CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS: “I had sincerely intended to be the only scribbler in America who stayed out of this most stupid and degrading argument. . . . But, once you engage for even an instant, you are drawn into a vortex of irrationality and nastiness that generates its own energy.”

Indeed.

On the other hand, John Hawkins has put together a Terry Schiavo FAQ that is neither nasty nor irrational.