I get it about Roy Moore

I get it, if he’d won he would have been a saddle sore on the GOP’s rear end for every day he was in the Senate.

But I couldn’t help hoping last night, when it looked like Jones won, that someone would find a bag of uncounted votes in the trunk of a car, that would put Roy Moore over the top.  Just for the Uber Irony Factor.

Denial, Anger, Bargaining, Depression

Those are considered the first four stages of grief.

I have two liberal female friends, both excellent artists – one in theater, one in visual arts – who have for nine months been appalled, aggrieved, furious, at the election of Donald Trump. I never bring up politics with them because they are good-hearted people and I don’t like to argue.

Friday one called to talk about her theater season, but she soon veered into telling me how difficult it has been for her to direct her plays lately, it’s like she has a mental block; she’s tired and depressed. She described a scene in one of her plays that takes place in a jungle, then asked, in a tiny, pleading, worn voice, how can anyone deny that there’s global … Continue reading

It’s a BLM Day in the Neighborhood

Just in case you missed it, which would not be hard to do because it was not widely reported, last week a dozen or so Philadelphia BLMs came to the quiet street on which a Philadelphia cop lives with his family. The cop is on administrative leave pending an investigation into his participation in a shooting death of a black man in June. For a couple hours the BLMs, with a bullhorn, shouted threats and obscenities, ignoring the fact that it was a street of families and kids. A string of police officers instantly materialized and separated the thugs from the crowd of Philly-attitude parents who quickly came out to ‘discuss’ things with them.

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Little Sisters of the Poor can sleep a little sounder

 

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Melania has disclosed that she is a practicing Catholic.

She prayed in the chapel at Bambino Gesu Children’s Hospital during their visit to Rome, after visiting with the children there. She and the President of course also met with the Pope, who blessed a rosary for her.

I am very, very happy that our First Lady is a woman of faith. I think religious liberty will be protected under this administration, and I think the Little Sisters are probably singing prayers of joyful thanks today.

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