A Plate of Cookies

Three guys get together in a room with a plate of cookies on the table. A dozen cookies. The first guy is a billionaire, the other two are a union worker and a tea party activist. The billionaire garbs 11 cookies and says to each of the others --hey he's trying to grab your cookie.

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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'

Seeking the Romance of Life

A recent trip back to California, where I spent the middle half of my life (the part between the Seattle bookends) and other smaller events have made me reflective of past events and places. My brothers and I stopped in Santa Cruz, briefly, where I had lived for years, and stopped by a nightclub I had spent time in, the Catalyst, and asked the bartender the current status of local things. I found out Club Zayante in the Santa Cruz Mountain had closed. When I got home I researched the Club, which was once of the hottest nightclubs in Central California to learn what happened. I found out the club had closed for financial reasons then burned down. But what I learned about the owner, Tom Louagie intrigued me. He had come out from the east coast on a romantic quest, to find the Cannery Row he had read in Steinbeck. He had the idea of moving there and living a literary dream from the past. He didn't know that that Cannery Row had died...

Just War and Just a War

One of the thorniest problems man face is when, if every is war justified. The bible says there is a time for war and a time for peace, but that could be just a bow to the inevitability of war in the fallen world. If also says that they will beat there swords into plough shares and study war no more. Dorothy Day, Peter Maurin, William Miller and other Catholic Workers often ascribed to pacifism or near total pacifism face with the near impossibility of every untangling the moral consequences of violence from the ends desired in undertaking it. But St. Augustine, faced with a world where Christians were starting to replace pagans as political leaders and Christians we soldiers in obedience to the leaders tried to come up with criteria by which war could be measured. Augustine knew that the Gospel question on it was complex. One the one hand Jesus told people to turn the other cheek and also told Peter to put away his sword and not defe...

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