It is rare indeed when I suggest heavy reading to you guys.

It’s a call to calm-the-hell-down from a program director at the Catholic University of America.

As long timers around here know, the local Catholic priest and I have a long dark history of testing the limits of righteous indignation.  There’s a standing joke around town that he’s tried to perform an exorcism on me several times, but I ‘m more wiggly than a bucket of fishing worms and he can’t keep ahold of me.

I’m printing this piece of proper thought and taking it over to his secretary today.  If you have a Catholic friend who thinks birth control is wrong but poverty, war, and capital punishment is dandy, you might want to make a copy for yourself to hand out.  Dr. Stephen Schneck does for Catholics what Bill Moyers does for Baptist – keeps you from thinking they are all idiots.

Thanks to Corrine for the heads-up.

Come to find out, the “Son of Detroit” (how many places can this guy claim to be from?) drives a car made in ….. wait for it …. North Detroit, better known as Ontario.

Blue Mass Group made this discovery when it compared the dashboard of the car in Romney’s ad to Chrysler’s specs, and determined that Romney’s was motoring about in the foreign-born 300, instead of the locally manufactured 200. Did no one think to check the birth certificate?

Lucky guy is driving a socialized medicine car.  Or is it an illegal alien car?  Does it have papers?  How do we know it’s not a terrorist?  Who knows what evil lurks in that carburetor?

Awwww, Mitt, you’re making it too easy for Santorum.

Thanks to Carl for the heads-up.

BREAKING NEWS:  It looks like May 29th will be earliest possible date we can have a primary election in Texas.  That would throw the run-off until August.

We finally agreed on state senate seats but we’re still fussin’ over congressional and state house seats.  Republicans think they’re entitled to all of them.

The good news is that State Senator Wendy Davis is going to keep her seat.

More later.

It’s always nice when Texas Christian University (TCU) makes the news —

In an early morning drug bust on the Texas Christian University campus, 17 students were arrested — a record number for the school — for allegedly dealing drugs including marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, acid, and prescription drugs such as Xanax and hydrocodone.

The group includes undergraduate as well as graduate students. Some are members of fraternities, and four of the 17 are on the TCU football team.

Chancellor Boschini wins understatement of the year with his email to students this morning —

“There is no doubt that it will hurt to see our name associated with this type of behavior,” Boschini wrote. “But we must not allow this moment to define us.”

Yeah, they’d much rather be defined by not being Baylor.

I gotta admit, this is a perfectly wonderful lede —

Bible-toting Clermont County politician Archie Wilson surfaced from substance abuse treatment Tuesday to answer charges he traded prescription drugs for sex at a bed bug infested motel.

Wilson, 60, of Batavia Township, pleaded not guilty in Kenton District Court to soliciting prostitution and trafficking in a controlled substance, both misdemeanors that could send him to jail for up to 12 months

Bless his heart, he’s the very first overly zealous morality stalwart to be caught doing something that involves bed bugs.  I guess that’s kinda an honor.

Thanks to Carl for the heads-up.

Okay, so right now this minute the Virgina legislature is trying to make life begin at conception, which, of course, would make birth control pills illegal.

Delegate Vivian E. Watts, Fairfax Democrat, proposed an amendment Monday to ensure that contraception would remain legal, but it was rejected.

They are also trying to copy Texas’ transvaginal ultrasound bill, forcing women to undergo an unnecessary and invasive medical procedure prior to doing something that is perfectly legal.  It’s akin to forcing men to having a rectal exam prior to purchasing a beer.

On the other side, we’re trying to give gay people the same civil rights that the Republicans want to give to fetuses.  They hate that.

Compromise?  When hell freezes over.

Same deal with the parties trying to decide Texas redistricting.  They are back in court today after after spending Valentines Day throwing paper and words at each other.

Republicans are hell bent on cutting Austin into enough pieces to qualify for a jigsaw puzzle.  Democrats are damned and determined to save Congressman Lloyd Doggett’s seat.  This morning they made the point, “You can not totally destroy communities of interest, for one purpose and one purpose only – to get Congressman Doggett.”

I am following this closely because Lloyd Doggett is a fluffy white boy worth saving.

Yesterday, they could have filed stalking charges against me for Michael Li .  Take a shower, check Michael, go to the grocery store, check Michael, post something here, check Michael, eat, check Michael with the other hand.  All day.

Micheal’s website is an amazing opportunity to watch sausage being made.  He and several others are tweeting in the courtroom and even if you don’t have a twitter account, you can follow it.

I love this stuff.  Yes, I do.