weekend update--PS

3-27-2010—The Legion of Christ, a Catholic religious order whose late founder was revealed to have molested young seminarians, formally apologized to his victims.—A1
--Homophobia is the norm throughout Africa.—NYT A4
--Research suggests that women from countries with healthier populations prefer more feminine looking men. WSJ W1
--Even the optics [of Obamacare] must be irritating. A woman (Nancy Pelosi) pushed the health care bill through the House. The bill’s most visible and vocal proponents were a gay man (Barney Frank) and a Jew (Anthony Weiner). And the black man in the White House signed the bill into law. It’s enough to make a good old boy go crazy. ... A Quinnipiac Universitiy poll released on Wednesday took a look at the Tea Party members ... they were disproportionately white, evangelical Christian and “less educated ... than the average Joe and Jane Six-Pac k.” NYT A17