Links I found interesting for 17-03-2013

Rob Portman and the politics of narcissism.
The great challenge for a senator isn't to go to Washington and represent the problems of his own family. It's to try to obtain the intellectual and moral perspective necessary to represent the problems of the people who don't have direct access to the corridors of power. Senators basically never have poor kids. That's something members of Congress should think about.
(tags: Uspolitics sexandgenderandsexuality )
Bigger Than You Think: the Vatican and its Annexes
Strange Maps untangles the pontifical cartography.
(tags: maps pope )