Help Me Reach 12 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender   Friday,
August 14, 2009  The Opinuary Column  The Opinion "Discussing
end-of-life issues is a reasonable approach to an ineluctable
reality" has died from Cultural Asphyxiation. Attempts to
resuscitate the deceased were shouted down by standers-by who
totally got off on its very public demise.  The Opinion, born
during the age of Socrates, leaves no descendants who are even
remotely considering issuing a statement, for fear of being
trampled to death by a herd of bewildered elderly citizens.
Standing resolutely atop the Opinion's coffin is Americonned's
Queen of the Daft, the great Fearmonger Priestess Sarah Palin,
who was in favor of end-of-life directives before she was
against them. Using only a Bowie knife, helicopter gunships and
cable news outlets as her weapons, Ms. Palin high-kicked her way
across the treacherous tundra as she tracked down and single-
handedly killed the subversive idea that citizens might benefit
from having access to informatio