Sunday funnies?

Carina just mentioned this story to me:

An ovary for a ball: Fair trade, no? Lisa Freedman, a 27-year-old Cleveland lawyer and Barack Obama enthusiast, thinks so. On Tuesday, Freedman posted a Craigslist ad offering her ovary—and that of a friend—in exchange for two tickets to an inaugural ball. “We’ve exhausted all my legitimate means of finding a ticket by begging our campaign staffer friends, so we thought we would try this,” says Freedman. “Also, neither of us are currently using an ovary.”
- NBC

Yes, it all fits perfectly. What better way to celebrate Obama's triumphal entry than to sell your dignity right?

And here's the famous Catholic Obama-supporter Doug Kmiec's eulogy of Fr Neuhaus; it's less about Fr Neuhaus and more about himself. From Jay Anderson, with his comments:

... In the last half year or so, Father Neuhaus and I had a public colloquy – disagreement really -- over the issue of how best to lessen the scourge of abortion. While there were times when I thought his words took on an unfortunate edge of political discourse, [ED.: Imagine that. Political disagreements taking on the "edge of political discourse". Poor Dougie, ever the martyr. And it's not like Kmiec's discourse ever took on an "unfortunate edge", right?] I shall forever remember this priest as a friend. A convert to the Catholic faith, Father Neuhaus was also responsible for a very successful effort, on the conservative side of the ledger, to build a bridge of respect between the Catholic and evangelical traditions. That alliance in itself is an invaluable legacy.

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Recently, of course, millions have expressed their hope for change of historic proportion in electing Barack Obama. Father Neuhaus was not in Obama’s column during the campaign, but I am confident he would have sought out opportunities to support the new President’s efforts to establish economic justice and to advance the cause of peace. But Father John would have remained steadfast in his call to America to “change” and give full support to human life.

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Roe is mistaken constitutional law, because it's not based on the Constitution or any tradition or custom implicit within its terms, and on this, Father Neuhaus and I agreed. We differed over the likelihood and the impact of Roe’s reversal. Being in the presence of God, as I am confident Richard John Neuhaus surely is, the good father now knows which of us was right. I pray he was if Roe is overturned not with the kind of false judicial restraint that then leaves the states free to do whatever they want, but with a judicial fidelity to and reaffirmation of the “unalienable right to life” in the Declaration of Independence.

I think Jay Anderson sums it up best when he calls it "Tasteless. Unbecoming. Insensitive. Not to mention utterly false and nonsensical."