By the time he had gotten to Philadelphia and presided over the smarmy testimonials and declarations by the likes of Mark Wahlberg and a variety of anonymous Catholic couples, I…
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No wonder there has been such a furor over the ACA—it perhaps presages a full single-payer government health care system—one lucrative area that the private sector would love to…
Ignem Mittere in Terram Like a rock (of ages) star, Pope Francis landed Washington today to rave previews. No question, this pope has charisma to spare after the last…
Whew! I actually wrote that. Where was the bolt of lightening? Actually, the great avenging deity might have understood that I wasn’t calling down his omnipotent wrath upon my country,…
My thoughts on life and work in America seem to have changed little since wrote this piece in the second year of the Obama administration. If anything, my disappointments are…
During my hiatus from DCJ as my websites have been undergoing an updating and facelift I actually considered whether I wanted to return to writing essays at all. A lot…
Even a contemptible idiot who says whatever passes beneath the orange wombat tail he wears on his head can stumble upon a correct statement. I am not referring to anything…
In Sicily, the Villa Romana del Casale rests in the commune of Piazza Armarina near Enna. Like Pompeii or Herculaneum, the villa, famous for its magnificent and well-preserved mosaics, is…
.President Obama got some great reviews for his eulogy for the Black victims of the Charleston massacre a couple of days ago. Segments went, as the saying goes these days,…
How my country achieved greatness through racism and brutality Yesterday, I heard on television a former American soccer player and now commentator on the FIFA Women’s World Cup remark that…