Justice no longer delayed, GW’s small-mindedness negated, Cheney reaffirmed.

The electorate be damned.

Can you hear the Vatican egging Marquette on?

The left is good at this sort of thing.

It’s BAD FOR YOU.

It’s time to admit that this noble experiment has failed. The promise of joyful and meaningful connection has given way instead to a bizarre amalgam of baby pictures, vacation photos, political diatribes, cat videos, memes, wry observations, banal holiday greetings, and probably a lot of other stuff I’m forgetting because it’s so forgettable.

Much of social media has proved to be a divisive force, not a unifying one. It’s astonishingly addictive, but we all know it’s unhealthy. A review of academic research in Harvard Business Review last year was headlined: “The more you use Facebook, the worse you feel.”

Nacissistic to boot, he says.

In a series of excerpts from Pope Francis exhortation on holiness is nothing about Pelagianism (belief in do-it-yourself salvation) or Gnosticism (clinging to parts of revelation said to be known to only a few).

In that respect, the series, an Opus Dei product, is a blessing, lest we miss the good parts, distracted by Francis’ untoward and unfair characterizations of traditionalist and other Catholics who disagree with him.

I especially like this which the series includes:

14. To be holy does not require being a bishop, a priest or a religious. We are frequently tempted to think that holiness is only for those who can withdraw from ordinary affairs to spend much time in prayer. That is not the case. We are all called to be holy by living our lives with love and by bearing witness in everything we do, wherever we find ourselves.

Actually, however, I do think the faithful are beyond thinking holiness is exclusive to contemplative religious or others of religious vocation. In fact, in churches I have been attending in the last 65 years, I can’t recall any preacher ever talking that way.

What or whom Francis has in mind escapes me, especially in an age of clerical and other church scandals of all kinds, including in the Vatican, where frankly he seems to have given up the reform agenda with which he began his tenure.

Meanwhile, we can profit from his exhortation keeping in mind the old nostrum, God writes straight with crooked lines. Applying it to ourselves while we’re at it.

via Apostolic Exhortation “Gaudete et exsultate” – Opus Dei

Above all, be reasonable:

“If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you,
it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.”

Give me that old Lama wisdom.

via Dalai Lama Quote – Liberty Quotes Blog

Refreshing.

White privilege has become the target of many initiatives in higher education. The goal, advocates say, is to fight racism and promote justice. Yet the practice often doesn’t seem constructive.

In my college career, I’ve spoken to many peers and professors who insist adamantly that any conversation about race in America should begin and end with the accusation of white privilege.

The aim seems to be to establish guilt, not build understanding.

Yes. And by the way, might we argue that affirmative action is a vehicle of black privilege?

via The Cudgel of ‘White Privilege’ – WSJ

The pope’s detractor gets a comeuppance.

British knight suspended by Order of Malta for writing highly critical book about Pope Francis

Trouble is, the book, Dictator Pope, is quite carefully written, drawing heavily on published accounts of undisputed happenings. Not so easily fobbed off as a mere hit job. Oh my. Not at all.

Andrew Klavan On The Culture:

This column has, on occasion, been disparaging toward American journalism, but only because it is now populated by the biggest bunch of knuckleheads ever to be assembled outside of Knucklehead City on the planet Knucklehead.

Remember the sitcom news anchor Ted Baxter with the big voice and the slick haircut and minuscule IQ?

Well, if you added the emotional stability of a three-year-old having a temper tantrum, you would have your typical American journalist and commentator, not just on cable but at the networks and newspapers too.

I could lasso a gorilla, give him a lobotomy, and teach him to do the job better than these clowns in fifteen minutes.

But perhaps I overstate my case. Or … do I?

Let’s take a look at three stories and how they were reported just within the last few days.

Read on . . .