Metaphor Alert

A spoonful of anal lubricant makes the medicine go down

Obamacare sign up info distributed along with condoms and anal lubricant.

They're not that kind of nuns

Thinkprogress, the George Soros funded website, used the following photos to illustrate its story regarding the Supreme Court amicus curiae brief in support of Obamacare recently filed by 21 religious sisters:

It seemed to me unlikely that the sisters who filed the amicus brief resembled the sisters in Thinkprogress's photos, so I looked them up.  Here they are.  Notice any differences?

Margaret Byrne, CSJP

Simone Campbell, SSS

Janice Cebula, OSF

Nancy Conway, CSJ

Jacquelyn Doepker, OSF (foreground)

Gemma Doll, OP

Rose Mary Dowling, FSM

Patricia Farrell, OSF

Mary Genino, RSHM

Gladys Guenther, SHF

Beatrice Haines, OLVM (far right)

Mary Ellen Holohan, SNJM (standing, right)

Gloria Marie Jones, OP (fourth from left)

Attracta Kelly, OP

Patricia McDermott, RSM

Joan Mumaw, IHM

Mary Pellegrino, CSJ (left)

Mary Rehmann, CHM (left)

Theresa Sandok, OSM (right)

Nancy Schreck, OSF (right)

Mary Ann Zollmann, BVM (center)

For one thing, my dictum concerning earring dangliness appears to apply (to those who are wearing earrings).

For another, as the Thinkprogress people seem to grasp instinctively, political cover for Obamacare is provided best by the kind of religious sisters who wear habits.  Unfortunately for Obamacare partisans, that's not the kind of religious sister who filed the amicus brief.   So the Thinkprogress people resolved their dilemma by telling a bit of a lie.

The US Bishops are hypocrites

We'll go into the dubious circumstances of this organization's creation at another time

That, alas, is the very word, since the bishops preach one course to others while following a different course themselves.  I fear their hypocrisy dooms the bishops' opposition to Obamacare, since it prevents them from grasping that it would still be unconstitutional for the government to compel the purchase of health insurance, even if certain exemptions were to be granted the bishops themselves.  The Fifth Column has more here.

RELATED:  Christopher Manion argues that the bishops should have seen this coming.