I haven't been in a blogging mood much lately, due to too much stress, poor health, and general crankiness. But my dear husband continues his role in reading things I never get around to, including the Same Facts (as in "everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts") blog which one of our attorney friends occasionally contributes to. I especially appreciated Mark Kleiman's retort to another non-religious blogger on how to characterize American religiosity in general. Read his rundown of Democratic responses to a religious question. One doesn't come away too encouraged about theological conversation on a public scale. (Of course, the question posed was a little asinine). On the other hand, we've always known that politics is a bad forum for theological conversation. At least Kleiman recognizes that there are faithful people who think about both politics and theology, without resorting to soundbytes.