If you are Catholic, and like me, you ended yesterday, shall we say, gastronomically unsatisfied. Ash Wednesday, the start of Lent, is a day both of abstinence and fasting. Abstinence means refraining from something, and Lenten Abstinence is the “no meat Fridays” rule that Catholics routinely remember to forget to remember. But fasting? That brings… Read More Happy Meat Thursday!
So Matt Damon seems to have just found out that not everyone in the world has access to a flush toilet. His response, well then he won’t use one either, then. Apparently until johns are provided for the 2.5 billion people who lack them. “Does anybody have any idea what invention has saved more lives than… Read More In Other News, Matt Damon Wants Us to Know About his Bowel Movements, and Justin Bieber is Kind of a Punk.
True Story. We are the party that adheres to the Constitution. We will not let the liberals tread on the Second Amendment! We will fight to defend the entire Bill of Rights from the right to trial by jury to the right to be free from unlawful searches. We will stand up against excessive government… Read More When Rand Paul Feels Sad, He Stops Being Sad and is Awesome Instead.
Apparently The New Republic that insists that everyone else should “diversify” would like to be free to make up its own mind about putting any of those filthy minorities on staff. Apparently diversity-efforts are things Other People must do — never people who Dylan Byers works for, or may work for at some point down… Read More Ace Excorciates The White Republic
Just as any king can abdicate, Popes can vacate the Papal office. And just as with kings, such abdications are rare. How rare? The last time the leader of the Roman Catholic Church resigned his office was almost exactly 600 years ago in 1415, and that was to end the Western Schism and reunify the… Read More Yes, Popes Can Resign
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Having been charged with the sole care of Darling Daughter whilst Wifey is compounding tech week and Opening Night into one day for a one-minute play festival, I resolved to get us both out into the sunshine. Daughter was game, despite describing the environs as “co” (cold) when we finally ventured out. We lasted but… Read More How the Weather Induced Me to Learn About the Bauhaus Movement
Politics is the ultimate entertainment. Over at The Atlantic, a sober estimation of why TV is outperforming movies as quality entertainment: Networks love the cable bundle for the same reason that viewers hate it: It’s a relentless (i.e. dependable) transfer of money from households to networks, regardless of what television or how much television we… Read More Why Netflix is Still the King…
So Sayeth Breibart. What Karl Rove and company did last week in the New York Times, claiming that their new “Conservative Victory Project” would cure the ills of a disappointing campaign cycle, is laughable. The so-called “Conservative Victory Project” is nothing more than an attempt by establishment Republicans to cull the conservative movement. Why does Rove think he has… Read More The Civil War Has Begun
This is the Kind of thing you expect to read about in Dickensian portraits of 19th-century capitalism. Yangji village in the southeastern city of Guangzhou has reportedly existed for some 900 years. As China’s economy exploded and the port city’s population ballooned to more than 12 million, real estate developers moved in and Yangji’s 4,000 residents found… Read More Moats dug round Chinese villagers’ houses to drive them out
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