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Soldierettes Cry “Racism” Over Hairdo’s

  HENRY McCULLOCH writes: The latest dark twist (pun intended) that feminism and mandated diversity has brought to our new and unimproved armed forces is a flap over women's hairstyles, as the Army Times reports.  Black soldierettes are complaining that certain restrictions on America's Amazons' hairdos are "racially biased."  This will no doubt lead to the "leadership" of our New Model Army's getting its panties in a twist trying to figure out how to placate the dissed Amazons who are complaining. Looking at the pictures of the proscribed fashions, the regulations seem reasonable to me.  Of course, if the U.S. armed forces were reasonable organizations suited to their stated purpose, no such regulations would be necessary.

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April 2, 2014
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Walking in the Valley of the Shadow …. of Pizza

 

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MICHAEL writes:

I am a regular reader who finds solace in your posts.  I am a Catholic living in Marin County, California.  If you know anthing about this place, you know that I am very much alone. As one friend in North Carolina puts it, I am “deep inside enemy territory.”  In the interest of keeping the peace, I keep my faith and views to myself unless I know I am among kindred spirits — and thankfully, there are a few.  Thoughtful debate of differing points of view?  No, thank you — we’re liberals.  Anything that does not cleave to the progressive orthodoxy is shouted down, mocked, ridiculed and ostracized.  I am grateful for your site and others like it, for I would be still more alone without them.

One needn’t go as far as New Zealand to experience cultural decline through pizza.  Not three miles from where I sit is a pizza hotspot, quite popular with families in our upper-middle-class area.  There is a large playroom for children, a wide selection of craft-brewed beers, and a cool, hipster vibe.  It’s run and frequented by Brazilians, which gives it instant cachet.  Perhaps not coincidentally, Brazilians also make up a large portion of the nannies and childcare providers in the area, and they often bring the children in their care to this place.  It’s a lively scene, parents socializing while drinking and munching pizza; kids playing; large-screen TV’s showing sports, and a brewing apparatus on full display behind glass walls.

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April 2, 2014
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A Lenten Meditation

  FROM Meditations for Lent from St. Thomas Aquinas: Christ truly suffered for us, leaving us an example in anxieties, contempts, scourgings, the cross, death itself, that we might follow in His steps. If we endure for Christ our own anxieties and sufferings, we shall also reign together with Christ in the happiness that is everlasting. St. Bernard says, " How few are they, O Lord, who yearn to go after Thee, and yet there is no one that desireth not to come to Thee, for all men know that in Thy right hand are delights that will never fail. All desire to enjoy Thee, but not all to imitate Thee. They would willingly reign with Thee, but spare themselves from suffering with Thee. They have no desire to look for Thee, whom yet they desire to find."

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April 1, 2014
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Pizza from Hell

 

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MICHAEL R. writes:

You make interesting associations between pizza and dysfunction in the modern world so I thought a pizza chain, Hell Pizza, which has started here in New Zealand and spread elsewhere, might interest you. As a marketing tool, its reversal of what we might normally expect has a quirky attraction, yet the continuing and growing evisceration of language will not be without ill effect.  The menu options include : Lust Deluxe, Lust, Greed, Envy, Pride, Sloth, Gluttony,  Pandemonium,  Grimm, Creator, Limbo, Damned,  Sinister, Underworld, Serpent. Snack Pizza with One Topping For Your Little Devil, or a Snack Pizza With One Topping and a Kids’ Drink For Your Little Devil.

 Condition the kid’s and condition the consumer in one easy serving.

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April 1, 2014
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The Formerly White City of St. Louis

 

The Stix Baer and Fuller Department Store in St. Louis in 1959
The Stix Baer and Fuller Department Store in St. Louis in 1959

ALAN writes:

Speaking of savages:

One night last week, a thug fired eight to ten gunshots through a window of a house in south St. Louis.  An 11-year-old boy (black) was struck and killed, though he was not the intended victim.  The response by “The Law” and the “news media” was the standard mix of evasions, omissions, and ready-made phrases.

The context for that is this: That house is in an area that was occupied fifty years ago only by white men and families. I know, because I was there and walked through that area many times.  A miniature golf course was just down the street. I had cousins who lived a few blocks away. In 1962, I had friends who lived one block away.  They and I walked throughout that neighborhood that summer as we compared the merits of current hit songs by Pat Boone, Connie Francis, and Jimmy Dean. My boyhood doctor’s office was two blocks away.  The Little Sisters of the Poor were three blocks away and had been there since 1902.

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April 1, 2014