I had almost missed this news. Scientists have found a way to make stem cells without using human embryos. This advance supposedly will put an end to the ethical debate. Now all those excess human embryos that were in danger of being used for life-saving medical research can now be flushed down the drain, as has been SOP all along.

This has been the most stupid ethical debate ever. These so-called defenders of life raised holy hell that excess human embryos would be used for research, but they said not a word about how fertility clinics dispose of these embryos on a daily basis. OK to throw them away, but God forbid we use one to cure cancer.

Now that this stupidity is over, it gives rise to even more stupidity as conservatives try to claim they were right all along.

Unreal. Teri Schiavo's husband shows up at a debate featuring Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave, and she wants him thrown out so she doesn't have to look at him:

But just minutes after taking my seat, I noticed a flurry of activity around my seat including about four uniformed police officers who were - I would learn later - called in by Musgrave staffers and asked to remove me from the building.

At this point, I had made no speeches, I had no signs, had made no attempt to disrupt or cause any commotion. I only came into the auditorium, spoke to a dozen or so reporters and took a seat.

To their credit, the police refused the Musgrave campaign's appeal to have me removed.

There's more to come, but I still can't get over even that part. A sitting member of Congress asked the police to remove me - a taxpaying citizen - from a public debate. Obviously, I misunderstand the concept of a political debate. I thought a debate was a place to share ideas, answer questions, defend your record and tell citizens what you've done and what you will do. Marilyn Musgrave believes, I have to gather, that debates are places to have the police remove people who don't agree with you.

After the police talked with obviously irritated Musgrave staffers and the debate organizer, the Musgrave campaign complained that my seat, next to the timekeeper, was inappropriate because - get this - Marilyn Musgrave would have to look at me. In an effort to appease the Musgrave camp, the debate organizers moved the timekeeper to the other side of the stage - about 15 seats away.

If you need to re-read that again, it's okay. A member of Congress who took to the floor of our Congress to speak about my wife, my family and my values made the debate timekeeper move so she wouldn't have to look at me. Just amazing.