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We remember Ingrid Bergman (1915-1982)

Silvio Canto, Jr.
8/28/2025 10:01:00 PM

            The beautiful and talented Ingrid Bergman was born on August 29, 1915 and died on the same day in 1982.   Her film debut was David O. Selznicks Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939).  In 1942, she made "Casablanca" with Humphrey Bogart.   Then came "For Whom the Bell Tolls" in 1943 and few others.  Her movies were great   Watch one today.        P.S.  You can listen to my show.  If you like our posts, please look for Donate on the right column of the blog page.       

Cracker cracked, the Minneapolis shooting and other stories

Silvio Canto, Jr.
8/28/2025 1:00:00 PM
      Cracker cracked, the Minneapolis shooting and other stories         

Be Nice, Don't Judge The Truth

K T Cat
8/28/2025 6:19:38 AM

Of all the various organizations, governments and institutions in the world, two of the very few whose mission is to pursue the Truth are the Catholic Church and empirical science*. Political parties exist to get elected. Private enterprise institutions, including our universities, exist to get funding. Only the Church and true science need to justify changes through reconciliation or argument with past doctrines and beliefs. Protestant Christianity isn't included because it lives in a no-man's land with its preference for personal interpretation over dogma.True science doesn't have an institution that defends it. The ethical collapse of Scientific American and the capitulation of most of our top universities to cultural[...]

Be Nice, Don't Judge The Diocese

K T Cat
8/26/2025 4:47:57 PM

I've been pondering this for quite a while now. It's been a hard one to pin down and organize in my head so instead of simply posting slop, I've sat back and thought. None of it was worked out with AI because I sometimes find my thoughts too influenced, too guided when I do that.Aside: I heard someone recently say that public intellectuals (of which I am not one) who have podcasts never have the time to ponder and think deep thoughts once they start their podcast careers. The demands of constant content creation take away their quiet, ruminative time.I went to our Diocesan synod meeting last weekend. I thought it was horrendous. I don't think the idea of synodal processes - listening to each other and having deep discussions[...]

It's different this time

W.C. Varones
8/11/2025 9:23:05 AM

No, really. It is.        

Depopulation

W.C. Varones
3/31/2025 5:50:52 AM
I meet a lot of very cool 30-ish people who dont seem to be on the path to having kids. Huge mistake. Kids are awesome.Its the circle of life. Its meant to be. Whether you believe in God or not, nature wants you to have kids.All your ancestors had children. Youre going to end a family tradition of millions of years because its inconvenient for your current lifestyle?

What Ails Us - But First Some Background

B-Daddy
4/6/2025 5:10:10 PM
Someone close to me asked me to give an overall take on the current state of politics and the prospects for our future. I thought to answer, but first want to explain how I analyze the political landscape.Here are some key principles that are worth repeating because we seem to forget them.1. A chicken is an eggs way of making another egg.      To influence the the size and numbers of your chickens, manage egg production and consumption. Demographics are destiny.2. Eggs are rare, sperm is plentiful.      Combined with 1 above, the most important variable component of demographic destiny is female reproductive behavior and strategies.3. Testosterone confers greater strength and aggression[...]

Bezos vs Burnham - Robber Baron vs Managers

B-Daddy
1/26/2022 8:32:44 PM
 Well not really; and not just because Burnham isn't a household name. James Burnham authored key insights on "managerialism" and predicted its eventual triumph over capitalism in his 1941 book "The Managerial Revolution," summarized here, but skip ahead 5 minutes (this is a great podcast). George Orwell provided this summary in 1943.Capitalism is disappearing, but Socialism is not replacing it. What is now arising is a new kind of planned, centralized society which will be neither capitalist nor, in any accepted sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be the people who effectively control the means of production: that is, business executives, technicians, bureaucrats and soldiers,[...]

Natural Born Citizen Definition

Doo Doo Econ
1/19/2016 6:08:58 PM

    Once again Americans are facing questions about the definition of a Natural Born Citizen (NBC).This is the simple and indisputable definition: Two citizens who have a child, naturally create a new citizen. This is a Natural Born Citizen.There is absolutely no expert either legal or historical who will argue to the contrary. They may argue to include additional citizens, but this is the core of the definition.Two people who have a child in a location, have a citizen who is native to that land. This is a Native Born Citizen. Thus, terms like "Native American" which imply a location and not an allegiance to a country.A person can be both Natural Born and Native Born, or in the United States we also have Naturalized[...]

Obama Fuels Eternal Islamic War on America

Doo Doo Econ
8/5/2015 5:00:00 AM

                Do you remember the headlines when Obama apparently declared America a Muslim country on French television?    Taken from an Islamic perspective this statement is dangerous. It sounds as if the President of the United States sees America is a Muslim nation. When you consider translations, this may presented to the masses as exactly that, American President Hussein (an exclusively Islamic name)  Obama declares America to be Islamic. Thus America would be "al-Islam", or territory which may never be ceded to non-Muslims.Semantics, right? Over-reaction, right?Except, this is a long standing meme from not only the President, but also his staffers.   [...]

And Where a Salon Scribe Gets a Tad Out of His Swim Lane

Dean
11/11/2015 9:22:09 AM
Over the weekend, Salon writer, DAVID MASCIOTRA, caused quite a dust-up on social media with his own salute to the troops ahead of Veterans Day . Here is the headline, followed by the sub-headline and then followed by the first paragraph of the piece:You dont protect my freedom: Our childish insistence on calling soldiers heroes deadens real democracyIt's been 70 years since we fought a war about freedom. Forced troop worship and compulsory patriotism must endPut a man in uniform, preferably a white man, give him a gun, and Americans will worship him. It is a particularly childish trait, of a childlike culture, that insists on anointing all active military members and police officers as heroes.If you desire, you can read it[...]

Football rules changes...? You've come to the right place

Dean
1/31/2015 2:04:56 PM

    Theres no denying that over the last few decades most all on-field rules changes made by the NFL have been exercises in increasing offense and scoring. This has created an arms race in a sense where the pendulum swings back and forth between the NFL offenses and NFL defenses whereby the offenses get aided by rules changes and the defenses counter with a combination of innovative schemes and superior athletes. To wit, for years, its been conventional wisdom that the best athletes in the world were in the NBA. Now days, we would add NFL defensive backs and possibly outside linebackers/rush ends into that mix (you dont think dudes like Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and J.J. Watt can ball a little?).But[...]

Trumps New CDC Chief Fights Ouster as Top Agency Officials Step Down 

Leslie Eastman

Meanwhile, HHS head RFK, Jr. indicates he will release findings related to autism in September.The post Trumps New CDC Chief Fights Ouster as Top Agency Officials Step Down first appeared on Legal Insurrection.

SpaceXs Starship Completes 10th Test Flight Successfully 

Leslie Eastman

Starship did everything SpaceX asked it to.The post SpaceXs Starship Completes 10th Test Flight Successfully first appeared on Legal Insurrection.