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
Yes, mind-numbing. From the Babylon Bee. Our feeble Christian minds… Better go buy a fedora, because you’re about to become an atheist. 1. If God’s real, why do dinosaurs go roar? Fossils exist. Dinosaurs go roar. You can’t explain that. 2. How come your so-called “god” doesn’t believe the exact same things I do? If I … Read more
A 25 year old woman. Brooklyn Rock Climber Dies In The Hudson Valley She was climbing Sunday in the Shawangunk Mountains. Lauren Sobel of Brooklyn, NY was a lead climber in a group of three, police said. Sobel, 25, was about 70 feet up the rock face and was setting protection gear in the rocks … Read more
Having posted AOC's silly raving here – AOC on Saint Damien of Molokai: "Example of White Supremacist Culture" , this is a good article about the wonderful Saint. It's from the interfaith publication First Things. Marisol Escobar’s statue of St. Damien of Molokai has graced the statuary hall in the U.S. Capitol since 1969. The … Read more
I had noticed this myself – the police forces are more diverse than the protestors. Who knew most Antifa people had Trust Funds? This from the BB. A Black Lives Matter protest in South Carolina started to get out of hand, with people screaming at police officers stationed nearby. It threatened to get violent until … Read more
From the Jesuit publication America – Worth hitting the link and reading the whole thing. RNS) — Many Americans assume the U.S. Catholic bishops are supporters of Donald Trump. True, when it comes to pro-life issues and religious freedom, the bishops are in Trump’s corner, but on several issues, they strongly criticize the administration. … Read more
To quote the late Archbishop Fulton Sheen from a talk he gave titled “The Approach of Midnight” (from minute 9:30 on, for one minute), it was the worse thing done in US history because “It wiped out all the boundaries”. Here’s something (an excerpt) that I sent around to my own Church’s Pastoral Council. I … Read more