FOLLOWING an article in The New York Times about the relatively small number of women engineers, a commenter writes: Is this a solution looking for a problem? Certainly there should be no roadblocks to women choosing any line of work they desire. But do we need more female engineers for the sake of having more female engineers? Why not put an editorial about how most garbage collectors are male and what can be done about it.

THE Daily Mail has photos of the events today in Baltimore, where 15 police officers have reportedly been injured and a national state of emergency has been declared due to looting and rioting in response to the death of a 25-year-old black man, who was denied proper medical attention in police custody. “Protesters” can be seen throwing rocks at a commuter bus, smashing police cars and slashing firehoses being used to put out a fire. Bear in mind that much of this is being done in front of television and news cameras. The family of Freddie Gray has publicly pleaded for the rioting to stop and many other blacks have condemned it, while Jesse Jackson, in his speech at Gray’s funeral, incited rage and envy among the city’s black population, thereby essentially supporting the rioters. One of the leaders of the rioters is Malik Shabazz, former chairman of the New Black Panther Party, reports WND.

A commenter at The Baltimore Sun writes: (more…)

THERE would almost certainly be many more Anglo-Saxons in the world and the British welfare state would probably not exist, as the 800 monasteries and other charitable institutions destroyed during the “Reformation” might still be functioning. Dominic Selwood looks briefly at what Catholic England might look like today. When England broke with Rome, the English broke with each other as well.

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EMMA SULKOWICZ, the famous “mattress girl,” used Columbia University, the international media, and the federal government, to bully and defame a fellow student with whom she had engaged in sordid encounters and who was no longer interested in her, according to a lawsuit against the university filed by the student, Paul Nungesser, who was publicly accused of rape. [WARNING: The text of the lawsuit is extremely pornographic. I only recommend you read it if you are thinking of sending your son or daughter to the Ivy League. Perhaps this will dissuade you or reassure you if your child will never end up at this sort of high-priced collegiate gutter. The Ivy League is a gutter. Poetry, love, romance — all dead at the Ivy League.] If the documented e-mails are authentic, the repeated public charges that Sulkowicz was raped, which were publicly defended by her physician parents, constituted an extraordinary witch hunt, a hoax and a case of widespread journalistic malfeasance and orchestrated mass revenge. (more…)

DOGS can be such wonderful and irreplaceable companions.With all their canine charms and loyalty, they fill some of the loneliness of the modern world and make everyday life so much more delightful. But there is a weird blurring of the distinction between the animal world and the human today. Dogs have become way too important. It’s creepy.

Reporting on yet another liturgical abomination — a “Catholic” funeral for a dog in Belgium — Novus Ordo Watch writes: (more…)

BOTH Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man who died in police custody in Baltimore last week, prompting angry protests this weekend, and Walter Scott, who was shot to death in South Carolina by Officer Michael Slager, would probably be alive today if they had not fled from the police. They set in motion the events that led to their deaths. Fleeing the police is practically an admission of guilt.

That’s not to say the officers who arrested Gray acted properly or that Gray shouldn’t have received medical treatment immediately when it was clear that he was injured or that he should even have been pursued. (It seems, judging from the reports so far, that the police mistreated him and he should have been rushed to the hospital right away.) That’s also not to say Slager should have shot Scott. But police in violent cities like Baltimore can’t possibly protect blacks from other blacks, who are their primary victimizers, unless their authority is recognized and respected.

Here is a shocking video of a Russian journalist robbed during the protests.

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Sexual passion is an especially effective form of social control because it is so internalized by the fornicator that he feels that in defending his passions he is defending his very self. The government, then, that incites and protects the gratification of these passions will gain a hold over its citizens in a way more deep-seated than any other. --- E. Michael Jones, author of Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control

IN light of the feminist poison that continues to come from the Vatican II Church, it’s worth recalling Pope Pius XII’s beautiful words in 1942 on the role of women in the home. The Holy Father speaks of ideals that many of us fall short of, but that deserve our deepest admiration:

The mother is the sun of the family. She is its sun by her spirit of generosity and sacrifice, by her constant readiness, vigilance, delicacy and tact in all that touches the happiness of her husband and her children; she radiates light and warmth. …  (more…)

ALAN writes:

In response to your excellent remarks about the imbecility called “gay marriage,” Bill R. wrote that Americans now live under “a tyranny that grows harder by the day.”  I agree essentially with that statement.  But may I suggest that that tyranny was not forcibly imposed on the American people by a monster government; it was the American people who made their government into a monster by surrendering more and more power to it over a span of years, partly by intent but largely by default. (more…)

Hymn: Te, Joseph, celebrent

O Joseph, heavenly hosts thy worthiness proclaim,
And Christendom conspires to celebrate thy fame,
Thou who in purest bonds wert to the Virgin bound;
How glorious is thy name renowned.

Thou, when thou didst behold thy Spouse about to bear,
Wert sore oppressed with doubt, wert filled with wondering care;
At length the Angel’s word thy anxious heart relieved:
She by the spirit hath conceived. (more…)

GUILAIN writes:

I agree with the following statement you wrote:

Men and women are too interdependent for one to fall without the other.

That is so true that most men still intensely desire women. If men had not fallen with women, they would not seek their approbation; they would realize it has no value.

Some time ago, when I roamed the manosphere, I was struck by the fact that many criticisms of modern women could be directed at modern men as well. Among the men writing or commenting on those “red pill” websites, no one seemed to notice this fact.  (more…)

FROM an article at Tradition, Family and Property:

It could be argued that video gaming is simply a pastime, a way to combat boredom.  But what is the point of engaging in a pastime that has no palpable goal, no real accomplishment and no deeper meaning?   Since the purpose of gaming is undefined, players often find themselves compelled to play more and more.

According to the Boy Genius Report, “there are currently over 34 million core gamers in the United States, and they are playing video games for an average of 22 hours every week.”2 (more…)