“The Catholic Diocese of Sacramento no longer will fund programs at Francis House, a nonprofit agency that serves homeless people, because of its new director’s views supporting abortion rights and gay marriage.” [Sacramento Bee, via @pourmecoffee]

“I really believe we should treat marijuana the way we treat beverage alcohol. I’ve never used marijuana and I don’t intend to, but it’s just one of those things that I think: this war on drugs just hasn’t succeeded.” [NYT]

We never met Derrick Bell. But we were around.

Bell came to Eugene in 1980, our senior year, as the new dean of the University of Oregon law school — and one of the first black deans of a non-black law school in the nation. Everybody was so proud, because that’s the kind of thing Eugene likes to be proud about.

Especially when a single black family moving to town would significantly increase Eugene’s diversity quotient. We were all nice people. But in Eugene, we were predominately nice white people.

Or, as we liked saying at the time: It’s easy to be Tolerant when there’s little to bother being Tolerant about.

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Our guest columnist is Preznident of These United States in an alternate universe.

Women have a lot to lose under Obamacare, and I’ll give you an example. If you want to go into specifics, what the government can give, the government can take away. It certainly isn’t beyond the pale to think, in light of Kathleen Sebelius, the Health and Human Services Secretary — she said that it’s important that we have contraceptives because that prevents pregnancy, and pregnancy is more expensive to the federal government.

Going with that logic, according to our own Health and Human Services Secretary, it isn’t far-fetched to think that the President of the United States could say, we need to save health care expenses — the federal government will only pay for one baby to be born in the hospital per family, or two babies to be born per family. That could happen. We think it couldn’t?…

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“Karl Rove mockingly dismissed the value of Sarah and Todd Palin’s endorsements on a private conference call today, noting that their backing of Newt Gingrich in Alaska ‘demonstrated that endorsements don’t mean snot.'” Mitt Romney won Alaska last night. Gingrich came in fourth. [BuzzFeed, via Political Wire]

“One of the biggest — and most overlooked — surprises of Tuesday night was in a northeast Ohio Republican congressional primary. There, Samuel Wurzelbacher, who is better known from campaign 2008 as ‘Joe the Plumber,’ almost lost his House bid to an obscure auctioneer named Steve Kraus — when the dust settled, Wurzelbacher escaped with a narrow 51 to 48 percent victory.” [Politico]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1huadpHcjk

Let’s check in with Stinque senior political analyst Horatio Hippo on the seven hours of Super Tuesday coverage we watched.

[via Sully]