Good Friday morning! A few links to get the day rolling:
- A Rasmussen poll this week shows President Obama neck and neck in a hypothetical 2012 match-up against…Ron Paul? If it sounds too good to be true, it is, says Nate Silver, whose own number crunching shows no Republican doing better against Obama than an “unnamed generic candidate” so far.
- Vatican journalist Sandro Magister describes the CDF’s guidelines for handling allegations of sexual abuse. A helpful guide for cutting through the confusion of the scandal.
- Less helpfully, an editorial by Bob Ellis for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation asks, “Why not bomb the Vatican, and riddle the Pope with bullets as he staggers out of the flames?“
- Robert Falcetti’s beautiful images of La Vita Monastica — life at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis in Connecticut. Via the Anchoress.
- I don’t know what to say about this picture of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (Mike Mullen, center). You people come up with your own caption.
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