"What the caterpillar calls the end of life, wise men call a butterfly."

I've been pretty much ignoring the Schiavo case, and you already know how I feel about being kept alive if I ever become a brussel sprout. However, I really enjoyed reading this Slate article about "Activist Legislators: The boundless overreaching behind Congress' new Schiavo bill" which starts with, "Whether Terri Schiavo will live or die in the coming days has come down to this: Can federal district judge James Whittemore set aside virtually every bedrock constitutional principle on which this nation was founded, just so members of the United States Congress may constitutionalize the nowhere-to-be-found legal principle that a "culture of life" is a good thing?"