Worst Pope Ever?
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Worst Pope Ever?

Garrison Keillor performed a neat trick. He gently teased and admonished his enlightened NPR (pardon the redundancy) audience, which to a man or a woman identifying as a man, thought…
Insanity & Doom Update XLVI
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Insanity & Doom Update XLVI

A special all-reader-contribution edition of Doom! Item WeWork will stop serving meat at company events in effort to reduce environmental impact (Thanks to Sheri for the link.) The co-working startup…
Corporate Zampolit
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Corporate Zampolit

Soviet military companies and regiments infamously had in addition to regular officers zampolit, or (by the older name) political commissars. The position was as "a supervisory officer responsible for the…
What Christianity Fails Into
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What Christianity Fails Into

People don't usually embrace Caribbean animistic Santeria when abandoning Christianity. They instead become animal "rights" supporters and talk about being nice to the planet. Nor do ex-Christians typically replace bathtub…