What’s he up to?

I do not know but am not panicking. For one thing, he has not got rich by being a patsy. I mean really rich.

Am staying tuned, as always.

Later, alligator. (When music was music and dancing was dancing.)

Headline story via Daily Mail Online

What’s going on at this Jesuit-run institution?

via Instapundit » 

More on Tebow.

via Instapundit

Heading for the bigs, Christian faith and all.

Defining religion down.

The group has taken issue with section 88 of the new document, which states: “Thus to have kept her body in perfect continence or to have practiced the virtue of chastity in an exemplary way, while of great importance with regard to the discernment, are not essential prerequisites in the absence of which admittance to consecration is not possible.”

The USACV said it was “shocking to hear from Mother Church that physical virginity may no longer be considered an essential prerequisite for consecration to a life of virginity.”

“The entire tradition of the Church has firmly upheld that a woman must have received the gift of virginity – that is, both material and formal (physical and spiritual) – in order to receive the consecration of virgins,” the association added.

Part of an ongoing project in the age of Francis whereby “discernment” is the thing, get it?

In this case, when is a virgin not a virgin? When “discernment” makes it so. Put another way, when Francis’ reformed curia says so.

Age of Aquarius has come and gone. A new one is here, in which It Don’t Mean A Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing discernment.

more more here via CatholicHerald.co.uk

Who’d a thunk it?

The Times review doesn’t acknowledge it, but people were and are stressed, even “acutely” stressed, under Communism and socialism, too.

Maybe the issue isn’t “neoliberal ideology” – which goes undefined in the review and can mean a lot of different things — or “capitalism,” but human nature.

Trouble is, stress is always with us.

via The Future of Capitalism

Geez, she some kind of outlaw or something?

She “ignored his advice by opting for a soft Brexit strategy,” says Sun.

Another speak softly-carry-no stick-performer taken to school.

Special interest here for this blogger. We had such a woman join us for dinner some weeks back, I mean one who if she returned to her native Iran, would face the same situation. Bad stuff.

via Geller Report . . . 

. . . which Google Adsense has banned, the owner says, apparently because of reporting such as this. Also bad.

The last straw? Not by a long shot.

Just days after announcing it would drop plastic straws to save the oceans, Starbucks today introduced the option to have your hot beverage dispensed without a cup.

The new Earth-friendly ‘Direct Pour’ service is expected to increase sales by winning over people who have avoided Starbucks as a way to protect the planet from human refuse.

Little things mean a lot.

via ScrappleFace