weekend update

3-28-2010—The sin-crazed [Cardinal Ratzinger] was so consumed with sexual mores—issuing constant instructions on chastity, contraception, abortion—that he didn’t make time for curbing sexual abuse by priests who were supposed to pray with, not prey on, their young charges. –NYT, Dowd
--In the long run, the project of measuring “intelligence” probably did more than eugenics to stigmatize and hold back the nonwhite.—NYT BK, 9.
--Two lower courts have ruled that 2007 Texas law, which imposes a $5per-visit on people who visit the state’s roughly 170 strip clubs, is unconstitutional.—WSJA3
--“Whose career do you admire?” Craig Ferguson: Let’s see. I guess, the early death of Albert Camus was tragic. But I liked the act that he played goalkeeper and was also a troubled existentialist. ... “Which are you more accomplished at, sports or philosophy?” CF: Oh, existentialism, no doubt. When I see a ball coming towards me I wonder if it’s really a ball. WSJ W2
--But for the moment [with the passage of Obamacare] our federal overlords have ruled. We better start adjusting to our new status as Europeans. --Ind. Gov. Mitch Daniels WSJ A19 [oh Mitch, we wish!!]
--If Republicans don’t want America to follow Britain and Canada down the road to socialized medicine... –Phil Gramm Ibid. [please, GOP just follow your leaders to hell...]
--Do we want to go the way of Western Europe?—La. Gov. Jindal Ibid. [see above; go back to India, pal...]