"To bless people in same-sex couples without giving the impression that the Church is not validating their sexual activity is a charade. No one is fooled . . Attempting immorally to exploit God s blessings makes a mockery of His divine goodness . . " Matt Abbott, RenewAmerica.com, "Pope Francis: Don t pray it away . . Bless Gay!" [?]
Adapted from an August 2022 column
"The other day I was in Madison (Moscow-on-the-Yahara) less than half an hour before seeing a case of drug overdose." -from my Facebook page, August 2022
THAT WAS A FIRST FOR ME. I ve heard of celebrities dying with their head in a toilet, but this guy had his head in a bathroom sink at an Arby s. He was standing up – sort of – so he seemed alive yet. Another customer reported him to Arby s and before I left the police and an ambulance were there. Don t know if they were administering Narcan, or, if the guy survived.
THREE DAYS before Christmas, I walked into a bar. I looked around, but no one was there, though the Packers were playing to a full house. After a while a bartender appeared, all bubbly and bright, and I ordered a beer. As she popped the top, a stranger came in, dusting off snow, kind of nondescript. He had nary a smile, and for some reason he seemed older than he looked (though I m not too good at judging the cover of a book).
From AmericanWireNews: "A Jewish high school teacher in Queens was terrorized by a mob of left-wing students who reacted with outrage after she attended a pro-Israel rally last weekend, a terrifying incident that left her badly shaken. The target of the radicalized kids was forced to hide for over two hours in a locked office as the halls at Hillcrest High School were taken over by hundreds of young people incensed over her posting of support for the Jewish democracy to her Facebook page.
There are some sentences that should never be completed:
"America has been good to us, but."
"Thanks for the history lesson, but."
"Public education could be improved, but."