Author: Jim Bowman

Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

11 Scoops or 12? Coffee Wars Come to the Office – WSJ

Typically engaging front-pager on WSJ.

The coffee bar in the lobby of Tyson’s Chicago office.

With usually marvelous hard-copy head “Office coffee/ Once a perk/ Now a grind.”

The story is good, about squabbles over “strength, refills, Folgers.” Folgers?

Lots of offices have fancy coffee these days. That just means lots of office workers are grumbling about it. What some managers thought would help keep workers at their desks instead of going out for coffee, has actually led to employees wasting time bickering or waging campaigns for their preferred brews.

Oh my, people.

But the head? How do you beat it?

via 11 Scoops or 12? Coffee Wars Come to the Office – WSJ

Kavanaugh Lynching: Campus Rape-Culture Hysteria Invades America

As news ledes go, this went beautifully.

When Christine Blasey Ford accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of attempted rape, she, her Leftist lawyers and her crackpot supporters demanded that the typical procedures for getting at the truth be turned upside down. This has shocked normal Americans. But it just means that Campus Rape-Culture Hysteria has escaped the asylum and is now invading America.

Congrats to my friend Nicholas Stix.

via VDARE.com

Pullman: The history, what to do, architecture and more

This in Chicago’s Newspaper pains me even more than its all-in editorial ringing the oft-sounded alarm about the end of the world coming because of climate change.

Today’s stop: Pullman.  Located 12 miles south of downtown, Pullman may be the most unique neighborhood in the city.

Why? Because something, even a neighborhood, is either unique (one of a kind) or not. There are not degrees of uniqueness.

Common dreadful error, but being common is no excuse. At least the Sun-Times is not unique in this error.

via Chicago Sun-Times

LGBT Conference Canceled in Fresno Diocesan Congress

Staffers objected, bishop canceled.

Catholics who were upset about the workshop being given to CCD, RCIA and confirmation instructors contacted Church Militant asking for help investigating and exposing the serious problems with this workshop. Investigations revealed the following:

John Prandini, the one providing the workshop in question, “established the first diocesan LGBTQ Catholic Ministry in 2015 at St. Paul Catholic Newman Center.” Prandini was to represent the St. Paul Center at the workshop.
Prandini represented the St. Paul Catholic Newman Center in the Fresno Rainbow Pride Parade in 2017 and again in 2018.
The St. Paul Catholic Newman Center claims that its LGBT ministry has the full support of Bp. Armando Ochoa. The center states that its vision for the LGBT ministry is to make openly homosexual identities acceptable and welcome in Catholic settings.
The former pastor of the St. Paul Catholic Newman Center was Fr. Geoff Farrow, who revealed his own homosexuality in 2008 and is now acting as a same-sex “marriage” activist, performing sodomitical “marriages.”

Love the sinner, hate the sin? I think I’ve got that right.

via LGBT Conference Canceled in Fresno Diocesan Congress

Defense Attorney Daniel Herbert Says Van Dyke Was ‘Sacrificial Lamb’

Verdict will change law enforcement?

“We don’t believe that the evidence supported the conviction. But at the end of the day, with the Cook County jury and with the pressure that we had with this case we started this case 50 yards behind the starting line.”

Herbert also suggested that the verdict marked “a sad day for law enforcement” and would alter the way police officers approach their job.

“We’ve all heard about the Ferguson effect,” said Herbert. “If police officers think that they can never fire against someone that is acting the way Laquan McDonald did 12 feet away from him I think that what we are going to have is that police officers are going to become security guards. There will not be a police officer getting out of a car to confront somebody. Maybe that’s what everyone wants. I don’t know. We’ll have to see how it plays out.”

Unfortunately.

via WTTW

Go fund Chicago pastor whose people burned the gay flag? Nope.

The long arm of gay activism reaches into a very popular website.

In which Fr. Paul Kalchik came up a winner, with $16,000 raised, or was raised but now isn’t.

Go there, and you don’t find Fr. Kalchik.

And the money raised so far goes back to the donors, according to the Go Fund sponsor, or will be going there.

On Sept. 6, GoFundMe contacted Church Militant claiming that our “GoFundMe account has been removed due to a violation of our Terms & Conditions.” It went on to say it would refund all donations within 3–7 business days. Access to the site was immediately removed.

Although most donations have been refunded, multiple donors have complained they have not received their refund. Church Militant has contacted GoFundMe requesting an explanation why all donations have not been returned, but has received no response as of press time.

Not to worry, however. The Church Militant set up another appeal, at Funding Morality, where donations reached lotsa bucks from lotsa contributors:

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$72,358.00

Donated