Robert George – pretty well-known author and speaker. After all, you make "your own truth." That's him with Cornel West. Imagine that I am running for public office—say, president of the United States—and I claim to be a “committed secular progressive.” You say, “But Professor George, you're no such thing. You're not secular—you’re Catholic; you're … Read more
This is the interfaith remembrance I had sent around – calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. It's a one hour presentation which I tuned to when it was live. The facilitator is Rev. John Dear a Catholic priest and former Jesuit. The keynote speaker is Dr. Ira Helfand (a medical doctor), one of the … Read more
Haha. John Rhys-Davies was also the voice of Treebeard the Ent in the LOTR Trilogy. And check out this recent post if you like LOTR – Lord of the Rings – "Flight to the ford" – with Liv Tyler as Arwen . Hit the arrow and then you need to hit the link taking you … Read more
Nice going. “A tax expert interviewed by the Journal in 2019 called the Biden’s scheme ‘pretty aggressive’; another told the paper it served only to avoid the payroll taxes.” Indeed it is. Not sure why the IRS wouldn’t have called those retained earnings income. Joe Biden responded to President Trump’s partial suspension of payroll-tax collections … Read more
An important feast as it says something about our ultimate destiny. Here’s a short article and more paintings below – The fact that there was a celebration of Mary’s entrance into Heaven tells us that early Christians believed that there was something special about the end of Mary’s time on earth (called her Dormition (“falling … Read more
I don't bowl but looking forward to the gym reopening. That's me wearing my Georgia t-shirt As bowling alleys resume operations, protocols for gyms will be coming Monday as well. Cuomo did not elaborate on what that might entail.
The chinchillas of course. Look very carefully and you will see all of one – Rylai, the Mom – and parts of the other two, who Brigid named Fern and Frond. (When they arrived April 20th Brigid was doing some artwork involving ferns and fronds). You can spot the nose of one, and the tail … Read more
That’s the name of a rock outcropping well above the Bear Mountain Bridge. This picture is NOT the injured hiker. It’s my hiking buddy Jeanne Marie on Anthony’s Nose in 2018. Below the picture is the story with a few pictures if you hit the link, but none show anything but the rescuers and the … Read more
The BB – AKRON, OH—Facing multiple accusations from his friends of being "on the wrong side of history," local Christian Johnsie Wheycobb consulted an obscure book of ancient biblical prophecy called Revelation to see whether or not this was true. To his pleasant surprise, his reading of Revelation confirmed that followers of Jesus are indeed … Read more
How Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez say we can finance all their ideas. Basically modern monetary theory says that the government can borrow all the money it wants, as long as the borrowing is from itself. Yup that's it. Pay my Visa bill with my American Express card. This one minute Bloomberg video explains the … Read more