You’re better than this question, my friend.

If Penn State had a policy that all its managers had to be celibate, they would be because it’s the celibacy that drives people to rape kids, it damned sure would.

Well, I thought his “Through the Wire” rap was crap.

That’s a quality title, there, Master Timothy.

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It’s probably as banal and pedestrian as money, my friend.

O Canada!

I feel for the kid, when he came to they probably asked him his name, to which his likely reply was, “Fuck. It’s still Cade.”

The deeper, particularly Catholic, issue here is that the unnatural celibacy (*NOT* Divinely ordained) in Catholic doctrine is too difficult for all but the strongest human beings to endure without cracking at the seams.

In 2018, this is simply academic as it is verifiable by public information.

No doubt, PV, but when practiced from the heart with the intention of truly becoming consumed with love (thereby becoming purified of vice), one of the abilities practicing religion develops on the long, difficult slog beyond our ego is that of discernment (Furqan in Arabic) and the mind that wields it, for the mind…

Yeah, but my son and I still break it out while we’re watching games :-)

Thank you for your kind words, but I would say that “we should treat modern religions as the businesses that they are.”

From Billy Joel’s “The Stranger”, may I present “Just the Way You Are”.

It’s your mouse button; it used to happen to me, in triplicate sometimes!

My parents are still Catholic and they just remarked to my wife that our kids actually like hanging out with them, as opposed to those of my sister (who is still Catholic) who they haven’t hung out with since Christmas.

No doubt. That’s why I didn’t mention it ;-)

I have never had hatred in my heart, my friend.

Actually, I am, when I’m not being serious.

People forget that it was Mark Jackson’s excellent defensive teachings that Steve Kerr, himself, stated were an invaluable part of the success he enjoyed with the Warriors immediately upon his arrival there.