Mrs. Betty Bowers' Words of Christian Concern:
Is Rehab Replacing Jesus as America's Favorite Vehicle for Instantaneous
Forgiveness?

This hasn't been a particularly good week for crazy people and their
malodorous fluids, has it? First, Astronaut Lisa Nowak is found diapered in
her own filth trying to end a life. Next, Space Cadet Anna Nicole Smith is
found covered in her own vomit after ending her own.

According to the 4,598 breathlessly urgent news reports last night, Anna
Nicole's nurse found her employer unconscious. How she was able to tell is
anyone's guess. Truly, it makes one despair for the state of health care in
this country when a 39 year-old traveling with her own private nurse can't
get a simple heroin dosage right. But we shouldn't be too quick to impugn
the no doubt frazzled nurse's skills. After all, it must have taken a
trained eye to discern that Anna was actually unconscious instead of just
giving another cataleptic interview to Entertainment Tonight.

Between a baby-talking Anna in Hollywood and a diaper-wearing astronaut in
Orlando, Florida has, once again, shown its knack for taking an unfair share
of the available crazy. As my dear Sister-in-Christ Mrs. Patsy Ramsey,
formerly of Boulder, CO., once authoritatively opined: