James Rahner

tend to dislike bundled garlic bulbs. cloves tend to be much smaller for some reason. maybe i'm subconsciously very selective with the individual ones?

In Minneapolis, a Pattern of Misconduct Toward Protesters

"A protester detained, her bra removed and wedding ring cut off, and some of her clothes never returned..."

www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/u...

Lions Club water fountain
Cosmos, MN

Ed & ________
Laurium, MI

good gracious, man. lol.

Recreation hall
Plain Dealing, LA

if elon just hired an Inverse Jester (guy hired to listen to his jokes and pretend they're funny) we could solve every problem except how to keep the inverse jester from killing himself

Massie: "I would remind my Republican colleagues who are decided how to vote, Donald Trump can protect you in red districts right now by giving you an endorsement, but by 2030, he's not gonna be the president and you will have voted to protect pedophiles if you don't vote to release those files."

i just found out those teenagers also had horrible political opinions. now you can retroactively discover Sridhar's joke was funny.

but instead of saying them, why not join me in figuring out how I can do good and stay close to love ones while also not living in the US anymore...

yep. the venerable Michelin prince marco pierre white has two things that he constantly says, often one right after the other:
"perfection is lots of little things done well"
and
"it's through accepting imperfections that we achieve perfection"

ok we actually have to do something about religious illiteracy being ubiquitous and treated like a virtue—one too many "erm, I'm so glad the bishop randomly did a good thing for absolutely no reason whatsoever" posts for me today

Interesting times incoming for MAGA Catholics discovering that there will be no exception for Based African Priests and that parishes and theological faculties will suddenly be in freefall

“latest shooting of gazans seeking food”

"As a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza," Yao said, breaking off as the crowd cheered. The next day, Yao said she received a call from her principal, who said her statements had "caused harm" and told her she shouldn't come to school on Monday.

“As a commitment to truth and reconciliation, I must acknowledge colonial and genocidal atrocities today, including the massacre of more than 17,000 Palestinian children in Gaza.”

That’s what an Ottawa high school Valedictorian said to cheers.

She was told not to come to school the next day.

Trump says he wants "real end" to Iran's nuclear program, not just an Iran-Israel ceasefire Trump says he's not "looking for a ceasefire" in the Israel-Iran war, as he warns all of Tehran's residents to evacuate and says Iran should be "giving up" its nuclear program entirely.

Asked on Air Force One about that assessment from Gabbard, that Iran was not building a nuclear weapon, Mr. Trump told reporters: "I don't care what she said. I think they were very close to having them." www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-r...

this country is too dumb to breathe

it's a microcosm of ND at large: too much money, some degree of bubble syndrome, unwilling in all kinds of ways to take important stances--but a lot of good stuff and continuity with important things buried (somewhere) underneath it all, if you know where to look.

He was a complex guy, but most of his colleagues for the past twenty years have been normie Catholics floating about the Center for Ethics and Culture.

there's the MacIntyre who thinks businessmen should be killed, the MacIntyre who talks a lot about the virtues of Jane Austen and random fishing villages alike, the MacIntyre who thinks de Koninck was the most important Thomist of the 20th century, and then about 60 others.

i do think the eulogizing of MacIntyre as a Cool Marxian Aristotelian 😎, even if not as egregious a misreading as certain right-wing interpretations, is so reductive that it does eventually become caricature.

i heard he was ailing a few weeks ago....my guess is that it's accurate, but obviously good to be cautious...

"Is Alasdair MacIntyre Dead" - the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 12239 pages of heated debate,

RIP Alasdair Macintyre. Let's pray for him

i am developing your historic neighborhood.... pray i do not develop it further....

Dakota Johnson details shocking X-rated request made by Pedro Pascal Pedro Pascal had a shocking sidehustle suggestion for his Materialists co-star Dakota Johnson.

you really don't have to hand it to him.
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Charl Kleinhaus @charlkleinhaus Jews are untrustworthy and a dangerous group they are not Gods chosen like to believe they are . Where is the Temple that must be their concern leave us alone we all believe in the God of Abraham , Moses and Jacob ! I almost said something ugly … 🤐

WOW. The Trump admin said they will review social media and deny immigration benefits to people saying antisemitic claims. They're even trying to deport people with green cards on alleged claims of antisemitism.

Anyway, here's a tweet from an Afrikaner they flew here on Monday.

it would be like if a documentary called "norm macdonald presents: Abbas Kiarostami's Close-Up" became very popular.

ross douthat interviewing a lesswronger (and ND philosophy alum) for the NYT isn't necessarily great news, but it does confirm that my weird intellectual trajectory through life ended up being more au courant than my haters predicted.