I don’t know how the Catholic Church manages to hold itself together in the face of all these revelations. The Dutch church was practicing the usual heedless barbarities. Up to 11 boys were castrated while in the care of the Dutch Roman Catholic church in the 1950s to rid them of homosexuality, a newspaper investigation …
Category Archive: Crime
Feb 01 2013
Criminals! Every one of you!
This is the law under which Aaron Swartz was persecuted. Remember this: you are guilty, guilty, guilty, every one of you, and the law consists of sifting through all the crimes you have committed and deciding which one they can use this time. (via Tom the Dancing Bug, obviously.)
Jan 28 2013
Sophisticated theology
Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Los Angeles Catholic diocese has been apparently involved in major cover-ups of child abuse scandals during his tenure.He has promoted all kinds of sneaky maneuvers to keep priestly child rapers out of jail. “Sounds good — please proceed!” the cardinal, now retired, instructed in 1987 after the aide, Msgr. Thomas …
Jan 24 2013
The Republicans really hate women
They’re still going at it, and the latest effort in New Mexico will take your breath away with its sheer vindictive nastiness. Should a recently introduced bill in New Mexico become law, rape victims will be required to carry their pregnancies to term during their sexual assault trials or face charges of “tampering with evidence.” …
Jan 23 2013
And now for some real drama…
Let’s have a big drawn-out fight over something that really matters, that will draw in lots of comments, and will infuriate some readers. Let’s argue over the Oxford Comma. Line up and take sides. I am most definitely PRO-Oxford Comma, and if you think otherwise, I’ll beat you up.
Jan 22 2013
Another shooting at a college
The news is all very preliminary, but they’re reporting two shooters and three people injured. If only it had occurred in a place with armed guards and a concealed carry law… Oh, wait. It was in Texas. The rootin’ tootin’ cowboy attitude doesn’t help at all, does it?
Jan 17 2013
This will sound familiar…
This letter in the New York Times from 1906 was found by Thomas Lawson. I’d kind of like to see the previous letter that prompted it — it seems that men have been denying sexism for over a century.
Jan 13 2013
What was that about his Catholicism again?
William Oddie, the Catholic writer for the Catholic Herald who writes about Catholic concerns, is very irate. It seems a popular celebrity recently died, and the newspapers were fulsome in their obituaries, praising his charitable works and his lifelong generosity, but almost none of them mentioned that he was a devout Catholic who attended Mass …
Jan 13 2013
The death of Aaron Swartz
Many of you already know that Aaron Swartz, an online activist, committed suicide earlier this week. I didn’t know much about him, but now I’ve learned two things. One, he was a victim of depression. I’ve never experienced this personally — at worst I can say I’ve been sad and stressed at time — but …
Jan 09 2013
Every man thinks he’s Clint Eastwood
Sam Harris has really done it now. He’s stepped into the gun control debate with The Riddle of the Gun, and he’s taking the side of Wayne LaPierre of the NRA. And he’s also making a series of logic-defying assertions that have no credibility at all. I’m not even going to try to work through …
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