Hell freezes over: The devil’s in the details, but it looks like Obama’s willing to let the automakers go bankrupt. I never thought he’d let that happen to his UAW constituency: The Obama’s administration’s leading plan to fix General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC would use bankruptcy filings to purge the ailing companies of their [...]
Good revolutionaries get slaughtered. That might be one way of characterizing the lesson of Barabbas. On that scary day 2,000 years ago, when Hell unleashed its fury on the God Man, that wicked man was freed to go. We don’t know what happened to him, but on that day, the bad revolutionary thrived.
“Our friends, relatives, colleagues and acquaintances have to find us loyal, sincere, cheerful, optimistic, good at our job, resilient, pleasant, courageous . . . At the same time, in a simple and natural way, we must make known our faith in Christ.”
Rolling Stone published a very good feature piece in its April 2 issue: The Big Takeover. It’s lengthy but worth reading for anyone who doesn’t understand what happened these past couple of years and the problem we’re in now. The gist: AIG and other behemoths got themselves into a huge pinch by dealing in collateral-debt [...]
An old drinking friend comes to town tonight: Uncle Joe (who’s movin’ kinda slow–joke). He re-located from Detroit to Florida about six years ago. Born in 1946, he’s the first of the baby-boomers, but more conservative than the average Depression baby.
We almost lost him about ten years ago to a massive heart attack. He [...]
I hesitatingly renewed my subscription to New York Magazine last month. I really like the magazine, but it leans left and at times is too risque to have around my children. My first post-lapse issue came yesterday. One of its first features: A profile of the New York Times’ new columnist, Ross Douthat (entertaining pdf [...]
Whew, things have exploded around the office. After the October 2008 Stock Crash, things really slowed down at the office. I was always busy (thankfully), but it was a leisurely-paced busy. Enjoyable busy, if not as lucrative. But now, it feels like pre-2008 Crash again. It’s a good feeling, though I can’t say I welcome [...]
The anarchist welcomes the Church teaching of subsidiarity, which says the smallest units of society ought to handle whatever they can, with the larger units getting involved only when the smaller units can’t handle something.
“Right on,” says the anarchist. And the smallest unit of society is the family. And even though the family [...]
Today, “the Church wishes to remind us that joy is perfectly compatible with mortification and pain. It is sadness and not penance which is opposed to happiness.”
Francis Fernandez, commenting on one of the most bizarre teachings of Christianity in the eyes of modernity’s ethos.
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