where have all the flowers gone?

It is perhaps a little funny to think that Rep. Barney Frank owes his seat in Congress, and so his new power as Chair of the House Financial Services Committee, to Pope John Paul II. . . but only a little.

After a weekend where Americans once again had to march to remind elected “leaders” that they could not claim to be fighting an unjust war in our name, I have some thoughts on the passing of Father Robert Drinan.

Those thoughts got a little long, so I moved them over to capitoilette.