TO LAURA. OK, in 2004, you came out and patted us all on the head and reassured us that all that icky stem-cell stuff wasn't something we should count on, no matter what beasties were lurking in our gene pools. Last week, you went back to that old stand, tut-tutting Michael J. Fox, simultaneously insulting him and condescending to every voter in Missouri. Then, there's this business yesterday.
You are not a geneticist. You are not an epidemiologist. You are not a military strategist or a constitutional lawyer or the Manners Police of the national discourse. You're a librarian from Bugtussle. Thanksgiving is on the way. Go home and make sure the liquor cabinets are locked.
--Charles P. Pierce
