The cause that has no name.

The Catholic bishops of Spain released a clerical sex abuse report at the beginning of the month, based on testimony from nearly a thousand abuse victims and revealing a staggering 728 predators, over 99 percent of whom were male. The report also revealed that nearly 82 percent of victims were male.

This statistic shouldn’t be shocking, as it is consistent with clerical sex abuse reports across the globe, demonstrating that the chief and even the root issue behind clerical sex abuse is homosexuality.

Oh?

In 2004, the U.S. Catholic bishops commissioned a now-infamous report from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, which reported that 81 percent of clerical sex abuse victims were male. In France, a landmark clerical sex abuse report released in 2021 reported that over 330,000 children were abused by priests and other diocesan employees and noting that 80 percent…

Smile, darn you, smile.

TOKYO, June 5 (Reuters) – In one of Keiko Kawano’s recent classes, more than a dozen Tokyo art school students held mirrors to their faces, stretching the sides of their mouths upward with their fingers: they were practising how to smile.

It’s not something most people would think to pay for but Kawano’s services as a smile instructor are seeing a surge in demand in Japan, where mask-wearing was near universal during the pandemic.

It ain’t funny, McGee.

Himawari Yoshida, 20, one of the students taking the class as part of her school’s courses to prepare them for the job market, says she needed to work on her smile.

“I hadn’t used my facial muscles much during COVID so it’s good exercise,” she said.

Kawano’s company Egaoiku – literally “Smile Education” – has seen a more than four-fold jump in demand from last year…

This fellow has Biden?s number:

It takes years of yoga to learn the posture necessary for speaking clearly with all your feet in your mouth. But for some the skill comes naturally, which brings us to Joe Biden.

Those who saw Dick Cheney as an evil genius crouched silent in the shadows of the Oval Office like Nosferatu must enjoy Biden’s high profile: he’s out there daily with the sunny enthusiasm of Ronald McDonald opening another store.

And, quite often, telling everyone to have a Whopper.

It?s James Lilek in NY Post. Can?t remember when I?ve read anything that good in a Chicago newspaper, unless Kass and before him Royko. Any other suggestions? I might have missed someone.

Explaining one of the ?gaffes,? he says:

What Biden meant to say, in his puckish way, that they misunderstood what an economy is, and how it works. Piling up a mountain…

Wirepoints has it:

Strong evidence has led the majority of Americans to see four recent, national scandals. Even the most biased of leading mainstream media have reported at least something on the stories – The New York Times, NPR, Washington Post and CNN, among others – albeit belatedly and distortedly.

But if you relied on the Chicago Tribune or Chicago Sun-Times for news, you’d know nothing about these:

• Nine members of Joe Biden’s family, including some grandchildren, got paid a total of over $9 million by foreign entities, almost certainly as part of a massive influence peddling operation centered on Joe, which he repeatedly and dishonestly claims he knew nothing about . . .

Etc. etc. etc. . . .  In re: Hunter Biden laptop, Durham report, the Censorship Industrial Complex (?)

The Tribune and Sun-Times have suppressed essentially all coverage on any of that, the sole exception I…

11 killed, 46 wounded in Memorial Day weekend violence: It was the deadliest Memorial Day weekend in Chicago in eight years. New mayor, old stuff.

Death toll . . . highest since 2015, when 12 . . .  were killed. The total number shot, however, was still far below the 71 . . .  wounded by gunfire over the 2016 holiday weekend.

The Gresham police district on the South Side recorded the most shooting victims, at least seven, followed by the Harrison District on the West Side, where at least six people were shot.

South Side, West Side, not all around the town. Thus be it ever. A newbie at Daily News, November, 1969, for my introductory week on the middle watch, 4 to midnight, given a story for small write-up, mayhem in ‘hood I knew, told desk man in charge, “This happens all the time, doesn’t it?” meaning…

Cupich had stern advice for fellow bishops.

Cupich said Tuesday that he wants the bishops at their November meeting to go even further and require that all dioceses publicly list priests and bishops credibly accused of abuse. So far only about 50 out of 190 dioceses do so.

Wanted stern action on cover-ups.

Cupich also wants his colleagues to cede some of their zealously guarded autonomy to an independent review board of lay experts who would have the authority to investigate any bishop or cardinal accused of abuse or of covering up for abuse.

His “watershed moment”:

“I think we have to take action,” the cardinal said. “We are at a watershed moment. We have to deal with the issue of accountability, accountability of bishops, that has to happen. … We have to do everything possible to understand that this is a watershed moment, that accountability is key, that…

Sun-Times man to his AFTERNOON EDITION readers couple hours ago:

Maybe you already knew this, but today I learned that the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse was built way back in 1893 — and reconstructed in 1917.

He’s right, of course, about me, anyhow. I did not already know he learned that today, or anything else, for that matter. I also did not know that about the Chicago Harbor Lighthouse.

He’s got my attention, however, and will pay more attention to his learning curve.

All in all, he has an impressive portfolio. Check him out.