Matt Yglesias

9 Responses to “Depressing News of the Day”

1. UofAZGrad Says:
   June 10th, 2009 at 12:05 pm

   Gee, isn’t that lovely. They can turn into a shrine with pictures of all the people killed in this debate (only on one side however), with red exes on their faces like they used to do on websites. Good for fund raising, no?

2. Roddy McCorley Says:
   June 10th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

   Now we know what it looks like when terrorists win.

3. JT Says:
   June 10th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

   Hey Matty! Catch this:
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8030258.stm
   Just more proof of the beneficent nimbus that ObaFuhrer has spread across the MidEast! Wonder if Eugene will notice?

   I assume you take the loss of an abortion facility as depressing as opposed to this particular building, yes?
   Though of course context is all.
   Shall we also chalk this up to ObaFuhrer’s magical mystical
   influence?
   And isn’t this exactly what happens when, like the ObaFuhrer, we choose to leave individual rights up to the states’ indulgences?

4. chappy Says:
   June 10th, 2009 at 12:19 pm

   Well, the murder of the doctor was clearly a terrible, terrible act, but what is the problem with selling the clinic? I realize there are obvious symbolic reasons, but, frankly, it would probably be hard to any sort of reasonable offer for it given what happened. If some irrational group wants to pay above it’s fair market value then I don’t see why not. The family has suffered a horrific loss, I’m not sure why they should (possibly) also have to suffer economicly.

5. theo Says:
   June 10th, 2009 at 1:18 pm

   Hopefully the family will take them for as much money as possible, on top of the inevitable wrongful death lawsuit.

   The Christianists can exorcise it and make it into a shrine if they want, who cares.

6. kth Says:
   June 10th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

   Oh it’s pretty easy to guess what their plans are: some kind of Abortion Holocaust Museum, that they will fatuously compare with Auschwitz or whatever.

   It’s all good, though; that kind of rhetoric causes fence-sitters to see how crazy they are.

7. pseudonymous in nc Says:
   June 10th, 2009 at 1:58 pm

   The Christianists can exorcise it and make it into a shrine if they want, who cares.

   And if the clinic just happens to get burned to the ground the moment it changes hands, they can build a Church of the Holy Zygote on the site with the insurance money.

8. Tiller Abortion Clinic Closed Permanently Says:
   June 10th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

   [...] Matt Yglesias passes on word from Kate Klonick that Operation Rescue is going to make an offer to buy the [...]

9. Kropotkin Says:
   June 10th, 2009 at 4:54 pm

   Now we know what it looks like when terrorists win.

   Ain’t that the damn truth? It’s pretty amazing how this has just all fallen in the anti-choices’ laps when a week ago it seemed that they would take a big hit over the outrage about it.