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  • John Grogan | Time to unload on gun stupidity (Triple Philly Socialist Hurl Alert)

    08/04/2006 8:10:39 AM PDT · by 2banana · 45 replies · 1,071+ views
    The Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | August 4th, 2006 | John Grogan
    John Grogan | Time to unload on gun stupidity By John Grogan Inquirer Columnist The funeral, all these years later, sticks with me. There had been an accident involving two boys and a loaded handgun, and I had arrived early for the service. Outside, the undertaker paced, waiting for the family to arrive, and a priest smoked a cigarette, ready to pray. Inside, I stood alone beside a small casket holding an 8-year-old boy, shot through the forehead by his best friend. The details of the death should have been shocking, but they were numbingly familiar: yet another gun brought...
  • Brain-damaged, but still a 'gift'

    03/07/2005 7:30:53 PM PST · by Temple Owl · 64 replies · 1,250+ views
    Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | Mar. 07, 2005 | John Grogan
    By John GroganInquirer Columnist Her name is Millie. She came into this world 55 years ago, a healthy, chubby baby with a shock of dark hair. Her family loved her then, and despite everything - or perhaps because of it - loves her now even more. Millie Reynolds has never spoken a word or returned a smile. Her first tentative baby steps would be her last. Just before her first birthday in 1950, she contracted viral meningitis, with sustained fevers that left her profoundly brain-damaged. The doctors said an institution would be best, but Millie's parents would not listen. They...
  • Philly columnist changes mind on Terri Schiavo (details lead him to side with her parents)

    02/26/2005 5:18:05 AM PST · by ViLaLuz · 127 replies · 2,504+ views
    World Net Daily ^ | Feb. 26, 2005 | World Net Daily
    A Philadelphia Inquirer columnist who believes in the "right to die" has changed his mind about the Terri Schiavo case, pointing to "uncomfortable details" about her estranged husband that now lead him to side with the parents of the brain-damaged Florida woman, who are fighting to keep her alive. John Grogan said in a column published today, "I no longer so blithely believe Schiavo's feeding tubes should be pulled and her life allowed to end. I'm no longer so sure her parents do not deserve a say in their daughter's future. I no longer am totally comfortable assuming her husband,...