Congratulations to the media relations/promotion people at Lurie Children’s Hospital for the over-the-top coverage of its recent move and even now in back-to-business stories.
Those things don’t just happen. Lots of work goes into it, from influence of influential board members, who may be directors on various media boards, down to release writers and arrangers.
Over the top, I fear, however. How much Lurie is too much? Just asking.
Vatican just doing its job in re: U.S. nuns under fire, says St. Louis columnist:
Both the Vaticans proposed reform of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and its rebuke of a controversial book written by the theologian Sister Margaret Farley are targeted critiques intended to fulfill one of the Catholic hierarchys most vital functions: defense of the deposit of faith. That defense necessarily entails public clarification about what does and does not constitute authentic Catholic teaching.
Question is whether bishops should ignore what violates teaching. Name me the organization that lets important stuff pass, and you name one in decline.
Dissent can never get out of hand? Yes? No? As Cardinal George told a breakfast audience at the Union League Club weeks ago in connection with the HHS mandate, it’s a matter of one’s identity. He called the mandate identity theft. Sounds right.
This sales review at Oak Park’s The Book Table, is wrong in at least one major respect. First, the review:
Twilight of the Elites
America after Meritocracyby Christopher Hayes
A powerful and original argument that traces the roots of our present crisis of authority to an unlikely source: the meritocracy.Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another–from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball–imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
How did we get here? With Twilight of the Elites, Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into…
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| You have this Christian quirk about gay marriage. Hey, you were practically born with it.You become a latter-day Bartleby the Scrivener(apologies to Herman Melville, wherever he is, and if there’s a heavenly niche for great writers, that’s probably his location).That is, you’d prefer not to be the photographer at a gay wedding.You do not intend to interfere with the gay ceremony.
You will not call out from the congregation your objection when the minister or judge asks, if he or she does, whether anyone has an objection to the procedure. You will not (let’s say, anyhow) write a letter to your local editor or, God forbid, blog the matter. You just, like Bartleby, prefer not, for your quirky Christian reasons, to be the photographer. What’s more, you reside and work in New Mexico. Wherefore: . |
Guest blogger Mike Fahy is a Chicago lawyer:
From 11AM until the Walker victory party on the isthmus, I worked the university campus wards in Madison doing vote-fraud lawyer work to prevent gov’t union thugs from stealing Scott Walker‘s job. A Madison judge had encouraged vote fraud by postponing implementation of photo I.D. cards for voting (a Walker reform) until the November election.
Strange election law in the People’s Republic of Madison: A voter cannot wear a small Walker campaign button, but it is legal to wear a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “Barrett for Governor” and his big Blue Fist campaign emblem — the Marxist fist of international socialist tyranny.
Here is the fun part: Liberals in the People’s Republic of Madison actually began celebrating shortly before the polls closed at 8 PM. The Madison board of elections had announced the expected voter turnout in Madison would be…
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Coming up, FYI, is the 17th anniversary of the 4th of July barbecue in Bill Ayers’ and Bernardine Dohrn’s backyard at which then U.S. Senator Obama appeared and socialized.
That should be worth a firecracker or two. We should have heard of this long ago, darn it. We could have been celebrating it.
Wed. Journal on Oak Park fire:
There is probable cause to indicate that arson may have been the cause of a fire early Sunday that destroyed a gay nightclub in a building on the northeast corner of Lake Street and Oak Park Avenue, according to a statement from the village.
Please. Is probable cause to think arson was the cause. Or simply is cause to think it may have been. That double clutch is annoying — probable and may have been. It shows the writer is or wants us to be doubly uncertain. Not necessary. News accounts are full of such doubling up.
