Is it the Democratic Party, or the Donner Party?

Here is a right-on analysis not only of the Rush Limbaugh/Michael J. Fox flap, but of the stem cell controversy itself.

Doug Powers, its author, has a point: the logic of the pro-stem cell argument is exactly the argument that led certain members of the Donner Party to kill and eat other members of the Donner Party. Except that it's perhaps not quite as compelling when the people who would benefit aren't facing death from starvation in the short term.