After a heads up from Rush Limbaugh earlier today that there would be an Ann Coulteresque figure on this evenings Law & Order (which I never watch) I decided to tune in. Actually the entire show was about ESC research, complete with a defendant with Parkinsons who went off his meds – ala Michael J. Fox – in order to gain sympathy from the jury. He was charged with attempting to murder the Ann Coulter like figure who was giving a talk at a college campus opposing ESC research (though I’ve never noticed Ann mention stem cell research, at least not in her columns). When he shot he ultimately missed her and killed another person. I did not notice that it was overly sypathetic to the pro-ESC research position. The jury found the character guilty of murder in the 2nd degree after he admitted that he tried to kill the woman because she thought that the lives of embryos in a petri dish were just as valuable as his life, shouting, “I’m better than them!” The defense attourney even made the point that there was no evidence that ESCs would ever produce a cure for Parkinsons. It was interesting anyway, not at all the way I thought it would go when I first turned it on.