What to Expect When You’re Expecting is . . . [a] timid comedy full of stock characters and clichéd humor with endings never in doubt, it wants to tell you every detail of pregnancy but none of life.

You will need an epidural just to get through the flick.

I’ll pass. Anyhow I have my own birth stories to tell, and have told them. And I’m not even a mother.

Irish come out fighting

Hopey changey not working out at Notre Dame. Nothing says more about this most obvious overreaching by the boy president.

Give a look at some nuts and bolts of it, noting while you are at it, this pungency:

The [legal] background [of the HHS mandate] is farcical. It represents administrative law brought to us by Laurel and Hardy, or Professor Irwin Corey, or the dictator of that Central American country featured in Woody Allen’s Bananas.

There are 12 suits, of course, each identically worded. Chicago is not suing, but from Illinois, Springfield and Joliet are suing. Can you imagine Chicago getting really serious about fighting Obama and the Dimmycrats?

Cardinal George and his archdiocese are

“ . . . obviously deeply concerned about preserving the Catholic identity of Catholic educational, health care and social service organizations,” George said in a statement. “The Archdiocese therefore entirely supports the actions of the Catholic dioceses and organizations that have brought suit against the Department of Health and Human Services for violating the heretofore constitutionally guaranteed religious freedom of Catholic institutions.”

Nicely, if professorially, said. But not part of the suit? Why not?

Chicago police

Chief McCarthy just now on Roe, WLS-AM: terrific. Police did great job with protests, his discussing it with Roe was muy impressive. Nice to win one for once, and big feather in cap of Rahm, who stayed way back and did not let himself be drawn into media commentary. Contrast it with Richie M. Huge difference.

Black studies in focus

Heresy:

African American Studies has a leaden foot on the victimhood pedal, and its premise is rarely questioned.

You can lose your job with talk like that.

God forgives sins? We hear that all the time, from hundreds of preachers. But God condemns sins and forgives sinners. Not theology or Scriptural accuracy here (hardly) but simple (not that it’s a simple thing to achieve) clarity.

Or the priest or lector prays for those suffering every misfortune. No. No one suffers every misfortune. He wants to say any misfortune. It’s hard to corroborate his prayer with “Lord, hear our prayer” in answer to such non-sense.

Of course, there’s the time-honored forgive us our trespasses, isn’t there? But forgive our trespasses we don’t say, now do we?

Think about it.

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Two black parishes

Chi’s St. Philip Neri Parish 100 years and counting. Jubilee Mass tomorrow, Sunday May 20, 10 a.m., Cardinal George presiding, 2132 E. 72nd St., (773) 363-1700 for more info.

Bob Keeley called about it. He’s always calling about parishes and schools in Chi. A holy bother, you might say. He also put in a word for St. Elizabeth School on the black South Side, where money and supplies and building upkeep he says are in short supply. Help, help.