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Falwell funeral and legacy

Your blogstress, alas, has been much too busy making a living lately to attend to her life's work of making the world safe for libertines. For instance, she has not been able to find a minute to craft a witty take-down of Newt Gingrich 's hysterical commencement address to the 2007 class of Liberty University, part of the legacy left behind by the late Rev. Jerry Falwell . For Newt's part, the serial adulterer decried a culture of "radical secularism" that has gripped the nation. (Read more here , in an amusing piece by Michael Shear . You cybertrix prays that Newt enters the Republican presidential race. What fun that would be! On a more serious note, you'll surely want to reconsider the legacy of Rev. Falwell in light of this thoughtful op-ed piece by your écrivaine 's dear friend, Hans Johnson and his good friend, William Eskridge . The Falwell funeral will commence at 1:00 p.m. at Rev. Falwell's Thomas Road Baptist Church. You can watch it

When the White House press operation isn't enough...

...there's the Christian Newswire . Today, at The American Prospect Online, your blogstress shows you how the White House is using your tax dollars to add to the bottom line of a religious-right p.r. operation run by a former spokesperson for murders of doctors who perform abortions. (And you were just upset about the $1 billion spent so far to advance "abstinence-only" sex education.)