Can I find figure skating for every occasion? I CAN TRY. Natalia Annenko and Genrikh Sretenski: Oksana Baiul: Peggy Fleming, especially appropriate for this feast: Rudy Galindo, likewise: Carolina Kostner: Anjelika Krylova and Oleg Ovsiannikov: Elena and Oleg Protopopov: Johnny Weir: Now go to church! Read more
The task of rearing a child must have taught her a lot. Taught her that the conformity we often glibly equate with mediocrity isn’t something free spirits “transcend” as much as something they’re not quite up to. That convention calls for broader shoulders–and, for all I know, more imagination–than revolt. –this is in the voice of the comic hero, so he’s kind of a fatuous ass, but the best trick is to put wisdom in the mouths of asses. Read more
7 pm, Malcolm X Park, people will be wearing red armbands apparently. Hope to see many of you there. Here’s the Facebook page with info for DC. Here’s a roundup of events nationwide. Some links btw: Surrender as protest. “[N]o one can–or should have to be–‘respectable‘ all of the time.” See also Timothy P. Carney, “None of us scrupulously obeys the law. Technically speaking, we’re all criminals.” (If you’re the wrong color or the wrong class, that “technically” gets a... Read more
an incomplete list of people St Maximilian Kolbe is the patron of. Whoa. His feast day is today. That list via David Freddoso. Read more
Unfortunately, the Devil shelters himself behind us, and conceals himself, whilst we are blind, and, thinking we are doing everything of ourselves, begin to stand up for the Devil’s works as if they were our own, as if for something just, although every idea of there being any justice in our passion is entirely false, impious, and hurtful. Via TKB about something specific, but I thought of it because of this posts about being carried by Christ. If we try... Read more
actually way worse than that headline makes it sound! The girl sat on the bunk in her cell in one of San Diego County’s female juvenile-detention units as staff members explained that she was being placed on suicide watch. They told her she had to strip naked in front of them—including in front of a male staff member. She refused, twice. So, they sprayed her in the face with pepper spray, then shut the door to her cell. Two minutes... Read more
So when I wrote my review of Boyhood I knew it had gotten good press, but I didn’t realize that I would be one of only a handful of critics who found the movie lacking. Apparently it sits around 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Now that I’ve had some time to sit with the movie in my memory, here are some further thoughts: some extra praise and some extra criticism, but mostly a reflection on perseverance. The other critics who disliked... Read more
The New Yorker: On a cold November afternoon, Harriet Cleveland, a forty-nine-year-old mother of three, waved me over from the steps of her pink cottage in Montgomery, Alabama. She was off to her part-time job as a custodian at a local day-care center, looking practical but confectionary: pink lipstick, a pastel yellow-and-pink tunic, and dangly pink earrings. We’d need to start walking soon, she explained. The job, which paid seven dollars and twenty-five cents an hour, was the only one... Read more
at Substance.com: …Schwarz goes on to describe how deputy/pharmacist Logan sometimes actually jumps over the counter and arrests people “on the spot” if they come to one of his stores with a forged or otherwise illegitimate prescription. That’s a real health-care pro in action! And throughout, Schwarz tells the story of one of Logan’s arrests, describing a sobbing mother—the one he’d holstered his guns and put on his bulletproof vest to go out and arrest—now in jail. She was charged... Read more
doin’ my thing: Gay Christians who are celibate for religious reasons are having a small coming-out party of sorts. We’ve seen recent articles exploring my exotic new sub-sub-sub-subculture in Slate, Religion News Service, and even The Advocate. I’m thrilled to see these pieces and I deeply appreciate the respect the authors showed despite, in some cases, intense and personal theological differences. But there’s always going to be some dissonance when a community is represented by outsiders. The aspects of our... Read more
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