I WILL give five dollars to any reader who can find a single instance of a feminist complaining about the fact that Satan is always referred to as male. Isn’t it strange and perplexing that feminists worry about the lower numbers of women at the top — among CEO’s and other muckety-mucks — but are silent when it comes to the relatively low numbers of women in the working trades and even much lower, among criminals and drunks who live on the streets? I have never encountered a feminist who was upset that there are not more women mowing lawns, fixing sewer lines or working as “tree surgeons.” Hmm, I wonder why. Similarly, endless verbal indignation has been spawned by the terrible injustice of referring to God with masculine pronouns. Liturgical texts have been thoroughly revised to deal with this inequity. Worshippers are expected to use clumsy grammatical maneuvers to avoid references that are masculine. We are supposed to imagine God as an androgynous force or, better yet, as a woman, which would only be fair.

But no one — at least no one outside the inner circles of demon worship — suggests that Satan should be a she. It does seem like a feminist issue. It does seem unfair to women, doesn’t it, that such a powerful entity is imagined to be male?

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PERHAPS others have picked up on the intense irony of Harvard President Drew Faust’s bargain with the devil. Committed to “free expression” at all costs, she gave the okay for a Black Mass, or a “reenactment of a Black Mass,” to be sponsored by the adult school adjunct of the university. The Satanic Temple, a cult that is also sponsoring a monument to the devil outside the Oklahoma State building, apparently infiltrated the citadel of tolerance and planned the event at a Harvard bar. It reportedly has now been canceled because the bar, not the university, backed out. (more…)

HENRY McCULLOCH writes:

A sadly very confused Austrian man, Tom Neuwirth, has won the Eurovision Song Contest.  For those unfamiliar with the ways of postmodern Europe (now very loosely interpreted: Azerbaijan sends contestants), the Eurovision Song Contest is a freak show in which the post-nations of post-Europe send contestants to vie for their nation’s honor by singing pop songs that are almost unimaginably bad.  The worst — to my ears, not the judges’ — is usually awarded first prize.   (more…)

SHERYL SANDBERG, Facebook chief operating officer and corporate feminist mega-celebrity who has made more than a billion dollars on the social networking company and her best-selling campaign to portray the overwhelmingly masculine world of Internet technology as glamorous and amenable to female ambition, has pledged to join with other billionaires and give away half her earnings to charity.

Many of the recent news reports about Sandberg’s pledge refer to her as a “self-made” billionaire. No one is entirely self-made (Sandberg went to Harvard and worked in the Treasury Department under Bill Clinton). The idea that a person is “self-made” is just plain absurd, but among the people who “made” Sandberg is her mother, who gave up her own career ambitions in her early twenties to focus on her children and home. This irony is generally lost on journalists who hyperventilate over Sandberg’s success.

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  HERE'S another article by Fr. Anthony Cekada that nicely simplifies the argument for sedevacantism -- the position that Jorge Bergoglio cannot possibly be the legitimate pope of the Catholic Church. It's all quite elementary, gentle reader. Jorge Bergoglio was not Catholic when he was elected "pope." If this man is pope then I am the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. Why is this such a difficult point? It is possible to honor the papacy while declaring the Argentinian Bomber an impostor. But it is not possible to honor the papacy while resisting almost every word that comes out of his mouth, as well as his "infallible" canonizations of anti-saints, and recognizing him as pope. You can't have your cake and eat it.

THE Republicans have offered to make it easier for immigrants to win legal status if Democrats will make it easier for immigrants to win legal status. Our two-party system is a miracle of compromise.

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  WITH the news that Paul VI, a suspected homosexual who destroyed the Catholic Mass and gutted Church traditions, is to be beatified in October, the fact that the Vatican II sect is anything but the Catholic Church becomes even more strikingly apparent. See the report at Novus Ordo Watch.

WIM GROMMEN writes:

This article of mine may be of interest to you and your readers.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average Is A Hoax

Wim Grommen

The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) Index is the only stock market index that covers both the second and the third industrial revolution. Calculating share indexes such as the Dow Jones Industrial Average and showing this index in a historical graph is a useful way to show which phase the industrial revolution is in. Changes in the DJIA shares basket, changes in the formula and stock splits during the take-off phase and acceleration phase of industrial revolutions are perfect transition-indicators. The similarities of these indicators during the last two revolutions are fascinating, but also a reason for concern. In fact the graph of the DJIA is a classic example of fictional truth, a hoax.

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  HE'S been convicted of murder and has two wives. He runs a highly successful and growing chain of South Indian fast food restaurants called Saravana Bhavan, which is now expanding in the U.S., with current locations in New York, New Jersey, California and Texas. And he is the revered patriarch of  8,000 employees in India and of his own family, which includes his son P. Shiva Kumar, who was arrested on a charge of forging documents to smuggle people into the U.S. in 2008. This article by Rollo Romig in The New York Times is a fascinating glimpse into the empire of  P. Rajagopal and the culture that nurtured it, a culture that is now an integral part of multicultural America.

According to New York Times science writer Nicholas Wade, race is not a social construct after all. Jared Taylor, of American Renaissance, reviews Wade’s new book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race, and Human History here. Taylor writes:

Any assault on dogma is welcome and laudable, and Mr. Wade will certainly take a beating for it. However, there is much waffling in this book, which was no doubt meant to ward off beatings but that, at least to undeceived readers, rings of timidity.

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    THE Center for Bioethics and Culture has made three excellent films about the fertility industry, including Breeders and Eggsploitation. The third, Anonymous Father's Day, is about the children of anonymous sperm donors and their longing to know their fathers. You can watch it on demand for $5.99.

SAM writes:

This article by Junot Diaz was recently published in The New Yorker, which is supposed to be a highbrow magazine and a cultural bellwether. The article is a symptom of how rapidly the culture is coming apart, of how our flagship institutions are collapsing right in front of our eyes as a consequence of egalitarianism. I was never a fan of The New Yorker, but I could not have imagined something like this being published even five years ago.

 The article is poorly written, poorly reasoned, and laden with cheap vulgarity and street slang. I don’t recommend that anyone waste their time reading it, so here is a representative sampling of Diaz’s elegant prose just in case anyone wonders just how bad the article might be:

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STEVE DOWTY writes:

It’s an indication of how far Western civilization has fallen that the phrase “divorced gay bishop” not only shows up in a Google search, but elicits no surprise, provokes no outrage, and seems oddly comforting to so many people. The “bishop” involved himself stated that he takes comfort in the fact that he and his “husband” faced the same problems any married couple face…and his abject failure to behave in a manner even distantly approximating decent makes him “jes’ folks,” as good as you and me and even better for being less judgmental. The fact that millions of people accept such claptrap without batting an eye is utterly terrifying.

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A READER writes:

I just got my notice to enroll for health care benefits from my employer, Aerotek. My weekly premium went from $29 a week to $116 a week. How do I afford a $6,000 annual health care bill when I only take home $24,000? It’s like I am being asked to pay for a second apartment but never live in it.

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BUCK writes:

The reaction to the Sterling Affair may be the most obscene and hypocritical, one-man, race-baiting hate fest of our day. Mr. Sterling is the new white face of evil. Sounds to me as if, in the particular instance, the “old fool” was haplessly trying to protect his misplaced manhood, which at his age should be based on something important. He has been paying out huge sums of money for years in order to balance the “books” on his character. The hypocrisy of the many who have benefited from his business savvy – taken his money – is to me, the obscenity. The mainstream revelations of this pathetic “old fool’s” weakness and lack of character is cringe worthy, but the punishment being meted out by a long list of appeasers and blood suckers, in this obscene full court press is Carthaginian. Mr. Sterling has been a well-known quantity for decades. It seems to me that the intensity of this opportunist outrage is a measure of the mix of hypocrisy, complicity and guilt of many who served themselves well in his sphere. They epitomize the unprincipled exception. Race-baiting is reaching into the stratosphere. It seems to be defying gravity.

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ALAN writes:

May I add the following regarding the list of mass transit accidents in my previous post?

It is a hallmark of cool, sophisticated Americans to boast about their talent for “multi-tasking,” i.e., their alleged ability to do two or more things at once.  At least two and possibly three of those transit accidents were caused by people engaged in “multi-tasking:”  Sending text messages or chattering at the same time they were being paid to operate a bus or train.

It is less significant that some people will do those things than that public transportation agencies or companies will permit them to do them. This, of course, is not a technical or scientific problem.  It is a moral problem, and what is obviously lacking is the will to enforce even minimal rules of common sense, safety, and accountability.  This is yet another sparkling example of the collapse of authority and hatred of responsibility whose consequences we see around us wherever we look.

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YOU probably thought it not possible for anyone to write another page-turner about why women are less professionally successful than men  — and what they can do about it. But the subject is a bottomless well to the media’s purveyors of nonsense, who want nothing more than to make the progressive enslavement of women to money and power seem cool and exciting. Two powerful (and very confident) journalists now explain their theory that women achieve less success than men in the professional world, not because women have other important things to do, not because women are (thankfully) less competitive than men, not because women have duties to their families, not because they don’t particularly want to climb to the top, but because — ta-da! — they lack confidence. Women’s leadership conferences, the dramatic reallocation of public resources to boost feminist equality, non-stop celebration of female achievements and pervasive, bare-breasted Amazons with bulging biceps might seem to you, dear deluded reader, to be expressions of female confidence, but Katty Kay and Claire Shipman say women are actually suffering from poor self-esteem. Kay and Shipman wish that men were less successful. They want men to do worse than women. They want more for women and less for men. For them, life is a grade-school competition between the sexes and women should be confident enough to be the Super-Dooper Number One Winners.

I agree with Katty and Claire that women are suffering from a lack of confidence. Here is my advice: Be confident. Be confident enough to resist the allures of these feminist hucksters. Be confident enough to separate yourself from friends who believe in this superb nonsense. Be confident enough to be a nobody from nowhere. Be confident enough to assert that ambition is ever an ugly quality. Be confident enough to step away from the herd and be alone. Be confident and self-assured enough to say that all this materialistic play for power is utterly beneath you.

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WE live in a world of staggering deceptions. While the crude and offensive millionaire Donald Sterling, owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, one of many basketball teams which have elevated individual blacks to stardom and wealth, receives national condemnation and lifelong ostracism for stating that he did not want his crude girlfriend to associate with black people, proving that America is perfectly capable of outrage and believes fanatically in the moral superiority of non-whites, blacks who murder whites are sent to air-conditioned hotels for respite with almost no public indignation over their crimes. One of the latest victims is Judy Salamon, who was executed on the streets of East Oakland while on a neighborhood watch patrol. Salamon took action against crime in her neighborhood and for this she lost her life.

The idiocy of charging Sterling with racism is exposed by simply looking at photos of the Clippers.

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