David Limbaugh’s blog pointed me at “Last Visit Narrative” which leaves you with the options of believing this lawyer self-deluded, lying, or Mrs. Schiavo not being all that vegetative.

This BBC article confuses me. What does the Argentine government have to do with a Bishop? What will happen now? Someone explain this to me.

In further science news, I present to the reader “Scientists Discover What You Are Thinking.” Some scientists think they have figured out how to figure out the brain’s signaling for movement. That wording is really bad, but I am not sure how to word it better. They have associated some of the brain’s signals, happening just before movement, to that movement. Has the potential for helping develop robot arms, cybernetics, and similar things. Lots of good potential, some bad potential, I think I end up falling more or less in favor of this research, it is the application that is sketchy, not the method.

A quick rundown of some of the news in the Terri Schiavo case. (Which is the correct spelling? I see people spelling her first name both ways.) David Limbaugh points out some resources and information that FindLaw has aggregated here. The CSMonitor, a news source I picked up at Nan’s advice, has an article on the case here. Predictably, they are not too pleased with the Congress and the president right now. They do ask an interesting question, how would I feel about this if Congress were interfering with the State government on the other side of this mess? I would probably be pretty upset. So perhaps the federal intervention is not the best thing for us to have happening in the long run, but it is nice to see the federal government doing the right thing for once, even if I am unsure of their ends. This is one of the fairest articles from the BBC that I have seen since I started paying attention. Usually the BBC comes down fairly strong in its portrayal of this as a “Right to Die” case. Michelle Malkin weights in here. She has a quote from a Wall Street Journal article, I kind of wish I had a Wall Street Journal login to access the original. She also links to “Terri: A Nurse’s Perspective.” I should ask Mollie about that, but I most likely will not. It does not stand to reason that starving to death would be a “painless” way to die. Going without food for even a few days can be painful, I know that from my one insane weight cut in high school. I am sure that any of the children you see in the advertisements for various charities with their stomachs bloated from hunger would differ as well.

I was reading Planet debian today, and noticed this. Someone built a clock that uses a variety of energy sources to wind itself mechanically, with no user input beyond the initial push to get it started after leveling it. Ederlyn would probably find this cool, and would most likely have a far better understanding of the physics than the poster does.