have the plug pulled because they aren’t really people anymore. It bothers me that the pro-life people are essentially calling Mr. Schiavo and his supporters murderers. It bothers me that those on Mr. Schiavo’s side consider their opponents to be ignorant Christers who want to pull us back into the Dark Ages.

Barry Bonds is such an incredible piece of work. Baseball cracks down on steroid use and Barry, the number one poster child for the benefits of steroid use, gets in injury that will keep him out half the season, and maybe the entire season. It’s a bit fishy. This injury gives Barry an easy explanation of why when he returns he will return looking like he has lost a lot of muscle mass because he stopped taking the juice. He will say that he couldn’t work out because of his knee.

Amazingly, Barry is ticked off at the media for questioning him about his obvious steroid use. The guy is absolutely unhinged. Here are a couple graphs from an ariticle on ESPN.com:

While Bonds was defiant and confrontational during his first press conference of the spring Feb. 22, he was despondent Tuesday, using the word “tired” 14 times during his approximate 10-minute session.

“I really don’t have much to say anymore,” Bonds said. “My son and I just going to enjoy life. My family’s tired. You guys [the media] wanted to hurt me bad enough, you finally got there.

“You wanted me to jump off the bridge, I finally have jumped. You wanted the bring me down, you’ve finally brought me and my family down. Finally done it. From everybody, all of you. So now go pick a different person. I’m done. Do the best I can, that’s about it.”

Asked if there was something specific he was talking about Bonds said, “Inner hurt, physical, mentally. Done. I’m mentally drained. I’m tired of my kids crying. Tired.”

Bonds originally underwent knee surgery on Jan. 31. Four days later he accidentally hit his knee on a table at SBC Park in San Francisco and the knee had periods of swelling. An MRI last week revealed further tears in the knee.

Conte said there was no way of knowing whether the incident on Feb. 4 caused further damage.

Barry, I don’t know why your kids are crying. Are they crying because you’ve been on the juice? Are they crying because you are unstable? I sure hope that baseball and the media run Barry off before he can break any more records. Barry Bonds is absolute scum.

Read this op-ed by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Dale Franks’ comments on it at QandO. Franks concludes, “If you want to win elections, you have to have something you’re for, not just something you’re against. How on earth did a party that ran the country almost completely uninterrupted for three generations end up so tone-deaf?”

Howard Dean, a politician who put his nuttiness come out with his classic Dean scream, has a new message for Democrats–keep it simple. So what is the simple message he wants to keep simple? Republicans are “brain dead.” Right, right Howard.

Also, check out what McQ at QandO has to say about this speech.

Eve Winer doesn’t like Girl Scouts selling cookies. I’m glad that Chris O’Donnell has done the job of fisking Eve for me.

I don’t have a rational explanation for some people’s hatred of cars. I-66 in Arlington is too narrow and as a result, I run into stop and go traffic congestion at non-rush our times, such as on Saturdays, or even Sundays at noon. But the auto-phobes in Arlington still don’t think that the road should be widened. From the Washington Post:

There’s never a day when it’s not bumper-to-bumper,” said Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.), who initiated the study with Rep. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.). Both are longtime supporters of widening who represent districts that are mostly outside the Beltway. Wolf said adding a third lane would “make a big impact” on reducing regional traffic.

Wolf and other supporters said they hoped that confining a new lane to the road’s existing right of way would blunt opposition from residents concerned about its reach into their neighborhoods.

It didn’t. Opponents, who welcomed the study when it was announced last spring because they thought it would bolster their position, criticized its findings.

“While we certainly had hopes that this would be a new way of doing things for VDOT, it’s clear the public forums in the fall were mostly for show, and they’ve resisted any meaningful public involvement or debate,” said Jason Rylander, president of the Arlington Coalition for Sensible Transportation. “The study seems to have been designed to reach a predetermined conclusion.”

Rylander said he believes that capacity concerns can be solved by raising carpool limits from two people per vehicle to three and by making small fixes to the highway.

He and other opponents also said another lane will just add more traffic and air quality problems to Arlington.

“Add another lane,” said Arlington County Board member Chris Zimmerman. “Is there anyone who doesn’t believe we’ll have six lanes of tie-ups? What reason is there to believe this will do anything but provide temporary relief? And there’s not even evidence that there would be temporary relief.”

Zimmerman also said any widening would simply create new jams because the road would funnel to two lanes where it goes into a tunnel in Rosslyn.

The study’s findings were presented during a regular meeting of the Commonwealth Transportation Board, which will decide whether to add the road widening to state plans. State officials said they expected a decision in a few months.

What so bad about temporary relief and what is so bad about more people being able to get to where they want to go, even if it mean three lanes of congestion and not just two. Three congested lanes (except for where the road funnels into two laners near Rosslyn) still means that more people are able to get to where they are going. Why is this such a bad thing?

McQ at QandO explain why Scalia is one my my favorite Supreme Court justices.

I like Powerline’s take on Howard Dean.

I really dislike Peter Angelos, the owner of the Baltimore Orioles. I’m glad to see that Marc Fisher a metro columnist at the Post and also Thomas Boswell dislike Angelos.