Or shalt thou? Fr. Longenecker has a good piece on this oft overused and abused teaching. It’s always entertaining to listen to people judging others for judging others. That alone suggests there’s more to the rule than ‘you can never say anything about anything.’ Go here to read. Read more
Through the years, I learned this type of rhetoric was par for the course. Read more
Without warning, we were getting less for our money. Read more
So Johnny Depp, who more or less has been Jack Sparrow since The Black Pearl, made a not too thinly veiled suggestion about a good old assassination the way John Booth used to bake them. His classic denial of the obvious, that was so crucial for us youngsters back in the day when it came to allusions to sex and drugs in pop culture products, doesn’t cut it. You can’t fool someone who doesn’t know a world without rock and roll, and... Read more
In a nutshell. Well said Mr. Goldberg. Read more
Frank Bruni, of the NYT, has finally thrown in the towel. To all the spoiled college students who think the Pol Pot approach to free speech is the way to go, Mr. Bruni says ‘Nyet!’ There has been some reluctance to jump in and put the kibosh on students who thought riots, physical assault and property destruction were the appropriate way to silence any speech that didn’t conform to their values. Why, I don’t know. But I think the Evergreen College fiasco... Read more
The single best news this week came from the Supreme Court. In an age where a disturbing number of Americans believe that certain rights and freedoms stop, not because they might in some way hurt society, but because they might offend me, the Court unanimously said ‘Nein!’ National Review has the story here. Whew. That so many seem to be applying the modern golden rule of ‘do unto others as long as you don’t do unto me’ to things like the... Read more
I’ve seen these two stories connected over the last day or so. In one story, a school teacher and adviser of the yearbook committee did a fine Stalin impersonation by erasing any mention of Donald Trump from yearbook pictures. Statements on shirts or hats that were pro-Trump were inexplicably gone in the final product. In the other story, a woman stormed the stage in New York to protest the production of Julius Caesar that replaces the great Roman leader with the... Read more
Released. There was quite a brouhaha when this came out. First that there was a request for clarification at all, then because a letter was sent to Pope Francis requesting an audience. Truth be told, I typically stay out of the inside baseball stuff of Church polity. Every tradition has its Robert’s Rules, and I am not an expert to praise or condemn what the Cardinals did, or how they did it. I did notice, however, that Pope Francis’s most fervent... Read more
Otto Warmbier, the student who was seized by the North Koreans a year and a half ago, has died. It didn’t look good when he came back in a coma. Most feared the worst. Prayers for him, his family and loved ones. God grant them strength and peace going forward. A worst case nightmare for any family, and for him. Eternal rest grant unto him, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon him. Read more
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