A new article in the Christian Science Monitor trumpets that abortion is becoming a major issue in the 2012 Presidential campaign. The Republican candidates are all stating and restating their opposition to legal abortion while at the same time the Obama administration is enforcing rules broadening access to contraception, bringing his views on contraception and [...]

Okey-dokey. I need to think this thing through and I’m going to use this handy-dandy blog of mine to do so. Bear with me here, because I suspect I’m about to reveal some inconsistencies in my own belief structure. Or maybe just areas where different facets of my belief structure overlap in ways that make [...]

I’ve been meaning to write about All American Muslim for a while. The show debuted on TLC right around the time I wrote about my misgivings about the Duggars and someone who commented on that post challenged me to compare the roles of of women in the families on All American Muslim with the roles [...]

So. The Super Committee. Yeah. Let’s stop calling them “super”, shall we? It was so nice to think of this bi-partisan group of Congressional budget experts, a super squad of deficit crusaders, sitting in a conference room in the Capitol with reams of paper and some adding machines, working diligently to assure our national financial [...]

There are rumblings in the reproductive choice world. Ominous ones. The kind of rumblings that are the beginnings of a drumbeat, a steady march to the steps of the Supreme Court where the anti-choice contingent hopes for a ruling that will overturn Roe v. Wade. And they are willing to do it in a manner [...]

OK, this is going to be one of those posts that sounds like the insane rantings of an angry wanna-be policy wonk. Probably because that’s exactly what this is. I am angry and I know just enough about law and government to have a pretty good idea of why I’m angry. And my anger has [...]

There’s a great New Yorker cartoon that shows a couple of dogs wearing suits in a boardroom and they’re saying “It’s not enough that we succeed. Cats must also fail.” Apart from the natural questions this raises like what sort of business are the dogs in and how does a dog go to the bathroom [...]

I’ve been putting off writing about Occupy Wall Street because I’m not sure what to say about it. I’m not even sure how to feel about it. But I feel like something needs to be said so here goes. For those who don’t know, Occupy Wall Street is an ad hoc group of dissatisfied citizens [...]

Not sure if you all heard that we were once again within a week of the government running out of money for operations. Yep. The current fiscal year (FY11) ends on the 30th and Congress does not have a plan for how to spend the budgeted funds for FY12. No plan. None at all. Instead [...]

Last night was the premier of Sister Wives, one of my favorite voyeuristic pleasures. For those not in the know (and you should be proud of that), Sister Wives is the story of a family that practices plural marriage, known more commonly as polygamy. The show is cagey about what religion they actually practice but [...]