You have to get up early in the morning to beat him at this game.

via Mass is a time of silence and prayer, not idle chitchat, pope says | National Catholic Reporter

By a woman who has a message for the senator who as a comedian used her as a prop on an ISO USO trip to entertain troops. (Sorry)

Senator Franken, you wrote the script. But there’s nothing funny about sexual assault.

You wrote the scene that would include you kissing me and then relentlessly badgered me into ‘rehearsing’ the kiss with you backstage when we were alone.

You knew exactly what you were doing. You forcibly kissed me without my consent, grabbed my breasts while I was sleeping and had someone take a photo of you doing it, knowing I would see it later, and be ashamed.

While debating whether or not to go public, I even thought to myself, so much worse has happened to so many others, maybe my story isn’t worth telling? But my story is worth telling.

Which she does, tellingly.

via Senator Al Franken Kissed and Groped Me Without My Consent, And There’s Nothing Funny About It | KABC-AM

Stuff like this beats anecdotes any day.

via Details in BLS report suggest that earnings differentials by gender can be explained by age, marital status, children, hours worked – AEI

. . . as his fellow American bishops go with another to head their pro-life operation.

Yesterday [Tuesday], something very unexpected happened.

In their Fall General Assembly for 2017, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) held votes on several items, among them, the chairmanship for their pro-life committee.

Faced with a choice between a bishop with a pro-life track record and a reliably progressive cardinal who has made serious compromises on life and doctrinal issues, the bishops — expected by many to follow “tradition” and vote for the man of higher ecclesiastical rank — broke with protocol and chose the pro-life candidate instead.

Is it a sign of new things to come as regards relations with Pope Francis, whose man Cupich has been to the Nth degree?

The liberal National Catholic Reporter called it giving Francis “the middle finger”!