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.
Eric Zorn put in his place
Nice handling of the Zorn-man of Chi Trib.
Hopium springs eternal, and thanx to Zorn for answer my unspoken questions of what makes Obama lovers tick and what do they think of the national debt.
And lovers is not too strong a word. How else continue with the hopium?
Catholic religious educators rock to ’80s sound
At Los Angeles convention, the “We are the worled” sound.
[The] music is dated, while chants written a millennium prior are not. The reason is: the earlier music was not ephemeral. It was not written to satisfy a perceived (usually hopelessly outdated) current theological or musical trend, but to give expression to the deep faith that can truly sustain a Christian.
The price of being with it.
the words too, sound exactly like We Are the World, which, with admirable clarity, expresses secular humanism.
Sung by all-stars.
Fed in control from beginning?
“When the Federal Reserve Act was passed, the people of these United States did not perceive that a world banking system was being set up here. A super-state controlled by international bankers and industrialists…acting together to enslave the world…Every effort has been made by the Fed to conceal its powers but the truth is–the Fed has usurped the government.”
(1876-1936) US Congressman (R-PA) (1915-1935), Chairman of House Banking and Currency Committee. Poisoned in 1936.
Slogan for the Trayvon case
Obama bullsh-ts his way around the world
This Danish fellow has one of the strongest wits we have ever encountered. He punches above his weight all the time. Have a look.
Resisting Catholicism
This fellow, a writer living in Italy, tells here a funny, irreverent, sad story in which he bemoans Italians and the pressure he is put under to become Catholic.
But I have to, at least would like to, think he’s in a process of discovery and, frankly, would welcome more from him in this vein. He asks good questions, for one thing.
There’s a lot of this going on, this Catholic awareness expressed by writers. Aren’t things Catholic being discussed a lot?
Obama bugs you? Count the reasons.
Next time you’re at a loss about what you object to from Obama, take a look at this schema.
Trayvon attacked Zimmerman?
Sanford FL police have witness to that effect, with corroboration based on sound of Zimmerman’s yelling “Help, help” on the 911 call made by the witness.
Zimmerman says the shooting was self defense. According to information released on the Sanford city website, Zimmerman said he was going back to his SUV when he was attacked by the teen.
Sanford police say Zimmerman was bloody in his face and head, and the back of his shirt was wet and had grass stains, indicating a struggle took place before the shooting.
Bad enough, bias by Revs. Jackson and Sharpton, but the president is supposed not to buy into initial maybe-false accounts.
He did it before, remember, in the case of the Cambridge cop and the black professor. Bad habit. One would think he’s no better than those two hustlers.
