CAROLINE writes: Just had to share these pictures with you. They are photos of a "health service" vehicle at a public university. It was early in the morning when I dropped my daughter off, so the li’l car was charging in the conveniently located charging outlet. It might be redundant, as in many ways we are so far gone as a society, beyond Orwell, but there is so much wrong with this “service," one hardly knows where to begin. First of all, the condescension to ethnic minorities (image below) revolts me. Easy to see who educated the marketing firms. The nauseating coopting of a perfectly lovely color, pink. Before I read the copy on the “car,” I thought, ‘Oh no, more female cancer agitprop.' (Don't know what to think about the pig.) The car advertises "birth control" and services for "safer sex." It almost looks as if they’ll deliver their products to eager students in their dorms. (Stashed in the back compartment of course.) Don’t know. Perhaps exclusively for TTHW readers, they should add pizza delivery? As I contemplated this insult to decent people, it occurred to me that in my time of high school and college (and before I think) students carried on their own elicit affairs by themselves, with no help and guidance from the over-preening hand of the university. They had illicit sex, did drugs, got drunk—mostly on their own terms. Not that I advocate this,…

  SONG OF THE PEARL --- By Archie Sullivan I WAS made for the smallest hands to press, For the softest kiss and the still caress, For the whispered peace of a night in June, For tired eyes that watch the moon. I was made for grief and for hearts that break To passionate tears for the loved one's sake; My soul is a mist, my heart a sea, And I pave the floors of eternity.

REPUBLICANS have for quite a while been offering lip service and minor action to the anti-abortion movement in exchange for Christian Zionist support for military aggression. A podcast from the organization We Hold These Truths looks at the "bone" Trump is tossing to anti-abortion "Evangelicals" while he simultaneously ramps up threats of war. Chuck Carlson comments on the hypocrisy of Christian Zionism. The high-paid, carnival barker preachers who have led the masses into unjust wars are, despite their opposition to abortion, child killers.

  AN allocution by Pope Pius XII in 1958, posted in part at Tradition in Action, asserts that beautiful clothing "concentrates the sight on the spirit." The more materialistic a culture, the uglier and the more immodest its clothes.

FROM a 2004 piece (no longer available online) by Paul Craig Roberts:

Compare an American taxpayer’s situation today with that of a 19th century American slave.

Not all slaves worked on cotton plantations. Some with marketable skills were leased to businesses or released to labor markets, where they worked for money wages. Just like the wages of today’s taxpayer, a portion of the slave’s money wages was withheld. In those days the private owner, not the government, received the withheld portion of the slave’s wages.

Slaves in that situation were as free as today’s American taxpayer to choose their housing from the available stock, purchase their food and clothing, and entertain themselves.

In fact, they were freer than today’s American taxpayer. By hard work and thrift, they could save enough to purchase their freedom.

No American today can purchase his freedom from the IRS. (more…)

SEE many vintage photographs at Call Me Jorge of May Crownings and Processions. The one above is from 1950 and below from 1929.  

ONE OF five baby rabbits born in our garden this weekend.

  Behold the miracle of the mother of the Lord: a virgin has conceived though she knows not a man, Mary, who stands laden with her noble burden; knowing not that she is a wife, she rejoices to be a mother. She has conceived in her chaste womb one who is beautiful beyond the sons of men, and blessed for ever, she has brought forth God and man for us. Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost. (H/T Samuel Willodson)

  IT'S NOT too late to chop down a tree, make a pole, gather ribbons, pick flowers for garlands and wreaths and assemble in the village green to celebrate the first day of May and the Queen of Heaven.  

  FORMER Planned Parenthood manager Sue Thayer reveals in this video by Live Action that Planned Parenthood has had abortion quotas: “Every center had a goal for how many abortions were done.” Employees were rewarded with meeting sales goals with pizza parties, Thayer says. "It sounds kind of crazy, but pizza is a motivator."

“OPIATES killed ten times as many Americans in one year as all terror attacks in last 20 years.” Unintentional drug overdose is now the primary cause of accidental deaths in the United States, Claire Bernish reports.

Read about how Oxycontin, the painkiller blamed for many cases of opiate addiction, was marketed to the medical establishment by Purdue Pharma: (more…)

NICK writes:

I’ve emailed you in the past about certain topics you helped with. So, I thought I’d ask another if you have the time to answer.

On the recent Easter Vigil I was confirmed into the Catholic Church. For the past decade I’ve studied Thomistic philosophy, even uprooting myself from my rural home in North Carolina and moving to Houston to attend a Catholic University to further my education. Still, I went through RCIA, which was little more than deacons expressing their personal testimonials and religious experiences. (more…)

  "TO the servant of God, every place is the right place, and every time is the right time." ---- Letter T328, St. Catherine of Siena (1347-1380)    

A HIGH school teacher in Downingtown, Pennsylvania aggressively harassed a couple of students protesting abortion outside his school. (Language warning.) At The Philadelphia Inquirer, a commenter writes: This guy is the epitome of the modern liberal (no longer liberal - only communist/socialist). Back in the day if you didn't like someone's message, you ignored it and moved on, knowing that you [could] push your own message just as they could if you so wanted. Now the modern liberal, exactly like this guy, seeks active obstruction of that speech in lieu of pushing his own. Get in their face, cuss at them, yell at them, and shout and dance over their message, to suppress their speech. Very bullying tactics - the heckler's veto. Knowledge is power right? If their knowledge couldn't stand up to a debate, why would he try to suppress them? People should know more. They should know all sides of the issue, and logically deduce themselves and from shared debates and discourse, the end logical conclusion. Instead he suppresses opposing viewpoints. Does he not think that his students should be exposed to all sides of the issue?? It seems so. As Bill Maher would say - a modern book burner.

  DON'T DIE, dear reader. Please don't die. I am experienced enough with this regrettable phenomenon to advise you -- without hesitation or doubt -- that you should not die. Do something else instead. Go for a walk in the woods. Get a haircut. Have a glass of wine or start a new hobby or write poetry. Anything, for Pete's sake. But, die? It's not worth it. Interesting yes, but not worth the trouble. If death comes knocking at your door, politely decline. There are some experiences you don't need on your resumé. But ... you must die someday, you say? "I have no choice," you say? Hmm, I hadn't thought of that. Well, in that case, it is my editorial duty to inform you that if you must die, you must strive to do it well. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. But only at your finest. How, you might ask, can you die well? That's a good question. Now that I think of it, the answer is lengthy. Let's start with one small and essential tip: Don't wait till the last minute. Procrastination is risky, and besides it takes a long time to die well in many cases. Start now. Everyday, without fail, for a few moments, contemplate your own death. Even if you are smart and young and busy and active with a hundred plans for tomorrow. Contemplate your own death. That's a morbid subject, you say!…

ARCHITECT Joel Sanders wants to reinvent the public restroom.

Sanders presented his vision in a recent interview with the architecture critic of The Philadelphia Inquirer. His brave, new designs eliminate old-fashioned and oppressive sex-segregation in lavatories.

Warning: Please approach Mr. Sanders’ words with a mirror. His frequent suggestions that human beings were psychologically sick because they believed in sex-segregated accommodations for this basic process reveal the sickness of a certain distressingly common state of mind —  a mind haughty enough to deem universal public opinion wrong.

From the interview:

I’m interested in bathrooms, and have been for the past 20 years, because [I want to make loads of money] they exemplify the way in which everyday common spaces reflect our cultural values. The bathroom is where social, political, psychological, technological, and legal forces all converge. Bathrooms tend to be the most expensive room per square foot [loads of money], yet we tend to take them for granted. The bathroom is just one way designed environments shape how the body interacts with space, yet architects often forget that what we’re supposed to be designing for the human body. It’s perhaps the most intimate architectural space we inhabit.

His plan?

We advocate a multi-stall solution that treats the public restroom as one single open space.  No longer will gender non-conforming people have to choose between two unacceptable options .

Instead, the gender conforming will have only one unacceptable option.

It’s a communal space based on the model of the agora, which encourages mixing.

Ancient Greece was one of the most sex-segregated societies in history. Nice trick though to conjure a traditionalist, relatively appealing society when you are planning to introduce some modern, soulless form of perversion. Rather than the agora, Mr. Sanders design is more reminiscent of the cow barn.

Animals relieve themselves with no concern for sex differences or hang-ups about modesty. In this age of mass herding, our restrooms will be even more cattle-like as well. (more…)

  MICHAEL WATSON writes at the Clifford Hugh Douglas Institute, which is dedicated to the promotion of the economic theory known as Social Credit: In our modern, fast-paced society that holds servile work and the fanatical pursuit of money to be the primary aim of our very existence, every adult man and woman must have a paid ‘job’ in order to survive and feel ‘dignified’ lest they suffer the curse of unemployment and the poverty and stigma associated with it, and this despite, or perhaps because of, the paltry and condescending ‘dole’ payments the state may hand out to them. We are not only expected to work, we are expected to compete and battle with one another to get that job or to obtain that promotion in order earn the money to pay those expensive bills and to purchase those precious goods that we need to survive and thrive. We must climb that corporate ladder or work that extra hour just to get those few extra dollars to pay off that mortgage or to make one’s marriage last just a little bit longer.      Everything else apart from that is an irrelevance. Leisure, that is free time in which activities that do not involve working in some sort of servile occupation that serves some financial or materialistic end, is deemed ‘useless’, a sign of childishness, unimportant and is even open to outright scorn or viewed as devilish idolatry by our…