attribution: Jeffrey Liu and flickr
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Monday, March 31, 2025
the corruption of college sports: NCAA, NIL, portal, big money, gambling, etc.
What a fine look for a Catholic university! Deep pockets--more $$$$$ to pay to "student" athletes.
What's this world coming to?
Villanova boasts: "As a Catholic, Augustinian University, Villanova values the sacredness of all creation, striving to follow Christ in an Augustinian fashion: in a personal, ongoing relationship and process of conversion. That is to say, always “on the way”, never fully arrived, walking in the footsteps of Augustine, informed and enhanced by his personal and communal experience. That ongoing relationship and conversion process is what can speak to us across the centuries to help us better understand how a follower of Christ can interpret the world in which we live."
https://villanova.com/sports/2024/12/17/villanova-athletics-fast-facts.aspx
Augustine's early life was "checkered". His family was "upper class". He went to the best schools. In his autobiography, "Confessions", Augustine agonizes over his past, recognizing that one does not desire evil for evil's sake. Rather, through an inordinate preference for these goods of a lower kind, the better and higher are neglected. In other words, man is drawn to sin when grossly choosing the lesser good over a greater good. Eventually, Augustine concludes that it was the good of "companionship" that allowed him to delight in sin.
In his thirties Augustine converted to Christianity. Augustine was canonized by popular acclaim, and later recognized as a Doctor of the Church in 1298 by Pope Boniface VIII.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo
What would St. Augustine say of Villanova's recent actions regarding its basketball program?
attribution: Jeffrey Liu and flickr
Friday, March 28, 2025
releasing details about a sneak attack
If anyone doesn't realize that releasing detailed information about an upcoming sneak attack isn't stupid, then they're a monkey's uncle.
Saturday, March 1, 2025
Zelenskyy took the bait
It just goes to show what happens when President Zelenskyy is the only adult in the room.
Shame on US voters who voted for draft-dodger and Putin boot-licker Trump. For all of its history, brave US citizens have fought and died for freedom. We need more leaders like President Zelenskyy and the proud citizens of Ukraine who will fight to their death for freedom. Draft dodger and Putin boot-licker Trump just doesn't get it.
"I learned long ago, never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it." George Bernard Shaw
attribution: Matthew Kenwrick and flickr
Wednesday, February 26, 2025
fat cats
Fat cat Donald Trump and his band of merry fat cats aren't making America great again. They're making the USA a monarchy/dictatorship--USFC, the United States of Fat Cats.
Gut the Justice Department, IRS, USAID, etc.--any program that doesn't benefit fat cat Trump and his band of self-serving fat cats.
Endorse any program for the rich--including selling "gold cards" to immigrant fat cats.
And it's all happening right in front of us.
Say goodbye to the United States of America.
Good luck to all those who, like us, aren't fat cats. We may have to find another country to live in.
attribution: Dan Perry and flickr
My apology to Dan Perry's wife's cat. Comparing cats to fat cat Trump and his band of self-serving fat cats is an insult to cats.
Monday, December 9, 2024
freedom
people of China, Russia, North Korea, Iran, and other countries that oppress their citizens,
Syria did it.
YOU can do it too!
Friday, November 1, 2024
and you thought that George Santos was bad?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santos
This has been the nastiest, most partisan, most negative, most divisive, election that I've ever seen--local, state and federal.
Is our country divided? Does a bear poop in the woods?
Here's who to blame:
attribution: Democracy Chronicles and flickr
Saturday, October 5, 2024
breaking down the debate
It's simple.
- it's the extreme left democratic party vs. the extreme right republican party
- 1/2 of registered voters won't vote
- flip a coin
I'll be part of the 1/2 majority. I've got better things to do than to support extremist party politics.
attribution: Democracy Chronicles and flickr
"I am not a robot."
are you sure?
do you think for yourself? or do you let someone(s) or something(s) else do your thinking for you? are you brainwashed?
are you addicted? to alcohol? to drugs? to your phone? to pleasure? comfort? are you addicted to an ideology? to media? to religion? to a political party?
do you care about other people? poverty? hunger? homelessness? oppression? do you care about the environment? global warming? pollution? or do you care only about yourself?
let's not fool ourselves--we're all robots.
attribution: Rachel.Adams and flickr
Saturday, July 13, 2024
senseless violence
one rally attendee dead. several wounded, including one in critical condition. shooter dead.
a lone wolf, mentally ill person with a gun? a legal gun? an illegal gun? drug addict?
what is clear is that this is another senseless crime.
I wouldn't go to a political rally for all of the tea in china.
will it ever be safe to go anywhere?
attribution: Thomas Hawk and flickr
Thursday, July 11, 2024
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