Giving Up Capital Punishment for Lent

Democrats for Life, on their Facebook page, called attention to something of merit:

”Early on the morning of Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent’s season of penitence, Gov. Pat Quinn of Illinois went through some final, solitary rumination. For much of his political career, he had supported capital punishment, albeit with reservations, even debating it at the dinner table with his mother. Now a legislative bill abolishing it was waiting for his signature, or his veto…And when he signed the bill striking down the death penalty, he cited one influence by name: Cardinal Joseph Bernardin of Chicago.” From the NYT

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America Magazine Benedict XVI weighs in on "Redistribution"

Paul Ryan should perhaps look at the writings of Benedict and other recent popes on redistribution. they are most definitely teaching redistribution to help the poor, as this America article attests. America Magazine Benedict XVI weighs in on "Redistribution" : 'via Blog this'

Serenading the Donkey

Over the years I have had many times when I have had to call out others on their words, behavior, or attitudes on race, class or ethnicity and I have used a variety of means to get my point across. The first such incident was when I was 13 years old and my sister and a friend were skipping rope to the rope song that uses the "N_" word. I said we don't use that word in this place and the girls argued with me about it. I just said that if they used that word I would go tell Grandpa, and they complied. In a high school the teacher had let the discussion degenerate and the topic of "welfare" came up and a girl stated an old stereotype that my Daddy says "All the blacks go pick up their welfare checks in Cadillacs." I wanted that direction of the conversation to end immediately, so I blurted out "Well your Daddy is a racist." There was silence in the room for a couple of minutes and then the teacher changed the subject. When people have b

Striking at Bourgeois Values with "Free Stuff" Why is it that in middle class neighborhoods no one would think anything of it if you are having a "yard sale" or a "moving sale", spending your entire day selling your possessions at pennies on the dollar, a tenth of what you could get on E-Bay, making less than the federal minimum wage for your efforts, but they would shrink in horror from a "free stuff pile". What is the world coming from that they place so little value on material possessions that they would give it away for nothing. Someone will surely complain that you are doing "illegal dumping", even if you tend the pile and fold things back up. Fortunately for me, I live in a neighborhood with a heavy student population, north of Seattle's University of Washington campus, and such a pile is welcome. Having purged the house of unneeded things that aren't worth my time trying to sell (unlike my art, which I will find

Roomin' House Blues

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