--The FCC has officially stricken the Fairness Doctrine from its books. Sad to say, but I don't think I can really remember a time in my life when the majority of the media portrayed anything fairly.
*--A summary of two years' worth of time spent with the Tea Party.
--Speaking of the Tea Party, might their obstructionism during the debt ceiling debate cost them? Some pollsters think so.
*--The Department of Health and Human Services will require insurance companies to grant women access to contraception, among other things, without copay (religious groups excepted).
*--NPR set off somewhat of a firestorm when a piece on Morning Edition appeared to accept an equivalency between the positions of those who were for and against ex-gay conversion therapy. Religion Dispatches had some things to say about that: here's an opinion from a straight man who went undercover to one of these camps, and here's an essay about how different groups measure the success of these therapies.
--The (supposed) hand of James "Boanerges" the Great is taking a vacation in Reading.
--And Jim Bakker is selling his own breakfast cereal.
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