Friday, January 29, 2010:

Amanda Marcotte on anti-abortion ads being aired during the Super Bowl. "Florida Gators quarterback Tim Tebow," she wrote, "is trying to marry the hyper-masculine world of football with the hyper-patriarchal belief that women should not have a basic right to control their own fertility."

Betty Clermont, author of The Neo-Catholics: Implementing Christian Nationalism in America, from Clarity Press.

David Heilbroner, one of the directors of "Waiting for Armageddon." There are millions of Evangelical Christians in the US who believe we are living in "the end times." The film exposes the politically powerful - and potentially explosive - alliance between these Evangelical Christians and Israel, and those who believe this alliance will set the stage for what one calls "World War III."