Posted in Uncategorized on March 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I confess to letting my kid’s watch Spongebob Squarepants. The TV was on when the Kid’s Choice Awards were taking place and this little cringeworthy moment came from these cringeworthy actors (no, it’s not my youtube vid):
“Do you like this planet that we live on?”
I always wondered how one would [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2009 | 1 Comment »
At the Curt Jester.
The usual stale platitudes:
I think we should rejoice that someone as narrow minded and disrepectful as this Bishop is staying home. There are people all over the World who do not agree with our Catholic views. Good manners alone would require that we be civil, respectful human beings to those people and/or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Meaning my own. I was hoping for some strong discipline from the bishop for Notre Dame, but I see the wisdom of the boycott. For the local ordinary to not show up at the graduation of the major university in his diocese is a pretty big deal. It’s about as conspicuous an absence as one [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here: http://www.diocesefwsb.org/COMMUNICATIONS/statements.htm
On Friday, March 21, Father John Jenkins, CSC, phoned to inform me that President Obama had accepted his invitation to speak to the graduating class at Notre Dame and receive an honorary degree. We spoke shortly before the announcement was made public at the White House press briefing. It was the first time that [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
James Bowman comments on an review about Grand Theft IV: Chinatown Wars and ponders whether it’s all the MPAA’s fault:
But if certain kinds of words and images are inherently corrupting, why should we suppose that they are only corrupting to children? It’s as if the act of formerly illicit knowing involved in watching people copulate, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
We’ve all encountered one whom even “though his thrusts are decisively repulsed, his arguments crushed in every detail and his defenses demolished beyond repair he will remount the same attack again and again with only the slightest variation in tactics.”
So when Fr. Jenkins says,
These “crucial differences” in positions on the protection of life are not [...]
Posted in Abortion on March 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
From Red Cardigan comes a story of a New York judge who ordered the lowering of the age to acquire Plan B over-the-counter to 17 and advised removing all restrictions. Red sez:
Parents are responsible for their minor children. If your 17-year-old is truant from school, in states that require compulsory education through the age of [...]
Posted in Tick-tock on March 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What I mean by that is that these kicks to the Church’s groin will continue until bishops step up and use discipline with teeth. It risks schism, but years of courting the kicks like Van Driessen may have forced the issue.
Mencius Moldbug’s recent entry describes “camouflaged predation” when he asks why in history do conservative/reactionary [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 20, 2009 | 4 Comments »
EegahInc, I’ll see your Mission: Magic, and raise you a Free to Be… You and Me.
Everyone is aware the tumult of the 60’s. Fewer really know much about what Paul Johnson dubbed the collectivist 70’s. Fewer still even realize that all this junk landed on generation of children growing up at the time. I was [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Uncle Di:
The Association of Compassionate Christian Caregivers today severely criticized traditional Catholic teaching on marital “love” and called upon the churches to encourage wife-beating Africans to take the “prudent, practical steps” to reduce the risk of HIV infection when assailing their spouses.
“The science is not in doubt” says Fizzy Osbourne, spokesman for the International Planned [...]
