While it always irks me when non-Catholics take a jab at the church, I’m always pleased when Catholics rage about bad policies and practices. Andrew Sullivan has been all over this new pope and his gay priest witch hunts. Here’s a post about how Brokeback Mountain is going to pose a threat to Benedict.

Are the collective efforts of the Internet readers a superior form of fact checking? Judge Posner had made that claim in the Times a few months ago. But the latest debacle in Wikipedia had lead to many questions about accuracy in the blogosphere. Interestingly, most bloggers have passed on this issue even though almost every paper has had at least one article on the topic.