In a wing-nut world, Granny is toast

Today's column by Ellen Goodman is great:

We now have "The Birthers" manufacturing myths that President Obama was not born in the United States and therefore is serving illegally. They are following the business plan of those earlier entrepreneurs selling the idea that Obama had killed his grandma. Consider the scare-biz Internet scribe who penned the memorable line: "Obama flies to Hawaii to visit his grandmother and just a few days later she winds up dead. Coincidence?"

But now the industry has ratcheted up from accusing Obama of killing his grandma to accusing him of trying to kill your grandma.

...All in all, Fearmongers Inc. plays on the notion that advance directives are a sneaky way of cutting costs by cutting life short.