Rehnquist hospitalized

According to the Associated Press, Fox News and every other breaking news media, Chief Justice William Rehnquist has been hospitalized with a fever.

Now. That might seem like no big deal. Perhaps it isn't. But remember that he has been going through chemotherapy treatments for his thyroid cancer and that virtually eradicates the immune system. So in any other situation, one's immune system would kick in and take care of whatever bug is causing the infection and fever. With little to no immune system, however, it can literally ravage anything from your lungs with pneumonia to your blood with some kind of septic shock.

Prayers for the Chief Justice, wisdom to his doctors, restraint to the media in their rush to morbid speculation.