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March 31, 2014 | | FIELD OF DREAMS Mike Barnicle wants you take out your glove. On opening day, let's pay homage to the game that shouts "slow down" to America. Stop tweeting, texting, blogging, watching cable news, and obsessing about polls, lost planes, and focus group-driven politicians. Listen to the game, put the winter coat back in the closet, go outside, enjoy the sunshine, and enjoy life. D-DAY The latest enrollment figurers show the numbers of insured Americans on the rise but that that won't stop Republicans from bashing the Affordable Care Act, writes Michael Tomasky. While the GOP may skewer Obamacare, the hard truth is most Americans have accepted the law. More importantly, millions of people are getting health coverage for the first time in their lives. FORGIVE ME, FATHER The Vatican Bank has been fraught with scams and corruption for decades, but it looks like Pope Francis may actually be trying to clean up the holy coffers, writes Tom Kington. When two dapper gentlemen tried to bluff their way into the Vatican Bank earlier this month, police were actually called to investigate, unheard of decades earlier when the bank was allegedly involved with mafioso money laundering. COLONIALISM'S GHOST Western LGBT advocates may actually be doing more harm than good in Africa by expressing a sense of moral superiority that hearkens back to the days of colonialism, writes Jay Michaelson. Anti-gay leaders in Uganda, Kenya, Nigeria, Cameroon, Ethiopia, and Sierra Leone have all, within the last month, called gay rights a "Western" innovation that must be resisted in order to preserve "traditional African values." There's a better way. AU REVOIR France's government resigned Monday, and President Francoise Hollande is expected to announce a new cabinet and prime minister after his Socialist party suffered major losses in Sunday's elections. In Sunday's municipal elections, Socialists lost in 155 towns with more than 9,000 inhabitants. The center-right Union for a Popular Movement captured several cities, including Toulouse, while the far-right National Front captured 11 towns of more than 9,000 people. The only good news for the Socialists was in Paris, where Anne Hidalgo is set to become the city's first female mayor. | | 
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