I'm a little late on this

But if you haven't seen what Sen. Cornyn, a Republican from Texas (of course) said the other day regarding the Schiavo controversy, then you're in for a treat. Basically the man was justifying attacks on judges due to their sometimes "active" judicial rulings. Here's the money quote:

I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. Certainly nothing new, but we seem to have run through a spate of courthouse violence recently that's been on the news and I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters on some occasions where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in - engage in violence.

Just to let you know, Cornyn is a former District Court judge, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court, and the former Texas Attorney General. Talk about forgetting your roots.

Finally someone says it. . .

Andrew Sullivan is back (not really) and better than ever (not really). But check this shit, yo:

Last night on Hardball , I said what I think needs to be said. Under John Paul II (and his predecessors), the Roman Catholic church presided over the rape and molestation of thousands of children and teenagers. Under John Paul II, the church at first did all it could to protect its own and to impugn and threaten the victims of this abuse. Rome never acknowledged, let alone take responsibility for, the scale of the moral betrayal. I was staggered to see Cardinal Bernard Law holding press conferences in Rome this week, and appearing on television next to the man who announced the Pope's death. But that was the central reaction of the late Pope to this scandal: he sided with the perpetrators, because they were integral to his maintenance of power. When you hear about this Pope's compassion, his concern for the victims of society, his love of children, it's important to recall that when it came to walking the walk in his own life and with his own responsibility, he walked away. He all but ignored his church's violation of the most basic morality - that you don't use the prestige of the church to rape innocent children. Here was a man who lectured American married couples that they could not take the pill, who told committed gay couples that they were part of an "ideology of evil," but acquiesced and covered up the rape of minors. When truth met power, John Paul II chose truth. When truth met his power, John Paul II defended his own prerogatives at the expense of the innocent. Many have forgotten. That's not an option for the victims of this clerical criminality.

I Know It's Calling the Kettle Black. . .

But come on people, where's all the news? Pope this, Pope that. I understand the deathwatch that took over the news channels and such, but at this point I think we can start focusing on other news. How's Iraq doing, anyway? Michael Jackson? Gary Condit?