11 Replies to “Curioser and Curioser [Dan Collins]”

1. Diana says:

   November 10, 2007 at 9:20 am

   You can’t fool anyone. That’s BillyJ with his head up his ass.

2. SarahW says:

   November 10, 2007 at 9:25 am

   Here is a sound clip of the “hidden” Davinci Theme (as analyzed by Giovanni Maria Pala):

   La Musica Celata

   I’ve got all kinds of pictures of parasitic twins and fetus-in fetu specimens saved on my hard drive; I could show you them. Or not.

3. Squid Vicious says:

   November 10, 2007 at 11:05 am

   That’s an interesting photo, but the coverage of this little girl in the MSM crossed the line from “human interest story” to “gape-mouthed freakshow rubbernecking” a long time ago.

4. Darleen says:

   November 10, 2007 at 3:27 pm

   well, it didn’t take long after the news broke about Lakshmi for Jill at Feministing to use it

   What particularly interests me about this case, though, is how it illustrates some of the problems with the anti-choice (and particularly Catholic and Evangelical Christian) conception of personhood […] So is Lakshmi one person, or two? How does the experience of this very real, born human being square with anti-choice ideology?

   […] the parallels with pregnancy are something to consider. And I wonder which logical hoops one would have to jump through in justifying the removal of a parasitic twin, but outlawing the removal of a fetus or embryo

5. Darleen says:

   November 10, 2007 at 3:28 pm

   whoops “Feministe”

6. JohnAnnArbor says:

   November 10, 2007 at 3:51 pm

   but outlawing the removal of a fetus or embryo

   Um, duh. One has a brain (assuming a healthy fetus) and one does not. I mean, she’s dimmer than a 20-watt bulb in a brownout.

7. Bill Grant says:

   November 10, 2007 at 5:16 pm

   (Sung to the theme of “Spider man”)

   Spider girl,

   Spider girl,

   Does whatever a… spider…girl…does…

   (Ok, so it needs a little work after the chorus… What do you expect, Gilbert and frigging Sullivan? )

8. Kevin says:

   November 10, 2007 at 8:43 pm

   Lakshmi? You mean that girl from NPR’s “All Things Considered”? This explains much.

9. ahem says:

   November 11, 2007 at 4:46 pm

   Oh, dear Jesus, Dan: I told Ace I thought he was a moron for covering this sad story. I’ll add you to the list.

10. Dan Collins says:

    November 11, 2007 at 5:24 pm

    What? You don’t think that’s a cool x-ray?

11. Slartibartfast says:

    November 12, 2007 at 5:20 am

    Um…Jill? One of your two examples involves scraping a nascent human from your uterus, while the other involves amputation of a sibling that never developed, and never will. I mean, we could keep the amputated bits on life support, if you wish, but otherwise, I’m not seeing the point.

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