Elected months ago, he’s looking remarkably good.
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.
Curiosity a balm to Cardinal in this life and the next
Days before he died, Cardinal George reportedly told seminary rector Father Robert Barron that his curiosity was awakened, he was “so eager” to see God.
Wow. Like St. Therese of Lisieux, the Little Flower, who rejoiced when she coughed blood, knowing that the end was near.
Secret Service again, sloppy about security. Blame it on Bush?
Is this part of the Obama legacy, a general inattention to details and bad management?
The Secret Service took more than a year to replace a broken alarm system at former president George H.W. Bush’s home, raising concerns within the agency about the safety of the Houston residence and the Bush family, according to a government report scheduled to be released Thursday.
Or can he blame it on (GW) Bush?
How to get yourself labeled a bad apple
“One of the best ways to get yourself a reputation
as a dangerous citizen these days
is . . .
Monument to Tastelessness, anyone? Try the biggest apple in the whole wide world
If you thought biting cultural criticism was dead, just in case you thought so anyhow, consider this about a new pride of the prideful Manhattan island:
On a recent visit to New York City, I had the opportunity to walk around the exterior of the new Whitney Museum, built at a cost of $442 million. It is a monument of a kind: to the vanity, egotism, and aesthetic incompetence of celebrity architects such as Renzo Piano, and to the complete loss of judgment and taste of modern patrons.
It’s by Theodore Dalrymple, in City Journal for April 22, 2015
Let’s hear it for fossil fuels . . .
The Rauner-proposed budget cuts are trashed in a Harmon-Lilly town hall: Suffering is described by many people
The town hall meeting about budget cuts called by Sen. Don Harmon in Elmwood Park on April 6, had words of defense for the cuts from just one person, among scores of complaints.
About an hour into the meeting, in the main meeting room of the public library just off Grand Avenue a half-mile west of Harlem, a man asked about “the elephant in the room,” meaning the state’s fiscal crisis. “Don’t blame it all on [Gov.] Rauner,” he said. The stories of being harmed by the cuts are important, he continued, but so are the state’s financial problems.
When the man finished, after a slight pause Harmon announced the availability of water bottles “up here, which some might like, since it’s rather warm in here.” Then he gave the floor to Rep. Camille Lilly, who stood next to him in front of 100 or so people packed into the…
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‘Leave It to Beaver’ vs. ‘Modern Family’ | The Britany Elizabeth Blo g
Even though I am considered an “English” teacher, I would rather call myself a “thinking” teacher. In my opinion, it is more important to teach kids how to think than it is to teach them what a synechedoche or polysyndeton is
You hear it a lot among school people. She can teach about synecdoche, including how to spell it, but is seduced by the impossible dream of teaching “how to think.”
Embattled DEA chief to resign following ‘sex parties’ scandal – The Washingt on Post
Michele Leonhart, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, is seen here testifying on Capitol Hill in 2013. (Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP)
Not what we think of when we hear drug enforcement.
. . . With Both Hands: TJ & The Cardinal 2011
Pat Hickey gives backstory on this remarkable picture.
It’s the one that stayed with me that I mentioned in my Sun-Times column yesterday.
Blithe Spirit 