Saturday, May 29, 2010

Jesuits again

The Jesuit CEO of UCA News says that the Catholic understanding of transubstantiation is no longer tenable in our "post-Newtonian world of quantum physics."

Sunday, May 23, 2010

Welfare

In America there is a bumper sticker that says "Work harder, millions on welfare depend on you."

Socialism

"The problem with socialism is sooner or later you run out of other people's money." - Margaret Thatcher

Money

Money can't buy you friends, but it does get you a better class of enemy" – Spike Milligan

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Luck

As the song says, if it weren’t for bad luck, the Democratic Party would have no luck at all

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

O'Malley

More and more O'Malley appears to be a dissenter from Church orthodoxy and on the side of secular forces. He seems more faithful to the Boston Globe than the Roman Curia.

Admiral King

Adm. Ernest J. King, bullied and cajoled. (“He is the most even-tempered man in the Navy,” his daughter said. “He is always in a rage.”)