So it’s nearing closing time at the Evangelical Bar and Grill and the pickin’s are gettin’ mighty slim: 2 moderate Mormons, a twice-divorced Catholic convert, a dowdy Catholic true-believer, a diminished Dominionist […]
Cat White
Today I get treated like the 1%
Today I will get treated like the 1%. That is, the 1% of the world that are terrorists. Today, I am flying from Cleveland to Albuquerque. This sure isn’t what I thought […]
The transplant equation
I find myself in the uncomfortable position of waiting for someone to die–someone that I don’t know and will never meet. That person has to die so that someone I know can […]
What my dad taught me–and I learned (and didn't)
My dad, David Morgan White, died last September. September 12 at just after 10 in the evening, to be more precise. I had been with him for most of the previous 60 […]
Pawlenty tests the bottom of the swamp
Today Tim Pawlenty said “We can start by applying what I call ‘The Google Test.’ If you can find a good or service on the Internet, then the federal government probably doesn’t […]
The “education” dilemma: defining the problem
How do we know if a student is sufficiently “educated”? Think about that for a minute. Did any of these come to mind? “They graduated from high school.” “They got into a […]
Culture Wars on Bourbon Street
The kettle is black: "Mormon socialism" and other anomalies
This headline stopped me in my tracks: “The case for Book of Mormon socialism.” Wait a minute, I thought, that’s got to be a mistake. After all, Mitt Romney’s a Mormon and […]
Sorry girls, that 14th Amendment wasn't intended for you
I had to drop what I was doing this morning when I sat the headline “Scalia: Women Don’t Have Constitutional Protection Against Discrimination” (article here). Surely it was an exaggerated come-on piece […]
Rally to "restore sanity"?
So was this a sane idea? I posed that question over pasta after the rally. I attended the rally with my husband, John, and his daughter, Ann, who lives right outside DC. […]
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