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Looks Like I Chose the Right Profession After All
OK, now I get why Bill O’Reilly wants to be a historian. Newt Gingrich’s rise in the polls hit a bump when Bloomberg revealed that Newt had accepted $1.6 million to act as a lobbyist for Freddie Mac, the hybrid … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
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The Pope Hates This Picture
That’s part of an “Unhate” campaign from Benetton. They got heat from the Vatican about it, and they pulled the image of the Pope. But why just that one? Why is it more offensive for the Pope to be photoshopped … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Current Events, Politics
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David Brooks is Blaming Woodstock
To the similarities between the Penn State pedophilia scandal and the Catholic pedophilia scandal, we can now add the “blame Woodstock” defense. You may remember that the Catholic Church has blamed the “moral laxness” of modern society for the actions … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Morality
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Sports and Religion
The most painful and frustrating parts of William Lobdell’s account of being a religious journalist, Losing My Religion, are the parts where he’s dealing with parishioners defending priests who have confessed to, or been convicted of, child molestation. Despite the … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Current Events
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UK bans Muslim protest group
Theresa May, the British Home Secretary, has banned a Muslim group named Muslims Against Crusades, which was planning to protest Armistice Day and burn poppies. Perhaps for them there’s a symbolic tie-in between the poppy fields of Northern France and … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Islam, Politics
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Ireland Closes Vatican Embassy
Ireland just gave a middle finger to the Catholic church, and it’s a bit shocked. They closed down their embassy to the Vatican because the fees were too expensive. Imagine that. Well, and I’d guess the whole priests-raping-their-children thing might … Continue reading
Posted in Catholicism, Current Events
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Family Guy & Domestic Violence
The other night Family Guy had an episode that focused on domestic violence, and many are saying it went “too far”: What do you think?
Posted in Current Events, Questions
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Camping’s Fallout
Another week, and another doomsday prediction has come and gone. Harold Camping has been predicting for years that October 21st would be the final day of the Earth’s existence, and he held to that even after his May 21st Rapture … Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, Current Events
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Satan is Occupying Wall Street
Cindy Jacobs is always ready to give us the lunatic’s view of current events. (via Scotteriology) Meanwhile Jay Smooth has a slightly more stable view of the protests and the media response: (via Balloon Juice) Let me just throw in … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Videos
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Rush's New Friends
On Friday, the Obama administration announced that they had sent 100 armed military advisers into central Africa in order to help local forces combat a paramilitary group called the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) (No, not that LRA, she’s in Texas.) … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events
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