An informative piece at CNN.com updates readers about what’s going on in the Terri Schiavo case and captures some of the insane wrangling that the case has inspired.
On the brink
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A shoutout to another Irish saint
I just arrived in midtown Manhattan and I really think the website for this smallish hotel should have noted that it is next to an Irish bar. Getting to bed early tonight is not going to be easy. This is going to be worse than being in the hotel room next to the ice machine at an Episcopal Church convention.
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A brief paean to Firefox
It’s been an especially busy week for all three editors of GetReligion, which affected our ability to post a fresh item today.
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Broken Communion story rolls on -- in England
There have been times, during recent decades, when plot developments in the Anglican Communion drama have become so complicated that I have been tempted to open columns with a written cue for a swirl of organ music under the caption “As Canterbury Turns.”
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Everybody loves to see justice done -- on somebody else
In the next day or so, much fuss likely will be made about how the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops has agreed to a one-year moratorium on approving any newly elected bishops.
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I hurl quote marks in your general direction
GetReligion tweaked Keith Olbermann when he turned an e-mail campaign by Focus on the Family into national news on his weeknight MSNBC newscast. Liz Halloran of the Hartford Courant revisits the Olbermann-Focus battle of darkness and light in an email Q&A.
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Who wrote this?
A curious op-ed appeared during the weekend in The Dallas Morning News. The author began by telling readers that, “Barring some kind of miracle, the forced starvation of Terri Schiavo will begin Friday.”
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Hey, ACLU folks, check out these rites
You are in a laboratory on a state university campus, in facilities funded with a stream of tax dollars. The dark room is full of medical students, taking part in a sacred ritual that will end a required course in Gross Anatomy.
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Pre-glurge heroism
Urban Dictionary defines glurge as “syrupy sweet e-mails that are mass-mailed to unwilling participants” that usually involve “puppies, kitties, children with disabilities, puppies and kitties with disabilities, and Jesus.” Glurge also is a category at Snopes.com.
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