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Different Worlds
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging, Uncategorized on April 30th, 2012
One of my husband’s favorite stories about his college years concerns a wealthy fraternity brother who, upon learning of the pregnancy of another member’s wife, congratulated him and asked him whether the happy couple had hired a governess yet. A couple of days ago, Mitt Romney spoke to a group of college students worried about [...]
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OMGs of the Day…
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 27th, 2012
Sometimes, it’s really hard to choose the most appalling news of the day. I could begin with the continued embarrassment that is Dick Lugar’s campaign. Yesterday, Lugar was one of 31 (male) Republican Senators who voted against reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act; evidently, “true Indiana conservatives” consider laws against wife-beating an infringement of [...]
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Nimble We Aren’t
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 26th, 2012
There is a report in this morning’s Indianapolis Star–buried between breathless reports about the Colt’s new quarterback, true, but an actual story with real news in it–about efforts to address Indianapolis’ longstanding sewer problem. When it rains, tons of raw sewage are dumped into our water supply. Citizens, which bought the water and sewer utilities [...]
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Romney Sells What’s Left of His Soul
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 23rd, 2012
If there is any lingering doubt that Mitt Romney has sold what passes for his soul to the extreme right, his appointment of Robert Bork as his “legal advisor” should remove it. I remember when Bork’s nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by the Senate in a vote that included several Republicans. I was [...]
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Bishops, Nuns and Righteousness
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on April 22nd, 2012
One of the criticisms regularly leveled at organized religion is that theological rigidity and ritual formalities inevitably crowd out human compassion and the thirst for justice. Enter the Vatican, and its recent reprimand of American nuns for emphasizing issues of health care and social welfare over same-sex marriage and contraception. As (Catholic) Andrew Sullivan writes [...]
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