http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_in_the_stranger_13 The drawing on the cover this week is by Paul Hoppe. Dan Savage's Defense of Dignity "On Monday morning, after eliminating all other possibilities (a virus, pneumonia, some rare desert fungus), a doctor pulled me and my stepfather out of my mother's room. They were out of options. Nothing more could be done. Her battered lungs were failing; one had a widening hole in it. Amazingly, the doctor didn't say, 'It's over, this is it.' He laid out the facts and we stared at him dumbly for that world-without-end moment, and then one of us--my stepfather, me, I don't... Copyright 2008 Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:52:31 -0800 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:58:06 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss I really like this week's cover. It makes me think of Watchmen.

]]> Patrick http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_in_the_stranger_13#c1169538 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_in_the_stranger_13#c1169538 Housekeeping Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:58:39 -0800 That's just great. Economic tentacle porn.

]]> K http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_in_the_stranger_13#c1169668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_in_the_stranger_13#c1169668 Housekeeping Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:50:55 -0800 Dan's article about his mom left me a blubbering mess at my desk yesterday. It is an absolutely must read.

]]> Angel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_in_the_stranger_13#c1169846 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_in_the_stranger_13#c1169846 Housekeeping Fri, 10 Oct 2008 05:47:29 -0800 Having had loved ones who took their own lives when the pain of living was too much to bear, I feel for Dan and others who find themselves in these situations. Consider this; the Catholic Church runs hospitals that depend on a slow death patient's money. Families are bled dry. If I'm under a death sentence and I risk the well being of my family by being a vegetable at a cost of thousands of dollars a day...pull the plug. And keep the damned church the fuck out of my personal decisions.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_in_the_stranger_13#c1169871 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/this_week_in_the_stranger_13#c1169871 Housekeeping Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:58:06 -0800