Worst of the Web Today: Taranto made light of Sheehan's surgery
August 24, 2006 6:41 pm ET
In his August 24 "Best of the Web Today" column, Wall Street Journal OpinionJournal.com editor James Taranto used reports of anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan's recent hysterectomy to joke that Sheehan underwent the procedure as a cure for hysteria.
Taranto wrote:
It's All Ova but the Shouting
"Anti-war activist Cindy Sheehan was recovering Wednesday at Providence Health Center in Waco after undergoing a hysterectomy on Tuesday," reports Waco, Texas' KWTX-TV.
In an article titled "Atrocities Performed Upon Women in the Name of Science," Dr. John R. Christopher observes: "The hysterectomy was originally performed upon women to cure them of hysteria." It seems some people still have backward ideas about women's health.
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They didn't try the use use of orchiectomies be they surgical or chemical in an attempt to reduce the crime rates and the number of wars we've sufferred through out history.
but I'm still glad I have a pair.
;^)
She's enraged. We all should be, but with so many poor folks fighting this rich man's war, it's easy for too many folks to forget the dying and the killing that occurs beneath our bloodied flag.
And Lynn, you make me smile, Darlin'.
and Bull OhReally? back into the limelight. A perfect "Worst Person" Candidate and, of course, something equally (or more) outrageous by Bully to regain his crown.
... well not really. The Party has shown it true colors as to be racist, sexist a-holes.
And so close to the election too.
How about the anal cyst surgery for this a__hole that Rush took a pass on during the Vietnam War?
He should be fired for this. It's disgusting.
What is happening to my country?
he may have had a frontal lobotomy . . .