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- Erik Keilholtz self-reported favorite television show, on Summa Mama's blog. As Letterman said of Madonna, he 'loves to shock us'.
He hands me another rock, his brown eyes wide and says, "Daddy, what kind of rock is this?" And living where we do the answer is nearly always the same...I rejoice that the same answer is always new to him.
- Steven Riddle, excerpt of poem concerning his son Samuel
Since you can’t do or be anything without existing, it does not seem like a stretch to say that existence — i.e. reproduction — is the most important purpose of sex. Without existence, nothing else would matter. I guess in today’s overcrowded world, bringing in new people may not seem very important or even desirable. But we were not created for an overcrowded world. And even now, all eight billion of us who live here are doomed to die. There’s only one thing that will keep humanity going from now till Judgment Day, and it ain’t a good blow job.
- Camassia, who went on to write that "if God or evolution or whatever created a system where existence itself depends on a particular sex act, I’m taking that as a pretty big sign that that's the reason sex exists."
I know this because of the times someone confesses something like, 'I cheated on my boyfriend.' When you unpack this statement, you discover that the 'penitent' is confessing having had sex with someone other than the steady boyfriend with whom she regularly fornicates. She is not confessing fornication, mind you. And if you point out that she shouldn't be fornicating at all, you get a quizzical look. That's not the sin she's interested in confessing.
- Fr. Wilson on Amy's blog
Sometimes I really want to complain about my lot in life. Today, while making a call at a local government agency, the office was completely dead. Paid employees - making more than I do, no doubt - were sitting around reading the newspaper. How come I can never land jobs like this?
- Jeff C. of Hallowed Ground
To throw something else into the mix, consider what St. Thomas says. He asks, "Is it better to love a friend or an enemy?" The objection says "an enemy," because it's more difficult. But Thomas says it's better to love a friend, because a friend represents a greater good for us, and virtue or merit is measured not by its degree of difficulty, but by its goodness. The best thing is what's good, not necessarily what's the most difficult. After all, some sins are difficult to commit, like planning and carrying out a bank robbery. It takes a lot of effort. This is why I like St. Thomas--he's so balanced.
- Sr. Lorraine on Dispuations
It is with some reluctance that I venture to disagree with the formidable Elinor Dashwood; yet Apes rush in where fools fear to tread.
- Bob of "Trousered Ape" (life insurance paid up Bob?)
I [think] non-hugginess might be an Irish thing, at least sometimes. I have a lot of theories about how Irish teaching nuns influenced the personality of perhaps hundreds of thousands of Brooklynites who may not have been or strongly identified as Irish. I don't know -- I've seen something in my own family that I have wanted to chalk up to that Irish-Brooklyn thing, which is a weird combination of hard belligerence and deep sappiness, as demonstrated by overwrought special-occasion toast speeches and flowery poetry-and-extra-translucent-layer-equipped greeting cards from relatives you'd better watch yourself in front of at ordinary gatherings lest you knock that huge chip off their shoulder.
- Recovering Owl
I almost enjoy the rhetoric about "safe abortions." This is like describing a robbery where the person being robbed was killed, but the robber walked safely away.
- Jeff Miller of "Curt Jester"
The whimsical insight is not an oxymoron.
- Bill Luse of Apologia, in a particularly fine post.
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