AAR Montreal photos

My view(s) for the day as I stayed in today, furiously reworking my paper for tomorrow’s presentation. It’s looking better now; fewer outlandish claims and unsupported theses; fewer theses altogether as well. I still have one outlandish and provocative phrase that I’m debating cutting out, but…. We’ll see.

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Sitting across the table at dinner tonight was a professor at a certain Catholic school who let this one out: “Catholicism is the only religion that is capable of producing such delightful news headlines as: ‘Vatican Celebrates Primate Erection, he has an STD and Ejaculates to Mary Hundreds of Times a Day.'”

Primate is another name for the Pope. They consider him “Erected” as in ‘put up into place’ when he is ‘elected’. An STD is a Summa Theologica Doctorate, and an ejaculation is an aspiration, often associated with a prayer to a saint.

Catholics. Gotta love’em. Catholic scholars, even better.