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Hey, Faddah! Who you callin' a feminist?

Check out your blogstress's riff on the anti-reproductive rights group, Feminists for Life, today at The American Prospect Online . There you will learn of the group's deceptive ad campaign, aimed at young women, and its relationship to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

What say the church?
Foley's priestly nemesis tells some

Were any further evidence needed of the spiritual bankruptcy of 21-century America, one might look to the Mark Foley scandal, where the vicissitudes of secular politics -- a realm in which the Roman Catholic Church wields no small measure of power -- have rubbed up against the sanctimony of the church in a most unbecoming way, reviving a scandal of its own that church fathers likely thought they had put to bed with a flood of money paid out to the victims of sexually predatory priests. Mr. Foley, you'll recall, sought to, at best, explain his sexual harassment of young men (or, at worst, to excuse it) by revealing, through his attorney, that in his teen years Foley himself had been molested by a Catholic priest. This week, the Sarasota Herald-Tribune tracked down a priest who admitted to having a sexual relationship with the young Foley who was, at the time, an altar boy. The church has yet to comment. Most telling in the the Herald-Tribune 's interview with Foley's f