Seattle U. staged one big support group for sexual deviationists:

The conference’s keynote speaker was Kathy Talvacchia, associate dean of academic and student affairs at New York University Graduate School of Arts and Science and co-author of the book Queer Christianities. The Spectator noted that Talvacchia “has narrated her experience coming out as a lesbian woman and how the spiritual exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola were a really important part in balancing her identity of being Catholic and queer.”
“Being at a Jesuit university, that [experience] toes the line of official church teaching and healthy inquiry and respect for the human person and individual,” said Seattle University’s campus minister for faith formation, Rachel Doll O’Mahoney, according to the Spectator.

Toes the line? Try “straddles.” Rachel Doll might consult a dictionary.

In midst of explaining why Gregorian chant is the truly spiritual worship music, this:

In contrast, the style of Praise & Worship songs is obviously contemporary, American, and secular. If missionaries were to impose these songs on some indigenous tribe elsewhere in the world, it would be comparable to asking them to dress, eat, and talk like Americans. It is, in that sense, comparable to jeans, Coca-Cola, and iPhones.

Which is fine with mainstream liturgists, but indefensible, this author argues.

Lots of conservatives doing this.

A typical blue-state solution to “violence”: make-work jobs to keep youth busy enough to stop shooting each other. Thank you, county commissioner Boykin.

Only the rich can afford vacations they take. They rich people!

Cf. (famous if spurious exchange, “Rich not like us,” said Fitzgerald. “Yes, they have more money,” said Hemingway.)

Blue city blues:

Interim Police Supt. Eddie Johnson said if there’s wrongdoing, “I will deal with it accordingly.”

Accordingly? What does that mean? He won’t just deal with it? What’s going on here?

Sheesh.

Source: New Top Cop’s Fiancee Under Investigation For Alleged Police Exam Cheating

. . . did not go well.

In his unsuccessful 2014 bid for re-election, then-Gov. Pat Quinn vowed that sweeping changes had cleaned up an unwieldy anti-violence program, but new findings show that widespread problems persisted for two years longer than previously known.

The findings emerged in a “confidential draft” the Tribune obtained of a new, highly critical audit — nearing release — that focuses on a high-profile issue in the last gubernatorial election.

According to the draft, the state auditor general’s office found that bread-and-butter grant protocol was abandoned, leading to sketchy oversight riddled with missing documentation, questionable spending, unclear results and unspent money yet to be returned to state coffers. In one case, auditors discovered, a private agency filed for bankruptcy less than four months after getting more than $583,000 in state money.

Which pretty well sums up political life in a Blue State.

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Won by governor and sec. of state of Texas, Republican conservatives both, plus consider this:

What strikes us about the case, though, is the narrowness of the Supreme Court’s ruling — and, indeed, the prospect that the court may have opened a vast national struggle in respect of the drawing of election districts.

What it ruled is that Texas was within its rights to apportion its election districts according to the total population of each district. What it didn’t do is require that the Lone Star State do so, which struck an uncharacteristic note of humility for the Nine.

You may do this vs. you must. Big difference.

He’s countercultural when you get down to it.

Young Trump followers say such backlash against minority opinion, in a realm where liberal culture dominates, is part of what draws them to the cause.
“Today, there is a movement to silence differing views,” Lopez says. He argues that the increasingly common practice of students turning to “safe spaces” is really about sheltering students from ideas with which they disagree.
“That’s not what America is about,” he says. “Mr. Trump, he’s single-handedly bringing back freedom of speech. He’s enabled students to voice whatever we believe in a thoughtful way.”

I’m with ’em. If knowing him by his enemies alone. The jerks opposing him look so bad. You know what else? He’s quirky.

. . . at his conference on nuclear issues, where he also stamped his trademark understanding of Islamic terrorism on a censored video :

One notable incident at the conference was the apparent censuring [sic] of a video released on YouTube and the White House website in which French President Hollande identified “Islamic terrorism” specifically as the root of the violence in the Middle East.

That video was scrubbed and replaced with another in which the French leader’s words are silences [sic]. So far, Obama has not identified “Islamic terrorism” as the source of many ills and violence in the war torn region.

Well, he ridiculously refuses to use the expression. But he knows what’s what, doesn’t he?