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'The Final Reckoning' may nab a record Fri-Sun debut for a 'Mission: Impossible' flick, even if that's mostly because 'Dead Reckoning' foolishly opened on a Wednesday.
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“Heaven and earth pass away”
when they cease to exist
as separate zip codes.
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According to some folks on social media, educated people don't believe in 'fairy tales'
The data says: Someone with a masters degree is just as likely to believe there is life after death as someone who didn't finish high school.
ReLiGiOn iS tHe oPiAtE oF tHe mAsSeS, amirite?
I was honored to contribute to “Amipotence, volume 2,” a collection of essays that respond to and expand on Thomas Oord’s concept of God’s amipotence. Read my essay and Tom’s response:
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Nietzsche is on fire today…read em and weep (for our country). 🌈✌️
Recorded an hour and a half with Bob McGinn. He goes (very) hard in the paint on everything: his series, 40-yd dash, anonymous scouts, film-junkie discourse, MOCKS, the Wonderlic, 2025 QB class, your questions.
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The second trailer for second 'Fantastic Four' reboot played like a grimdark remake of the first reboot. This second trailer for the third reboot plays like a loose remake of first reboot's sequel.
Are any of you Substack creators able to create a new video post right now, or does it default to an audio post (asking for an audio file) when you try to do that?
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This is getting super nazi-like.
J.D. Vance, a Catholic, shares responsibility for mistakenly sending a man to a foreign jail where beatings, torture, malnutrition and murder are commonplace. Rather than correct this error, he chose to laugh and smile with the dictator who set up this gulag. And will do nothing to facilitate his return.
In Holy Week.
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Next up - Avalanche-Stars
Dallas has home-ice advantage, but aren’t the favorite
Why that is, after an opening series line of -110/-110
Why I’ll fade the move, since it’s clear why the market (as always) loooooves the Avs
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I’ve kissed a few girls…but this mashup is more my speed. :-)
If I’m Brandon Beane or Brian Gutekunst, I’m doing everything in my power to draft Texas wide receiver Matthew Golden.
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No, Craig Zeggler’s ‘Weapons' need not be a secret ‘Barbarians’ spin-off to be of optimum artistic and commercial value, and pretending as much does a disservice to the kind of original, non-franchise genre films we claim to want.
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All season long we’ve been reporting that the Rockets' next significant trade would not happen in-season (as proved true) and is unlikely to target Kevin Durant because the future Hall of Famer is not on the same timeline as Houston's promising young core.
With the 52-win Rockets soon to open a playoff series against Golden State, sources…
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You can show your birth certificate and social security card and have a judge recognize you as a US citizen and ICE will still keep you in jail.
It’s almost as if habeas corpus is now a dead letter in America. Take note. No one is safe.
I talk about my lived experience in dealing with my dad and what it has taught me about dealing with bullies.
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It’s the first of EIGHT Stanley Cup Playoff first round series previews!
New Jersey takes on Carolina in a series that was the first to be set.
Did the Devils season go down the drain with Jack Hughes’ injury?
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Do we know the truth about BLM? That and much more in today’s SITREP.
My wife and I attended Syracuse University in the late 1960s during the Vietnam War. I was draft age, making the war a constant cloud over me and all of my male classmates. It was also a time when social issues were coming to our attention daily. We were all ready to deal with them, as well as attend and work at our classes for our education and grades. The first Earth Day was a campus wide event filling our quad with displays of respect and solutions for our planet. Hendrix Chapel was both my nondenominational church and our near weekly national speakers forum. It was there that the student body turned out to hear a relatively unknown Bill Baird talk about women across the nation dying from coat hanger abortions. We already knew a some female students who had "back ally" abortions. One of my highschool classmates at SU had dropped out as a freshman when she got pregnant. Bill Baird made a tremendous impression on all of us on how brutal anti abortion laws were to women and families who for so many economic, health, age and family reasons could not carry a pregnancy to term and were seeking deadly and debilitating alternatives.
https://www.veteranfeministsofamerica.org/legacy/Bill_Baird.htm
Planned Parenthood became my wife's first healthcare provider when we got married. Their family planning and birth control assistance were attractive as primary and preventive care services. We have supported Planned Parenthood ever since.
When I was less than 9 years old, my mother who was pregnant gave me instructions not to let anyone take her to the Catholic hospital in our community because she feared they would save the baby over her life if there were a problem. She explained that she had three children at home who needed a mother.
New York State legalized first trimester abortions in 1970, a few years after Bill Baird's talk at Hendrix Chapel, and three years before Roe v. Wade.
My wife bought a first edition of "Our Bodies Ourselves" a women's paper back health guide and referred to it frequently. Women's health had been a mystery even to many women until the abortion rights movement that focused as much on women's health as "pro choice" with the idea that knowing your body and your health choices make you a more healthy, productive and happier person for a better society. Certainly the cruelty of most "Pro Life" measures and many of their advocates are not pro life.
Thank you for your comments. NYS displayed bold action in 1970. At that time, Planned Parenthood in Syracuse, under the leadership of of Ellen Fairchild, provided safe, affordable 1st trimester abortion procedures at their outpatient clinic on E GeneseevSt. The focus was on "planned" parenthood and providing quality reproductive health care and services to prevent unintended pregnancies. The clinic was also the primary source of health care for most of the women who received services. Compre…
East Genesee St PP is where we went. A former Victorian single family house with a large wrap around covered porch. The overall healthcare for my wife was our purpose.
Yes, PPC Syracuse believed in treating the "total package" and were committed to excellence in health care. Ellen Fairchild was a courageous and inspirational servant leader; her husband was a leader in palliative health care. They made the world a better place.
My mom experienced an ectopic pregnancy in 1956 when I was two years old. The doctors at the Catholic hospital my dad took her to would not perform surgery to remove the fallopian tube with the fetus inside. Had my mom’s best friend, who was a nurse, not intervened and convinced my dad to take her to a different hospital, she probably would have died.
I turned 18 in 1972. I voted for McGovern and so did my devoutly Catholic parents. Funny how a near death experience can clear the fog of what i…
I would go so far as to say that CHA, a major Catholic hospitals association, has an anti-abortion policy of forcing closed non-sectarian community hospitals so that they are the only game in town. They will construct a new hospital with more services, (or purchase the original hospital,) tell doctors they cannot have admission privileges if they also see patients at the community hospital, then slowly bring that hospital to its financial knees. I know this because I once worked at the communit…
Despite some occasional good works, the Catholic Church as an institution has been mostly malign ever since Constantine decided to make them the official church of the Roman Empire. The priests were out killing off the "wise women" in the villages who could help people in ways the frocked moron never could (thus becoming an alternative power, which couldn't be tolerated), calling them witches; when the wise woman was killed, so were her cats. And then the rats, without a predator, gained in pop…
David, that same Catholic Hospital you mentioned, is the same one that heavy handedly convinced the single daughter of a friend who was raped in their parking lot to not take a morning after pill and "its the Lord's way" if she were to become pregnant. The Hospital insisted on "counseling" her through her situation. She did become pregnant from that rape and was forced to give birth to a Down's Syndrome baby that she, though wouldn't trade has had to raise alone. Your Mother's fear of that Hospital was accurate.
"The Lord's way" has given misguided authority to too many for too long. As an ordained, graduate Seminarian I have long been angered by the abuse of Scripture to force specific ideologies upon people. All "in the name of Christ", no less!
My parents divorced when I was 6. My mom was Catholic, my dad Protestant. I alternated churches every other weekend, which left me with a lot of questions about contradictory dogma. In the early 60s, our next door neighbor who was Catholic, nearly died delivering her second child. Her doctor said complications made it likely that having a third child would kill her and recommended using birth control. She asked permission from the parish priest, who told her she couldn’t have communion if she …
Not to mention the Catholic church's history of mishandling the molestation of children by priests... Oh damn, and I said not to mention that whole episode of its history. I will say that Catholic charities do an incredible job in so many ways with refugees and the poor, but they also take in an awful lot of money that is spent very wastefully as well.
Well, David. You just explained some more history. Thank you to you and your partner’s and your mom’s stories. That’s what makes history.
Christine, your comment brought to mind the fact that for many things, like the anti-vaxxers against measles/mumps vaccine, who say, "Nobody gets/dies from measles any more", neglect to admit that's because the vaccines were so effective at eradicating it. Same with small pox, polio, etc. And same with the horrors of back-alley abortions. Young women today can't know the terror many women felt (and not just women who had sex 'outside of marriage'), when they were confronted with a pregnancy …
Thank you for sharing this. Before my time, the young woman who would become my mom barely survived a coerced back ally coat hanger abortion. Beginning with and because of that, this Catholic is an unapologetic Pro Choice advocate who, like you, finds the Pro Life movement to be disingenuous.
With much appreciation for sharing your wife's and your education concerning women's health, reproduction issues and abortion, included the horrors that illegal abortion brought to woman and there families -- that includes death.
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