I’m about to make a real dumb naïve remark (and I make it having supported congressional action, I realize), but here goes anyway (at least you’re warned this time): The worst part about this Schiavo frenzy, besides the obvious impending death of a helpless woman, is that it’s now so much about politics. Republicans blaming Democrats for her starving. Now Democrats and everyone else blaming Republicans for doing anything they’ve done just to get “pro-life” votes. It’s all so crass. This is a woman’s life we’re talking about here. This is a daughter and sister her family just wants to love. But it’s become, too, the stuff of overwrought and rotten editorials and op-eds and punditry. Just seems to make a terrible situation all the most distasteful—as if that is even possible considering the life-and-death level of it all