Go read Sandy's Schiavo Notes.

And in a related bit, House Majority Leader Tom Delay and his family in 1988 chose not to connect their father to dialysis machine after an accident and instead allowed him to die in peace. Tom Delay helped push through the extraordinary legislation trying to overturn the findings of Florida's courts in the Schiavo case.\

When his father's kidneys failed, the DeLay family decided against connecting him to a dialysis machine. "Extraordinary measures to prolong life were not initiated," said his medical report, citing "agreement with the family's wishes." His bedside chart carried the instruction: "Do not resuscitate."

I've been wanting them to do a feature on MLS and they finally did.

If the rumor that Donovan will end up in LA after a disappointning 3 months in Germany are true, what does that mean for his future career? Will he remain a perennial MLS player, a big fish in a small pond? Would another European team ever take a chance on him after this? If he comes back to the States, he'll be branded a Euro-reject and that could over shadow any other accomplisments, short of winning the World Cup.

Since rejoining the Bundesliga club in January, however, Donovan has played only sporadically, most often off the bench, and experienced what Kicker described as "an athletic Waterloo" with what the magazine termed "his totally ineffective performance in the Champions League against Liverpool."