October Surprise: A sermon on the mound
Tonight, World Series fans, you will get to view the latest in the paid political advertising entertainment served up for the mid-term election stem-cell wars of the Cardinals' home state. Watching, on YouTube, a fuzzy preview of the ad -- which was apparently thrown together in response to Michael J. Fox 's latest star turn as an advocate for stem-cell research -- your blogstress felt the hand of Mother Church orchestrating this video confab of right-wing Roman Catholic sort-of celebrities. Now, your Webwench is not saying that she knows for a fact that Big Ma is behind this whole thing; that grail continues to elude her. However, her ears pricked up at the mention of the name of Patricia Heaton , whose face graces the misleading Feminists for Life ad that has run on various political Web sites -- including that of The American Prospect Online , for which your cybertrix writes -- off and on for the last month. As your écrivaine reported for The Prospect 's site la...