February 2015
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I saw this headline on Google News yesterday: Huge New Holes In Siberia Have Scientists Calling For Urgent Investigation Of The Mysterious Craters and immediately thought "Someone will blame it on global warming/climate change." I clicked on it and read the story, at the Huffington Post. Sure enough: The leading theory is that the holes…
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You have to make allowances for movies made in the 1950s and earlier, I know. Well, you have to make allowances for movies in general, but it was sometime in the 1960s that movies (American ones, at least) made a noticeable turn toward a greater realism, or at least believability (not necessarily the same things).…
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There are such things, and they are frightening. Someone mentioned here a while back the case of Justine Sacco, who said something stupid on Twitter, and was ruined for it. You can read the whole story in this New York Times piece, which also includes stories of other people who made the wrong sort of…
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Why even bother? Why bother thinking about it at all, since it seems pretty clear that it isn't going to be stopped. A large segment of the country, including those all-powerful federal judges, have accepted the dogma that defining marriage as a union of two people of opposite sexes is morally and intellectually identical to…
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Dear brothers and sisters, how greatly I desire that all those places where the Church is present, especially our parishes and our communities, may become islands of mercy in the midst of the sea of indifference! –Pope Francis
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For, as the course goes on, the movement turns centrifugal; we rejoice in our abandon and are never so full of the sense of accomplishment as when we have struck some bulwark of our culture a deadly blow. –Richard Weaver It's been obvious for some time that traditionalists, or realists, or whatever you want to…
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