Soundbites

One more reason Kim Davis is not going to be a martyr:  she's lost FoxNews.

And one more reason we should revive the study of Classics (if J.K. Rowling wasn't proof enough):  so we stop reinventing the wheel (people with excessive overconfidence tend to succeed?  The Greeks taught us that 2500 years ago.  Yes, they may also fail spectacularly, but success and failure are inextricably linked.).

To complete the triad, we recall that politics is the means by which people resolve their difference within an institution, be that government or church.  And we learn, once again, that yes, the Roman Catholic Church also embodies politics.  What's interesting is how much the discussion within the Vatican on what is "true Church teaching" resembles discussions in America on what is "true Constitutional interpretation," complete with appeals to the "Founding Fathers" (who were no more of one mind than we are today) and the certainty that there is only one Church teaching for any given subject (or at least of the "important" ones, whatever they are).

"But Sordello and my Sordello?"