When a man is tired of Keyshawn Johnson, he is tired of life!

Although he did come through in Tampa Bay’s trouncing of the Eagles.

Bret: Hitchens has a go at the Dems on those grounds, too, although he stops short of envisioning the party itself as an aborted fetus. Personally, I think it’s overstating the case to say that the abortion issue is the sole animating force behind the party. More that many pro-choice people feel permanently uncomfortable with the Republican party on account of its pro-life wing, so there’s a ready-made constituency there for the alternative, whatever it may be. Off the top of my head, I’d say the corresponding issue for the Democrats is gun control.

Bill: actually, I’ve never felt “anti-choice” to be any more euphemistic than “pro-life”, and it’s certainly less hysterical than “misogynistic zealot” or “baby murderer”. Maybe “pro/anti-abortion” would be a better locution. (Also, Noonan’s “young humans” is a bit of question-begging almost as egregious, I suppose, as the way in which I phrased the left/right positions in my earlier comment. Sigh.)

Still, I don’t really get depressed until I read people characterizing the issue as a “war” – being waged against, depending on the pundit, either women or blastocysts.

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