In her post for The Nation, Katha Pollitt makes an unapologetic feminist argument in support of the Obama Administration’s recent order that the Catholic Church fund insurance coverage of birth control for many of those it insures [http://www.thenation.com/article/165978/obama-stands-bishops-finally]. (As Pollitt points out “churches and missions are exempt [from this ruling], but not universities, [...]
“What we have here is a failure to communicate.”
I’m a late adopter of social media and enjoy Facebook. All my cool friends are leaving the page, as is my son. I still think its fun.
Social media allows me and some of my friends to be witty and mutually self-congratulatory. One needs this [...]
I must say, I’m enjoying the Balkanization of the Republican Party. Sometimes in politics one gets to watch marvelous karmic things happen. I’ve grown used to watching my own party disintegrate and snatch defeat from the arms of opportunity. I have participated in endless debates about the relative virtues of ideological purity versus the [...]
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Maybe it was all those Republicans. It would be easy to blame them. There have been more global warming deniers in our state for the past year than is natural for any state. Nature responded by giving us balmy weather. Temperatures reached nearly sixty degrees this week. It didn’t work. The only [...]
A psychologist once suggested to me that my mistrust of ceremony and ritual stemmed from my relationship with my father. Dad could not routinely be counted on to show up at “events,” particularly those which would require superficial conversation. It wasn’t that he disdained them, although that was his posture. He was terrified of [...]
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