Sickening display. I speak as grandson, son, and father of onetime union members and a onetime member myself. Walter Reuther himself would wonder what the hell.

Biotech experimentation gone wild:

Once again, major decisions about the future of society are being made by secular elites who speak and act as if God did not exist, but who usurp His divine power and wield it over the rest of us.

We’re talking “humanzees” and the like, folks. Yuck and double yuck.

Read all about The Mayor and the Jesuit and jobs for students at Christ The King Jesuit on the West Side.

This Texas A&M player whom Chi newspaper-readers never heard of won Heisman over Notre Dame’s Te’o. Who’d a-thunk it?

His popularity hit a fever pitch against Alabama when he used his feet, instincts and A&M’s up-tempo offense to take down the nation’s No. 1 team. Against the nation’s top defense, he completed 24-of-31 passes for 253 yards and two touchdowns and rushed for 92 yards.

From that game on, the Heisman was Manziel’s to lose.

Really? We wuz robbed, say Trib and Sun-Times readers, who find nothing but Notre Dame, day in and day out. Provincialism, yes.

Count me among supporters of prayer and fasting, but I would like to hear more preaching on the religious liberty issue, aka HHS mandate and its penal-law implications.

Quip of the week, no question:

A pro-abortion zealot once castigated his pro-life opponents, saying, “Don’t you people get it? You’ve lost. It’s over. The fat lady has sung.” To which one of them replied, “It is not over when the fat lady sings. It is over when the angel blows his trumpet.” – Christopher Beiting

This fellow can talk to me any time.

Such a good site here, from Francella Belton. Full of writer’s stuff and beautifully laid out.

Google developers warns me against a site, a well-regarded Catholic conservative page dealing with religious and societal values.

The supposed problems are phishing and malware. Interesting, not a revolting development.

G. asks to be informed if their algorhythms are mistaken. I’d say they are in this case. Honestly mistaken, I trust.

Can’t always trust an algorhythm?

A free-market man responds to the New Yorker writer who said laissez-faire starved the Irish:

After defeating James II in 1690, victorious protestants subjected Catholics – Ireland’s majority population – to cruel restrictions on land ownership and leasing. These policies led most of Ireland’s people to farm plots that were inefficiently small and on which the Irish had no incentives to make long-term improvements.

As a result, agricultural productivity in Ireland stagnated, and the high-yield, highly nutritious, labor-intensive potato became the dominant crop.

In combination with other discriminatory measures that obstructed Catholics from participating in modern commerce – measures that kept far too large a portion of Ireland’s population practicing subsistence agriculture well into the 19th century – this over-dependence on the potato spelled doom when in 1845 that crop became infected with the fungus Phytophthora infestans.

There’s more more more here from the excellent Donald J. Boudreaux at George Mason U.

If she bears twins, you know it’s important who’s born first, of course. I mean Kate Middleton, of course. But you knew this, of course.