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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.
Bernardine, the Justice Dept. hardly knew ye . . .
. . . when it gave $400G to something you’re a director of. Congratulations, girl, you have come a long way (from your FBI-wanted days).
(HT: Sun-Times, which appropriately if surprisingly features the story prominently.)
Kookiness and spookiness with Fr. Rohr
Wheeling Jesuit’s investigated vice president leaving
J. Davitt McAteer leaving Wheeling Jesuit U. As the ChiSox TV announcer would say, “He gone.”
McAteer is under federal investigation for how he handled millions in NASA grants. In 2009 he was on the inside at WJU to the extent that he was appointed, we know not by whom, acting president when the Jesuit president was fired peremptorily and mysteriously by fellow Jesuits after two years in office.
He will be on the outside as of June 30, when his contract will be not renewed, no reason given by the current president. In the affidavit submitted by the investigating federal agent, McAteer is said to have admitted diversion of federal funds to cover unrelated WJU expenses and been told no problem by the WJU directors.
Very sticky business.
President Beyer and “James Fleming” (thus the news story, not saying he is Rev., S.J., who as University Vice President and Chief of Staff is the highest-ranking Jesuit at WJU) take over the relevant federal programs.
(Story broken and posted at Fox by AP 8 hrs before this by Wheeling Intelligencer, based on email sent to alumni, which email is to be only announcement, said WJU spokeswoman.)
You know us, Kathleen. Not to worry.
Let not this Sebelius appearance stand for university integrity, hearing all sides, etc.
There is no clash of ideas in the holding up of a commencement speaker for all to see, no intellectual honesty for which Jesuits et al. at Georgetown are to be praised. Nothing like any of that. Just politics.
They say, We’re with you, Sebelius, you can count on us.
Out of Washington a bit of wisdom
Rep. Paul Ryan has original idea: Measure a program by how well it works, not how much it costs.
I vouch for the author completely . . .
Word to the wise . . .
“Not really” is the new “No.” Or so I thought before running across this encyclopedic account.
While you (we) are at it (I?), consider the New Yorker cartoon by Edward Koren cited in Times Literary Supplement, 9/23/11 (but earlier in a textbook, Philosophy: An Introduction to the Art of Wondering, by James L. Christian, originally published in 1973), in which the devil laments:
It’s getting much harder for me to distinguish good from evil. All I’m certain about is what’s appropriate and inappropriate.
Quoted by Rae Langton, reviewing Terry Eagleton’s On Evil (Yale).
Lady of house is not amused when I referred to our parish church as “that neighborhood emporium of grace and salvation.”
Another time, maybe, but I take her as Everywoman responding to my various bon mots and salvos in the cause of humor as antidote (temporary, yes, but what isn’t in our vale of tears?) to the slough of despond* that ever beckons, at least to THINKING PEOPLE.
* Not quite, if I go entirely with Bunyan. Despondency?
Vegans for life? Not quite
The case for not eating meat, by David Sirota, is also a case for mandatory scanning of fetus by abortion-seekers, but Sirota doesn’t make the fetus case.
One of his [11] commenters notes this: “Sirota echoes an argument from the anti-abortion folks.” He or she is answered with this: “Only if the mothers eat the fetuses.” Followed by: “first they come for the placenta…. ”
Heh-heh: having fun with the opposition, and this on the somewhat religion-oriented, firmly pacifist and other sort of leftist position-taking Truth Dig site.
