The 1440.com morning news digest cites a Rolling Stone article reporting the history of allegations concerning the rocker Marilyn Manson. The article is here: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/marilyn-manson-abuse-allegations-1256888/ The report is of a history indeed. That is why my sort has some problem with high-flyers who continually fall into such messes. If itContinue Reading
THE PERSISTENCE OF UTTER DISREGARD AP reports that lower echelon enlisted military are not able to feed their families? The Feeding America ministry claims that as many as 160,000 families of enlisted military have trouble with the most basic need of all, food: https://apnews.com/article/hunger-in-america-military-food-insecurity-142728bcb5479fd2de73750e11dbd458 The article cites a wife withContinue Reading
Really!! This morning’s Gospel reading appointed for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost is a familiar one from St. Mark: 13:1 As he came out of the temple, one of his disciples said to him, “Look, Teacher, what large stones and what large buildings!” 13:2 Then Jesus asked him, “Do youContinue Reading
SEX FOR VAX?? SEX FOR VAX?? Greg Gutfeld of Fox News Channel informs us that an Austrian brothel is offering 30 minutes of free sex with one of its sex workers to get people to take the COVID vaccine. My own personal understanding is that sort of partying is prohibitiveContinue Reading
This morning’s must-read comes to us via Rachel Bovard of the Federalist and the Conservative Partnership Institute, here: https://thefederalist.com/2021/11/08/how-31-republicans-just-betrayed-the-country-to-reward-illegal-immigration-worsen-inflation-and-pay-off-democrats-donors/ Ms. Bovard draws up a readably concise summary of the provisions contained in the “bipartisan infrastructure bill”. But she goes beyond that to remind us of the inconceivable betrayals along theContinue Reading
Ohhhh, Myyyyy, Gooodddd… That glimpse of the look on the face of the Bishop of Rome said it all. “Who is this individual running the most powerful country in the world babbling like a dolt before me?” “Buy you a drink, Your Holiness??” “I’m 65, you’re 60??” “You’re Irish?” A presidentContinue Reading
This morning’s Gospel Text from St. Mark Chapter 10 tells the story of blind Bartimaeus’ encounter with Jesus: 46 And they came to Jericho; and as he was leaving Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, the son of Timaeus, was sitting by the roadside.Continue Reading
CULLORS IS AN ARTIST? I read where Patrisse Cullors, formerly of Black Lives Matter, has accepted a position with the Los Angeles County Art Commission. It is simply irritating to observe discredited people being sought after by everyone in pursuit of a little notoriety, or what?? It reminds of anContinue Reading
I would like to entitle today’s post as the “Can’t Make This Up Department”. But it takes up the entire post and has everything to do with language attributed to Jesus of Nazareth. Over the past few days I installed a Firefox browser. Its security suggestions included asking if IContinue Reading
Back again, and posting again now that some dust has settled, hopefully… As owner of www.cultureholywar.com, I would like to introduce to everyone two new author participants in our endeavors. “Democritus” is a Professor of Mathematics at a nearby university. He will post under that particular name after the ancientContinue Reading
Here is a link. You, the intelligent and concerned reader, might peruse this piece written by Shawn Fleetwood of thefederalist.com for today to comprehend why a professor in my acquaintance sometimes fears for his job: https://thefederalist.com/2021/09/22/university-threatens-action-against-students-for-pronoun-misuse Fleetwood writes that the Office of Equity and Inclusion [‘equity’?] at Point Park UniversityContinue Reading
Speaking at a Chatham House event in London, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said, “In America, capitalism is our system, it is our economic system, but it has not served our economy as well as it should…” I wonder if she delivered the same message to Amazon’s Bezos et. al. aboutContinue Reading
GENERAL MILLEY, THANK YOU FOR POSTPONING MY YOM KIPPUR POST UNTIL NEXT YEAR! A general officer of the U. S. military has apparently contacted an enemy over a non-existent plot to launch a nuclear strike, which he, the General named Milley, will thwart for them if the plot ever mightContinue Reading
The ministry named below has been a comprehensive Pro-Life Christian presence in Northwest Indiana. If you are in the area and would like to walk the two miles with us at several different locations, or would simply like to donate toward the event and its purpose, please keep reading: WOMEN’SContinue Reading
Facing up to another day of infamy, and another day to attempt writing about it… Writers make an effort, at least, to separate our own emotions so as to think clearly about a given subject before expressing conclusions and indulging in a little prophesying or vitriol. That has become moreContinue Reading