I have spent many years trying to improve my character. I’ll not boast of my project being largely successful—but at the least, I always ask myself if a person that I revile has ever demonstrated any redeeming qualities. I want to be charitable, as I would pray that others would see past my frailties.

For our consideration: The Seven Deadly Sins, or Vices, if you prefer, include Envy, but not Jealousy. So if Jealousy, which the writer seems to aver is as sinful in rank, from what admixture of sins does Jealously derive? The other six sins propounded by the Ancients are Sloth, Greed, Lust, Gluttony, Pride and Wrath.…

Counterpoint: whatever else one may do when making pizza, it should not be cooked at a mere 400 degrees.

“Quashed.”

I probably should have said “Gesundheit” instead. Please forgive me.

Gerolsteiner is the best of all sparkling waters. You have already informed your breathless readers about its high mineral content. But why did you withhold the thrilling, fascinating fact that it percolates up from some sort of frightful crevasse in Germany, deep as the Marianas Trench and dark as a sensory…

Like so many other professional Christians, he couldn’t find Jesus even if given a flashlight and a pack of hunting dogs.

Here’s a very old joke that speaks to your first proposition:

I have a long memory.

Kat Mandoo

I finally (in the main) quit watching the panel shows on MSNBC for many reasons, great and small. Joe Scarborough’s quotidian need to remind us that he was in Congress back when hair metal bands still held sway. Chris Matthews blurring through his script at the pace of a tobacco auctioneer. Bill Kristol popping up…

Now let us remember that R. Crumb found Bugs to be sexually attractive.

Interestingly, that SC decision was specifically limited such that it could never have progeny, i.e. it could never receive the deference that 99.9% of all appeals court decisions do, which is known as the doctrine of stare decisis. To analogize, it’s the equivalent of vaporware. It’s a legal nullity—cannot be cited…

 Pls don’t say “really unique.” Thank you.

Wherever double-knits are worn

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^{How do I find it? Didn’t know there was such a thing .}

The 3 year apprenticeship is on the books in my jurisdiction (WA) as well. And here’s some commentary.

Here’s a modest proposal: let’s reinstitute the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Investigating Crossfit McFuckface would be the first order of business.