Thanks to Martin Longman for enabling me to spend some time with family visitors late last week. My guests are departing tonight, so I might curtail blogging a bit early today, but it’s not like there’s a lot of political news I am ignoring.
Here are some midday news/views scraps I can throw together:
* In a reminder of how far we’ve come, Obama asks retired Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson, whose appointment as the first openly gay bishop touched off a gigantic battle in the Anglican Communion, to say a prayer at the White House Easter Prayer Breakfast.
* Yahoo’s Chris Moody provides an inside look at how Scott Brown is having to reposition himself to run against a different Democratic woman in a different state.
* Not just a southern thing: Wisconsin GOP to debate “right to secession” party plank.
* At TNR Kiera Friedman updates her story about the sexual assault problem at “God’s Harvard,” Patrick Henry College.
* New tensions in Ukraine as pro-Russian separatists seize public buildings in another city.
And in non-political news:
* Southwest flight to Sacramento diverted to Omaha when passenger tried to open the hatch in mid-air.
Aside from being the anniversary of the Titanic sinking and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, today is Loretta Lynn’s 79th birthday. Here she is performing “Success” and “Get Set for a Heartbreak” on Porter Wagoner’s show in the early 1960s.
