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2015-03-13T15:03:58-06:00

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Al Qaeda to Iran: Darn Tootin’ We Done It!

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 3:03 pm By Max Lindenman

Remember that scene in A Few Good Men, where Colonel Jessup, his pride having conquerd his instinct for self-preservation, screams, “YOU’RE DAMN RIGHT I ORDERED A CODE RED ON [WHATEVER THAT KID’S NAME WAS]”? Well, it looks like Al-Qaeda has reached that point, with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the role of Lieutenant Kaffee. In response to Ahmadinejad’s address to the U.N., in which he called the September 11th attacks “mysterious,” and urged investigation into “unknown elements involved,” an official... Read more

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Pretty As A Picture

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 3:03 pm By Max Lindenman

During my last miserable year of grad school, I found occasion to court the woman who had, in my last year as an undergrad, taught the German class I took as an elective. Though she’d lived most of her life in the Valley, she looked the part of Biergarten waitress, at least judging by how beer advertisements depict such people. Blonde, with a complexion Russians call “blood and milk, she was also slightly zaftig. To switch countries once again, if... Read more

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Phoenix Goes Dry; I Weep

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 3:03 pm By Max Lindenman

In a Bill Mauldin cartoon that ran in Stars and Stripes during World War Two, two officers are standing on a peak somewhere in the Apennines or Vosges, gazing at a breathtaking sunset. Turning toward the other, one asks, “Beautiful view! Is there one for enlisted men?” This image, I’m afraid, is exactly what comes to mind when I consider the news that, beginning at some nearby but unspecified date, the Diocese of Phoenix will distribute the Precious Blood to... Read more

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The Addict Saint

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 3:03 pm By Max Lindenman

When I taught ESOL in China, the first thing that struck me was the English first names the students had assigned themselves for the purposes of the class. They’d chosen them some years ago, when they first began studying, and were already quite attached to them. I can only assume they were inspired by their British textbooks, published in the 1960s, and apparently edited by scholars who’d been born in the reign of King Edward VII. Nothing else could explain... Read more

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The Meanest Jesus Ever

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 3:03 pm By Max Lindenman

In her short story “Parker’s Back,” Flannery O’Connor describes the reaction of a tattoo aficionado to an image of Jesus that confounds all of his expectations. The ink lover, one O.E. Parker, employed as a farmhand since his bad-conduct discharge from the U.S. Navy and unhappily married to the dour Sarah Ruth Cates, has taken it into his head to cover his back with an image of the Lord. Accordingly, he appears in the studio of his favorite artist, requests... Read more

2015-03-13T15:04:00-06:00

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Ask; They’ll Tell

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 3:04 pm By Max Lindenman

I don’t imagine there will be much rejoicing in these quarters over the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, which went into effect at 12:01 this morning. I had planned, by way of offering consolation, to blog on the career of Prince Eugene of Savoy-Carignan, whose armies won back a big share of Eastern Europe from the Turks, and a good-sized slice of Western Europe from the French. I’d always had the idea he was gay, but when I checked,... Read more

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Gamers Save World from AIDS

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 3:04 pm By Max Lindenman

That’s a slight exaggeration. Okay, it’s a huge exaggeration. Still, it contains a solid grain of truth. University of Washington video game enthusiasts have succeeded in mapping the structure of the monomeric protease enzyme, which Yahoo! News calls “a cutting agent in the complex molecular tailoring of retroviruses, a family that includes HIV”: Figuring out the structure of proteins is vital for understanding the causes of many diseases and developing drugs to block them. But a microscope gives only a... Read more

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Deaths the Right Will Never Cheer

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 3:04 pm By Max Lindenman

Lately, GOP debate crowds have earned the reputation of being bloodthirstier than any mob since Constantine declared that Christians were for loving, not for feeding to wild animals. They erupted into cheers when Brian Williams reminded Rick Perry of the 234 prisoners he’d executed during his tenure as governor of Texas. When Wolf Blitzer presented Ron Paul with a hypothetical situation — that a 30-year-old man who, having knowingly declined to buy health insurance, becomes deathly ill — and asked... Read more

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2015-03-13T15:04:01-06:00

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When Does Fundraising Become a Shakedown? — UPDATED!

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 3:04 pm By Max Lindenman

Since yesterday, when news first broke of the conflict between Bishop Zurek of Amarillo and Priests for Life Head Fr. Frank Pavone, a number of readers have written critically of PFL’s funraising campaigns. On the Anchoress blog, one reader complains that her mailbox has been “flooded” with PFL appeals. Another provides numbers: “2-3 per week,” and rates paper and postage “a waste of time.” Today, in a stroke of perfect timing, a friend of Deacon Greg Kandra received a direct-mail... Read more

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A Lesson from Fr. Pavone: How to Behave on the Carpet

Last updated on: March 13, 2015 at 3:04 pm By Max Lindenman

When I saw, on the Anchoress Blog, that Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life had been suspended from priestly ministry outside his diocese, my knee jerked right up. I’ll admit it: I thought: “Here we go again, another diva.” In my defense, the letter published by Bishop Zurek of Amarillo seems calculated, at least in part, to steer a reader toward that conclusion. Without making any specific allegations, the bishop expresses “deep concerns regarding [Pavone’s] stewardship of the finances... Read more

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