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2014-11-16T17:35:38-04:00

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TV Helped Change the Country’s View of LGBT Life

Last updated on: November 16, 2014 at 5:35 pm By David Mills

“As television has long been a pivotal platform for addressing controversial issues, it has engendered and reflected the strides made towards LGBT equality,” begins a Paley Center press release for their 2014 gala “celebrating television’s impact on LGBT equality,” says the announcement on their website. The president and ceo of the Paley Center, Maureen Reddy, told Xfinity’s tv blog that For over six decades, television’s depictions of the LGBT community have helped to change the country’s perceptions and increase its... Read more

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2014-11-11T19:06:57-04:00

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Please Unfriend Him

Last updated on: November 11, 2014 at 7:06 pm By David Mills

Cheers for Father Larry Richards, who wrote on his Facebook page in October: If you are one of those who will not love and respect our Holy Father because he does not think like you please unfriend yourself from my page. I do not want to continue to read the slander of people who call themselves Catholic and spit on the Chair of Peter. As the saints have said ‘Where there is Peter there is the Church.’ You do not have to... Read more

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2014-11-11T19:53:53-04:00

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The Grave Not Taken

Last updated on: November 11, 2014 at 7:53 pm By David Mills

Something I wrote a few years ago, of which I was reminded by the essay “The Watcher” I posted about yesterday. The young woman wanted to empty her savings account — money needed for college and saved over a year of nannying demanding and ill-behaved children — to help bury her grandfather, who had left instructions that he was to be cremated. This was characteristic of him: to be buried as he had lived, no fuss, no bother, no public... Read more

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2014-11-11T19:53:20-04:00

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Dying Feels Like Abandonment

Last updated on: November 11, 2014 at 7:53 pm By David Mills

A moving, lovely essay about aging, loss, and death by Bonnie Friedman, The Watcher, subtitled “What You Leave Behind When It’s Time To Move On.” The “becoming a real person” theme with which she ends I find less interesting, though some readers may identify with it. I liked the stories she tells and the insights she draws from them. Like this, about her sister Anita, who died at 51 of MS. I’ve come to understand that dying feels like abandonment.... Read more

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2014-11-10T21:55:05-04:00

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The Perils of Reading, or Misreading

Last updated on: November 10, 2014 at 9:55 pm By David Mills

From The New Republic‘s story on the once infamous fiction-writer Steven Glass: “Steve Glass now lives in Venice Beach with his longtime girlfriend, Julie Hilden, a dog, two cats, and a rotating cast of foster pets. (The couple are also virgins.)” The last word was, alas, “vegans.” The story, by one of the colleagues Glass betrayed, is fascinating. Read more

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2014-11-12T10:27:31-04:00

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Christianity Is For Losers

Last updated on: November 12, 2014 at 10:27 am By David Mills

My latest column for Aleteia. It begins: “I wouldn’t go to church with my plumber.” The speaker, dressed in a dark two-piece suit, with the aggressive pin-stripes favored by some businessmen, went to a traditionalist Episcopal parish out on Long Island where the average income sails far over the average American’s. I laughed, because I’d heard that line said as part of a joke, and then saw that he was serious. It was an awkward moment. I understand snobbery. Everyone... Read more

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2014-11-10T21:16:44-04:00

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Eat Civilized

Last updated on: November 10, 2014 at 9:16 pm By David Mills

In Mother Jones, Michael Pollan explains What’s Wrong With the Paleo Diet. He argues, essentially, that civilizations cook for good reason. For example, the fourth of his five points (this is the reporter’s summary, not Pollan writing): 4. Raw food is for the birds (too much of it, anyway). There’s paleo, and then there’s the raw diet. Folks who eat raw tout the health benefits of the approach, saying that they’re accessing the full, complete nutrients available because they’re not heating, and thus... Read more

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2014-11-10T21:11:55-04:00

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Just Don’t Mention the Church to Converts

Last updated on: November 10, 2014 at 9:11 pm By David Mills

An accurate list of Ten Things Not to Say to a Convert, by Abby Johnson. This one, for example: “Isn’t sex just so much better as a Catholic???” said with much enthusiasm Years ago I head that one. From women. And this one: “Life is so much better as a Catholic.” About which Johnson writes: Okay, let’s try not go all “prosperity gospel” on new Catholics. Life is great as a Catholic. I can receive the real Body and Blood of... Read more

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2014-11-11T11:52:42-04:00

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Virtue Pays Also

Last updated on: November 11, 2014 at 11:52 am By David Mills

The philosopher Rachel Lu responds to my Promiscuity Pays with an article on the blessings of her life and the need for virtue to rightly enjoy those blessings. After describing an enjoyable day with her family, she writes in The Virtuous Life Is the Good Life: I marvel that, in the world as we now know it, this can be a fairly normal day, in the life of a fairly normal person. I don’t think I’m too naïve about the modern... Read more

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2014-11-10T21:06:33-04:00

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It’s a Funny Old World 13

Last updated on: November 10, 2014 at 9:06 pm By David Mills

Clearly bats, but entertaining so: the people who believe that another civilization exists under the surface of the earth, usually reached by holes at one or the other of the poles. It has a long if not exactly glorious history, including the Astronomer Royal Edmond Halley (the comet guy). One modern proponent is a Rodney M. Cluff, who put his money where his mouth is: So convinced was Cluff that, in 1981, he flew his wife and five children from New Mexico to... Read more

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