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so I just read an LA Times article that says years ago, Tom Delay and his family went along with his comatose father's wishes and took him off life support. It's a pretty interesting piece, and is also interesting since Delay is one of the main people pushing for keeping Terri Schiavo on life support, even though she supposedly didn't want to be. Of course, people can change their minds and each case is different, but there are a lot of similarities between these two, which the piece spells out. And being that it's Tom Delay we're talking about, Congressman Ethics Violation, I'm not willing to give him the benefit of the doubt: to me, it's an obvious ploy to try to court the "right to life" movement in spite of Schiavo's wishes, her husband's wishes, and the court system's rulings. However, I also read a poll that says 56% of Republicans disagree with the Republican intervention in this case. Whoopsie. So not only are are Republicans undermining our system checks and balances (nice DCist article on this), they're not actually courting the voters they thought they were.

But to liven up this serious post, here's some pictures of famous people playing ping pong, from Larry's Table Tennis website.

Fidel Castro


Prince Charles


The Clintons


And Mister Ed.