European superiority no doubt. A woman is suspected of having killed two babies and possibly more, the tiny corpses hidden in buckets of concrete and others wrapped in plastic in a freezer.

If tried and convicted of murder, the woman could face at least 10 years in prison, Austria's minimum standard sentence for homicide. Austria has no death penalty.

But prosecutors in the province of Styria, where Graz is the regional capital, suggested Monday she could face a lesser sentence, noting that the punishment for killing a newborn baby is five years' imprisonment. [Emphasis mine.]

Meanwhile, the Globe and Mail worries that Americans are religious zealots because they -- gasp -- "Americans profess unquestioning belief in God and are far more willing to mix faith and politics than people in other countries, AP-Ipsos polling found."

Even if you are sceptical that a poll of "about 1000" people can reliably represent any more than the collective opinions of about 1000 people, and you accept no link to the poll to question the date, the time of the poll, the methodology, or the questions, it's no great surprise that the purpose of the poll was to question the input of religious leaders into politics. This, no doubt, is a prelude to passage of same-sex marriage in Canada in defiance of the Canadian public. Cutting off the debate as it were.