Vatican: Washing Machines More Liberating than the Pill for Women

Michele Hanson in the Guardian UK: To mark International Women’s Day, L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s official newspaper, has graciously commented on women’s lib for us. Its editorial decrees that the washing machine has contributed more to the emancipation of western women than the pill, or the legalisation of abortion, or being able to work outside [...]

Woman Excommunicated for Daughter’s Abortion

This is an unbelievable story. It’s a few days old, but I hadn’t heard about it before. I just saw it reported on CNN. A Brazilian archbishop says all those who helped a child rape victim secure an abortion are to be excommunicated from the Catholic Church. The girl, aged nine, who lives in the [...]

Is Barack Obama an Intellectual?

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. – H. L. Mencken “As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land [...]

Working in a Cole Mind

As many of you know, I was a regular at Balloon Juice until they started mainlining Haterade last year like so many other lefty blogs.  That’s why I was amused to read this post from yesterday by John Cole: On a serious note, the last few years have been really eye opening for me.  I [...]

Monday: Obama says blogs don’t count

Obama gave an interview to the NYTimes recently.  Nice!  As I understand it, the NYTimes has been working on that “get” for awhile now.  He’s been avoiding them for some reason.  He says the stimulus package is what it is and we shouldn’t expect any more, even though the bankers can get as much money [...]