“These men…are devils and the wrath of God is upon them…”

Those words were written in 1957 in a letter from Father Gerald Fitzgerald to the Archbishop of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Edwin V. Byrne. The National Catholic Reporter uncovered documents containing letters that Fitzgerald wrote to Bishops, Archbishops, and even the Pope, warning that priests who sexually abused children could not be rehabilitated. Fr. Gerald [...]

The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest

The Museum of Hoaxes lists the top 100 April Fools jokes of all time.  Here’s their number one: 1957: The respected BBC news show Panorama announced that thanks to a very mild winter and the virtual elimination of the dreaded spaghetti weevil, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with [...]

Suicide or Self-defense?

It’s long been known that attacking Iran is a neoconservative wet-dream.  Many people believe that Dick Cheney was the “senior Bush administration official” who shortly after the invasion of Iraq uttered the statement “Anyone can go to Baghdad; real men go to Tehran” and in February 2007 Ewen MacAskill of The Guardian reported that: Neo-conservatives, [...]

Wednesday: Obama puts a gun to the UAW’s head

I am unabashedly pro-union. Yeah, I know that unions are not free from corruption and sometimes their demands can seem ridculous and anachronistic.  But I would defend them to the death.  Why? They brought us the weekend. Let’s just think back to all of the laborers who protested and went on strike and sometimes risked [...]