July 14, 2021

Bastille Day, commemorated by twin flags side by side on a house on Bryn Mawr, U.S. and francaise.

“My friend” “Be safe” “Have a nice rest of the day” — OK words of our day, heard from several gentlemen closing down their Starbucks sidewalk confabulation.

Famous 20th-century writers Beckett and Joyce ended their careers writing “more and more for their own pleasure and interest.” “Seemed to,” at any rate. Also “seemed to leave more and more readers behind.” (p. 7 of Lydia Davis’ Essays One, Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2019)

Starbucks wants to “add a little joy to [my] day,” it says on the cup before me. Is this a cup I see before me? Indeed it is, and a potentially joyful one at that.

Two ladies of advanced years get off bicycles, one waits outside for the other, posting her little black and white…

. . . Barring no holds.

* Chicago’s problem isn’t “no control”, there’s too too too much “control” coming from our SJW/BLM/WTF mayor, hampering police efforts, too too too much “control” from Foxx, Evans, Preckwinkle, et al in regards to BLM/SJW agenda. Civility is absent, victim of “white privilege” rhetoric, and in exchange we get “rage in the streets” rhetoric to justify lawlessness, violence, and disregard for public safety.

* . . . No Control for an orgy of progressive fantasies. This is exactly what the city wants and they want more, not less of it. Lori’s massive security detail is because progressives don’t think she’s gone far enough. She doesn’t fear conservatives. She fears left wing progressives who are upset she hasn’t completely dismantled the police department by now. Can the ‘journalist’ at crAins be so dumb not to see this?

* Foxx is a bigger problem than…

. . . there to help.

Butter would not melt in their mouths.

I do, at my local. They tell something about the placers of same. (You are what you order.)

Lessons for us all.

E.g., Tall, balding masked man in shorts brings electric scooter in with him, places order, gets it, scoots away, as quick as you please. Paid, but if he hadn’t, it would have been the Great Scooter Robbery, 7/11/21.

Or the healthy young man: large iced carmel latte with whipped cream, electric scooter parked outside in clear sight. Would also have been a great scooter robbery — notice lower case, the original would already have happened. He paid too, by the way.

Get a hammer, there’s a fly on baby’s nose response never did work all that well:

New figures released by researchers in the UK show that just 25 under-18’s died from COVID from March 2020 to February 2021, two-thirds of whom had “chronic” health conditions, and that lockdown measures aimed at children “may prove a greater risk than that of SARS-CoV-2 itself.”

The numbers show that there is around a 1 in 500,000 chance of children dying from coronavirus in England, and that includes victims of pre-existing medical conditions, like heart disease and cancer.

“More than 75 per cent of the children who died had chronic conditions, while two thirds had more than one underlying condition and 60 per cent had life-limiting conditions,” reports the Daily Mail.

During the same time period, 124 children died from suicide and 268 died from trauma.

Did they act the drill sergeant? Some did, I know that. Verrry serious about it, oh yeah. Interrupt the man at prayer whose mask has slipped off his nose? Believe it. Bristle at the man as he was about to leave by an unapproved aisle? Point him to the exact place he should sit, even as to where in the pew as marked by sticking point pasted there? Sure. Did they stick to their guns no matter what? You bet. . . .

Was this Covid-lockdwn massgoing? Unfortunately, in too many places, yessss . . .

. by abusing their power by pushing them around to protect the “lavendar mafia.” It happened to this fellow “nearly 10 years ago.”

Fr. John Lovell of the Diocese of Rockford, Illinois, told Alpha News in an exclusive interview Tuesday that he believes there’s a “bishop problem” in the United States, and that priests who tell the truth are being targeted by them. “Many bishops across the country, if not most, look at their priests as a problem, as a potential lawsuit,” he said. “They don’t look at their priests as sons.”

“We see bishops wanting to look tough on protecting God’s children while protecting the lavender mafia.”

Read about it at Alpha News . . .

Catholic News Agency, or any other news agency, should know better.

He cited a reticence on the part of Democrats to modify even the most extreme pro-abortion positions.

should be:

He cited a reluctance on the part of Democrats to modify even the most extreme pro-abortion positions.

Don’t make me tell it, them, him, her again.

She analyzes, when she should be cracking down on gangs — the thinking person’s mayor.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said the two attacks stemmed from “internal gang conflicts,” decrying them as “street justice” driven by a “thirst for revenge.”

Lightfoot lamented yet another summer weekend marred by mass shootings, and the wounds inflicted “psychologically” on people left “traumatized” in gang-infested neighborhoods.

“They want to engage in street justice, which is tragic and terrible,” Lightfoot said. “When they aim, they don’t get the target. They get the children and the innocent bystanders who have a right to live in our city without fear of being felled by gun violence.”

Less lamenting, telling how bad things are. Less the mother hen, helping us to understand what’s going on, more the angry mother goose, attacking with all she has at her disposal. Or telling how she will attack.

Bemoaning gangs, street justice, and the…