Northwestern AD Derrick Gragg, under scrutiny for hazing scandal, offers questionable advice about women — ‘man’s greatest distraction’ — in book

Wuxtry.

Questionable, eh? Like this, from Chi Trib?

In his book, Gragg . . . calls women “man’s greatest distraction,” criticizes the portrayal of women in music videos as “booty-shaking sex-kittens,” and provides his take on serious crimes like rape and sexual assault.

Booty-shaking sex kittens is inaccurate? He made it up, there’s no such phenomenon? Or: You dasn’t mention such things in civilized society?

Gragg said in an email to the Tribune that he wrote the book as a reflection of his own experiences as a young Black man “fulfilling my dream” of playing Division I football.

It’s a “black thang,” as a  Roosevelt Road hanger-on in the ’60s said proudly of various styles and behaviors. The book’s title, “40 Days of Direction: Life Lessons from the…

Moments of silence rare or absent, depending on priest’s preferences, which can vary day to day.

Head trip for all: instruct, instruct, instruct. Less experience than lesson.

All to meet “pastoral” needs, which can also vary day to day.

Closes off possibilities of interior life, mimicking the world as it is.

Who needs it?

Plus distractions.

Reader lady, who reciting the closing line says alarmingly, repeatedly, “Let us pray TO the Lord,” as if to fend off the heresy that says we can pray only about the Lord, because He can’t or won’t listen to us and/or we dare not make bold to do so.

Part of the great preposition war raging in today’s church.

Not just prepositions. Priest intones “ALL the saints,” lest we be choosy in the matter. And not just on All Saints Day.

Can (maybe) solve this problem with meditation on and prayers to the saint(s)…

Regrets are a pain in the behind. And lots of other places. They can consume you if you don’t watch out.

Solution lies somewhere between accepting God and accepting God very much.

Don’t worry about overdoing it. That won’t happen. In a million years it won’t, which is short for never.

Six-pack Joe to the barricades:

“I’m not going to stop fighting to deliver borrowers what they need,” the president said at the White House on Friday hours after the Supreme Court overturned his plan to forgive up to $20,000 in student loan debt for Americans making under $125,000 a year.

He’s a man, who’s a man? Our pal Joe.