Funk nite at the BL pt. CXI: "Song for Sharon"

     Tonite we feature, and maybe stretching the definition of "funk", Joni Mitchell's 1976 "Song for Sharon":

     Funk it up!

December 22, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Ado of Vienne, Olympias, Rufus, Nemesius, Dominic of Silos, Peter Canisius, Chaeromon, John of Kanty, Adele, Eugenia, Stephen, John the Apostle, Anthony the Hermit, and Aileran, please pray for us.

December 8, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Bibiana, Frances Xavier, John of Damascus, Sabas, Nicholas, Maria Giuseppe Rossello, and Romaric, please pray for us.

December 1, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Catherine of Alexandria, John Berchmans, James Intercisus, Catherine Laboure, Saturninus, Andrew the Apostle, and Eligius, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL part CX: "Funky Donkey"

     Tonite we feature, seeing the Democratic victory taking the U.S. House back, "Shake That Funky Donkey", the version by Big Sam's Funky Nation:

     Funk it up!

November 24, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Rose Philippine Duchesne, Nerses the Great, Edmund Rich, Gelasius, Cecilia, and Andrew Dung Lac, and Blessed Miguel Pro, please pray for us.

November 17, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Martin of Tours, Josaphat of Polotsk, Frances Xavier Cabrini, Lawrence O'Toole, Albert the Great, Margaret of Scotland, and Hugh of Lincoln, please pray for us.

November 10, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Charles Borromeo, Elizabeth, Leonard, Achillas, Castorias, Benignus, and Leo the Great, please pray for us.

November 3, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Jude Thaddaeus, Narcissus, Alphonsus Rodriguez, Wolfgang, Valentine Berrio-Ochoa, Victorinus of Pettau, and Martin de Porres, please pray for us.

October 27, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Hilarion, Pope John Paul II, John of Capistrano, Anthony Mary Claret, Daria, Bean, and Frumentius, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. CIX: Kung Fu Vampire in the "Neighborhood"

     Tonite, seeing Halloween is coming up, we feature "Neighborhood" by Kung Fu Vampire:

     Funk it up!

October 20, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Jerome, Thérèse of Lisieux, Léger, Ewald & Ewald, Francis of Assisi, Faustina Kowalska, Bruno, Artaldus, Pelagia, Denis, Rusticus, & Eleutherius, Francis Borgia, Pope John XXIII, Wilfrid, Edward the Confessor, Callistus I, Teresa of Avila, Gerard Majella, Ignatius of Antioch, Luke, Isaac Jogues & Rene Goupil, and Paul of the Cross, please pray for us.

Kavanaugh's WSJ op-ed: a lack of apology

     Brett Kavanaugh's bluntly-titled I Am an Independent, Impartial Judge: Yes, I was emotional last Thursday. I hope everyone can understand I was there as a son, husband and dad. in yesterday's Wall Street Journal may be various things, but the one key thing it maybe had to be, it wasn't. It never says the word "sorry" at any point.

     The judge does say, "I might have been too emotional at times. I know that my tone was sharp, and I said a few things I should not have said." However, this is quite vague, and the "might" shows a lack of genuine sorrow and of serious self-analysis. Even if the word "sorry" had been used, that would not be enough for many observers to conclude Kavanaugh had turned a new leaf; but the lack of the word "sorry", and of the true sentiment of sorrow, is damning.

     As one reason, he gives, "My statement and answers ... reflected my deep distress at the unfairness of how this allegation has been handled." Then why did not Christine Blasey Ford, who has indicated she questioned the fairness of the proceedings, not blow up like he did? In fact, his op-ed doesn't mention her at all. Or Debbie Ramirez. Or sexual assault. Or rape. Or drunkenness. It's not for nothing that the word "I" appears four times in his essay title.

     His September 27 hearing, by the way, was revealing not only of his temperament, but also of his logic, or lack of same. C-SPAN's video "Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Sexual Assault Hearing, Judge Kavanaugh Testimony" shows Kavanaugh, saying at 2 hours nine minutes to Senator Blumenthal, about Renate Dolphin, “she and I never had any sexual interaction”, and claiming he is defending Renate’s reputation.
     But this is all a red herring, because the issue is not whether they actually had sex, but rather, whether a yearbook statement of his was a boast of sexual conquest. And at 2:10, Kavanaugh again poses as a defender of Renate’s reputation, when he is the one who offended her in the first place by his yearbook statement about her. He repeats about Renate, “we never had any sexual interaction”, which again, is not the point at all. ...In his WSJ essay, Kavanaugh doesn't apologize or explain these anomalies about Renate (and maybe other anomalies as well) ; how can we see him as genuinely understanding or repentant, then?

     Finally, retired Justice John Paul Stevens came out against Kavanaugh yesterday, on the basis of the temperament shown at Kavanaugh's recent hearing. So when senators like Susan Collins ponder a vote, they might want to consider Stevens' condemnation, along with the political likelihood that Republicans may forgive her if she votes to confirm another right-leaning nominee (say, Amy Coney Barrett), but Democrats, independents, and even moderate Republicans (or conservative ones with a conscience) may never forgive her if she votes for Kavanaugh. Put another way, swing-vote senators may not have to be sorry, for refusing to vote for someone who never even bothered to say he's sorry. Or: "What goes around, comes around."--Kavanaugh at the September 27 hearing.

My D.C. Circuit judicial misconduct complaint against Kavanaugh

      Yesterday, this author mailed to the D.C. Circuit a judicial misconduct complaint against Brett Kavanaugh. The complaint says he may have violated Canon 2A of the federal judges' conduct code, in his 9/27/18 sex assault hearing. Everyone complains to the Senate, but the present author may be the first to complain to Kavanaugh's own court. (He did send the Senate Judiciary Committee a copy, though.)
      Linked below is a scan of the signed 10-page complaint letter ("Basic Statement of Facts"), and also a copy of the original, unsigned PDF of that letter, because it's more readable than the signed one.

      Signed version

      Unsigned version

      Enjoy!

September 29, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Padre Pio, Martyrs of Chalcedon, Finbar, Cosmas & Damian, Vincent de Paul, Lorenzo Ruiz, and Michael the Archangel, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. CIX: "Louie Louie" in Animal House

     Tonite we feature, in this era of Brett Kavanaugh's un-funky shameful shenanigans, "Louie Louie" in the film Animal House:

     Funk it up!

September 22, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Cornelius, Robert Bellarmine, Joseph of Cupertino, Januarius, Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, & Companions, Matthew, and Thomas of Villanueva, please pray for us.

Brett Kavanaugh as Roy Moore? or, What's the Difference? and What Can We Do?

         Back on August 29, this author wrote "Brett Kavanaugh as Michael Dukakis? or, Why BK’s Loophole for Presidential Harassment Makes a Second- or Third-Choice SCOTUS Nominee More Appetizing", including a section on Presidents raping or harassing White House interns and getting away with it, re Mr. Kavanaugh's colorful ideas about letting Presidents do as they want sans civil or criminal liability until out of office. However, in a flagrant example of life imitating (or being even worse than...) art, it now seems BK may himself have been an attempted gang-rapist (possibly along with another boy, Mark Judge) during high school, according to accuser Christine Blasey Ford. The present author may or may not be a prophet or clairvoyant, but he believes it sometimes pays to imagine some of the worst scenarios possible, since real life may turn out to be like that (or worse).
        This follow-up article urges readers and public to keep on the pressure to investigate BK, and to show solidarity with his accusers (and all sex abuse victims, such as Roy Moore's alleged victims); and also discusses the Trump Administration's options if BK is stopped in his march to fill Tony Kennedy's Court seat.

I. Roy Moore's Ugly Legacy Continues

         The most recent useful analogue to the BK attempted-rape debacle is the surfacing in November 2017 of multiple female accusers of Judge Roy Moore, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Alabama; the accusers alleged that Moore had behaved inappropriately toward them, including sexual assault on underage girls. Some Republican figures asked Moore to withdraw from the race, but Donald Trump and others continued to endorse him. This did not work, as Democratic candidate Doug Jones beat Moore in the special election.
        Similarly, following BK's alleged rape attempt on a female minor in high school, various figures, e.g., activists, are now recommending BK withdraw from his effort to join the Supreme Court, though no noted Republicans may yet be among them. One wonders if Roy Moore's accusers, whether Leigh Corfman, Beverly Young Nelson, or others, will issue any statement of support for Blasey Ford against BK. (There is the hideous possibility that if BK gets on the Court he could end up ruling against Moore's accusers if any of the current lawsuits between Moore's accusers and Moore are appealed to the Supreme Court. This scenario should be forestalled if at all possible.)

II. Possible Disturbing Origins of BK's Absurd Executive-Privilege Ideas

         And BK should not be on the Court anyway, given his written statements in the past that support the ridiculous theory that the President couldn't be stopped from sexually harassing, even raping, his employees or interns, except by impeachment, since civil suits and criminal indictments would be forbidden while he was in office. But how did BK evolve these poisonous ideas anyway?
         At this point, one has a queasy feeling that if BK did try to rape Blasey Ford, and was the kind of brutal and irresponsible person who would do that (or be a gambling addict, say, or go into absurd debt for baseball tickets...), that BK's presidential-privilege fixation may be a form of projection, e.g., that if BK, a child of serious privilege, could and should get away with anything (such as attempted rape), then the President, especially one who might appoint him to the Court, should also have carte blanche to behave like a total cad, bounder, and thug. It is unpleasant to contemplate how BK's alleged rapist-experiences may have shaped his freakish ideas about the Chief Executive, but the present author would not be surprised if the former perverted experiences led to the later intellectual absurdities.

III. Trump Choices after Kavanaugh?

         This author's previous article on BK noted that Senate Democrats, independents, or Republicans of conscience might at best have the option of some other choice among Trump’s nominees, instead of having to accept Trump's first choice, BK. The polarity may be somewhat reversed now, since soon, BK may be a pariah, and Trump may be scrambling to get someone else, anyone else, confirmed, especially since Democrats could take over the Senate in early January.
         So, Trump might want to find someone squeaky clean, or close to that. Seventh Circuit judge Amy Coney Barrett is one person who comes to mind, since she has apparently never tried to rape anyone, and her main "fault" seems to be that she is too religious for some people's taste. There may be other viable candidates, although in any case Trump might want to put a woman on the Court, since his first choice, BK, is now seen as a possible abuser of women; and putting a woman on the Court could be seen as "atonement" for that. In any case, if BK is rejected or withdraws, Trump may want to proceed very fast, and with an innocuous choice, for his next Court nominee.

IV. Conclusion: Fighting Hurricanes and Harassment

         During Hurricane Florence, one notes that there is another real-life hurricane, that of sexual harassment, abuse, or rape, whether done by Donald Trump, Harvey Weinstein, Catholic church officials, Roy Moore, or Brett Kavanaugh. Many people have helped fight against that hurricane, such as Roy Moore's victims. Christine Blasey Ford is also aiding that fight, and this author greatly appreciates her heroic, patriotic sacrifices in coming forward publicly, showing her face, to accuse Kavanaugh about the attempted rape or gang-rape in high school.
         After all, the Supreme Court of the United States is the "People's Court", in a Nation where government is to serve the people, not the other way around. When people like Blasey Ford, or Roy Moore's alleged victims, or anyone else, speak up against injustice, we get to know, support, and nurture one another; and we even get to influence who is on the Court, or not, just as is happening now. Without saying that "We get the Court that we deserve": if we do not speak up when we should, we may not get the Court we deserve. And that would be a tragedy: and an avoidable tragedy at that.

September 15, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Peter Claver, Salvius of Albi, Paphnutius, Ailbhe, John Chrysostom, Notburga, and Valerian, please pray for us.

September 8, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Ingrid of Sweden, Pope Gregory the Great, Rosalia, Teresa of Calcutta, Eleutherius, Cloud, and Adrian, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt: CVIII: The Queen's Guards pay "Respect" to Queen Aretha

     Tonite we feature, after a funkless Auguest (summer vacation?), on this lovely Labor Day, a lovely tribute to a royal lady, the Queen of England's Welsh Guards performing "Respect" (!!!) at Buckingham Palace for the departed Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin:

     Funk it up!

September 1, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Sabina, Rumon, Raymond Nonnatus, and Giles (Abbot), please pray for us.

Brett Kavanaugh as Michael Dukakis? or, Why BK’s Loophole for Presidential Harassment Makes a Second- or Third-Choice SCOTUS Nominee More Appetizing

         Mr. Brett Kavanaugh has expressed urges, as we know, to let the President do as he wants without civil or criminal liability until he’s left office. (BK’s initials, ironically, could also stand not only for “Burger King” but also “Bandit King” or just “Bad King”, fitting for the bad idea of allowing the Executive a free pass to behave badly for up to eight years.) While BK’s opponents may not be able to keep one of Trump’s picks from getting on the Supreme Court (especially after the death of John McCain—RIP), they may at least be able to ask that someone else (e.g., Amy Coney Barrett) be put on the Court instead of BK. Indeed, this may be the reasonable best they can do, seeing that Republicans outnumber Democrats in the Senate.

I. “Six Years of Savagery”

         BK has many questionable ideas, e.g., a 6-year U.S. presidential term instead of two 4-year terms. But a single, unrepeatable term would give the President no incentive to do a good job—especially if given freedom from civil/criminal liability when in office. If the President can seek two terms, then she must go the People again to win a second term and serve more than 4 years: a bad President will likely be fired, and a good one re-elected. Thus, an incentive to perform well, instead of just looting and pillaging for 6 years.

II. Michael Dukakis and Harassing/Raping White House Interns

         Or, looting, pillaging, and raping. Which is where Michael Dukakis comes in. That 1988 Democratic presidential nominee was infamously caught flat-footed in a television debate with Republican nominee George H.W. Bush, when asked the (shocking) question of whether Dukakis would support an irrevocable death penalty if his wife, Kitty Dukakis, were raped and murdered. Dukakis gave a cold, emotionless response about his theoretical opposition to the death penalty, which did not show any concern for his wife’s (hypothetical) abuse, suffering, and brutal death. Somewhat needless to say, Dukakis lost the election.
         If BK helps end legal liability for a sitting President, what is stopping him from sexually harassing, even raping (or gray areas bordering on rape), his employees or interns? Clinton misbehaved with Monica Lewinsky; why couldn’t another president do even worse?
         BK’s own daughters, or other wealthy scions, might not be harassed or assaulted. But what about the rest of us? In this age of #MeToo and Time's Up, we should be concerned.

         It is too easy to say that a caddish, sleazy President would automatically be impeached and removed from office. Was Bill Clinton removed? What if the President’s party controls at least one house of Congress, and there is a gray area, e.g., the President says, “It was consensual, it’s her word against mine?” With no regular civil or criminal investigation possible for years, and evidence (like blue dresses) decaying, witnesses (or victims) dying, disappearing, or committing suicide, and other obvious problems (e.g., the President pardons himself on his last day of office), the White House becomes a potential rape and harassment zone of the first order: a potential “Brothel in the Beltway”.
         BK has reportedly treated his female clerks well, and loves his girls. That’s nice, but his ideas still endanger anyone, including women, working in the White House. Actually, his ideas endanger the whole Nation, since a get-out-of-jail-free card, relieving pressure on the cardholder, does not always produce decent behavior in someone who holds that card, but instead may foment license and bad behavior. Cf. Boyle’s Law in chemistry (gas expanding with more license, tends to be associated with that gas being under lower pressure).

III. Out of the Presidential Kitchen

         BK thinks investigations might “distract” the President. Well, not all “distraction” is bad. The “distraction” of running for a second term might get a President to try to perform well in her first term. The “distraction” of potentially being sued or criminally investigated might dissuade a President from, say, raping his interns in the first place. If a President can’t take the heat of running for a second term, or of potential lawsuits/investigations, he should get out of the kitchen.

IV. The Senate Deserves More Choices than Kavanaugh

         That all being the case, the Senate is not obliged to endorse Trump’s first choice, BK, for Anthony Kennedy’s replacement. Kennedy himself was a third choice; first Ronald Reagan considered Bob Bork, then Douglas “Not Ruth Bader” Ginsburg, finally, Tony K. All of Trump’s nominees might be loathsome to liberals (Roe v. Wade, etc.); but not all of them have publicly endorsed carte blanche for bad behavior by sitting Presidents. If Reagan had to take a third choice, why shouldn’t Trump?
         Senate Democrats, independents, or Republicans of conscience may balk at endorsing any of Donald Trump’s nominees, whether, say, Amy Coney Barrett or anyone else. However, in an imperfect world, one does the best one can. So, the Senate may be able to insist that they at least have some choice among Trump’s nominees, instead of just swallowing the first choice shoved down their throat.
         And Trump’s first choice is a highly questionable choice. Indeed, BK’s sad misunderstanding of the idea that the President is here to serve humbly the People, rather than to savage them without their having recourse to lawsuit or criminal complaint, could and maybe should lead the Senate to go on to any second or third choices that the President offers. We hardly need Russia to destroy us, if we are destroying ourselves by allowing the Supreme Court to let the First Citizen behave like the First Criminal for all his years in office.

August 28, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Martha, Peter Chrysologus, Ignatius of Loyola, Alphonsus Marie Liguori, Eusebius of Vercelli, Lydia Purpuraria, John Vianney, Addal, Pope Hormisdas, Cajetan, Dominic, Edith Stein, Lawrence (Deacon and Martyr), Clare, Michael My, Hippolytus, Maximilian Kolbe, Alipius, Stephen the Great, Clare of Montefalco, Helena, John Eudes, Bernard of Clairvaux, Pius X, Andrew the Scot, Philip Benizi, Bartholomew, Louis (King of France), Teresa of Jesus Jornet Ibars, Monica, and Augustine of Hippo, please pray for us.

July 28, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Mary Magdalene, Bridget of Sweden, John Boste, James the Greater, Joachim and Anne, Pantaleon, and Pope Innocent I, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. CVII: Blondie's "Rapture"

     Tonite we feature Blondie's "Rapture" from 1980, the first rap song to make it to #1:

     Funk it up!

July 21, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Grimbald, Veronica Giuliani, Benedict of Nursia, John Gaulbert (Abbot), Henry, Kateri Tekakwitha, Bonaventure, Carmelite Nuns of Compiègne, Frederick, Arsenius the Great, Margaret of Antioch, and Lawrence of Brindisi, and Blessed Emmanuel Ruiz, please pray for us.

July 7, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Junipero Serra, Bernardino Realino, Thomas, Elizabeth of Portugal, Anthony Mary Zaccaria, and Maria Goretti, and Blessed Ralph Milner, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. CVI: Dead Kennedys' "California Über Alles"

     Tonite (Saturday for a change) we feature, seeing the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the Supreme Court, the Dead Kennedys' "California Über Alles":

     Funk it up!

June 30, 2018 saintlist

     Saints John the Baptist, William of Vercelli, Anthelm, Cyril of Alexandria, Irenaeus, Peter, and First Martyrs of the See of Rome, please pray for us.

June 23, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Emily de Vialar, Gregory Barbarigo, Romuald, Vincent Kaun, Aloysius Gonzaga, Thomas More, and Joseph Cafasso, please pray for us.

June 16, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Charles Lwanga and Companions, Francis Caracciolo, Boniface of Mainz, Norbert, Willibald, William of York, Ephrem, Getulius, Barnabas, John of Sahagun, Anthony of Padua, Methodius I, Germaine Cousin, and John Francis Regis, please pray for us.

June 2, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Augustine of Canterbury, Maximinus of Trier, Joan of Arc, Mechtildis, Justin Martyr, and Marcellinus and Peter, and Blessed Margaret Pole, please pray for us.

May 26, 2018 saintlist

     Saints John the Silent, Matthias, Dymphna, Simon Stock, Paschal Baylon, Pope John I, Celestine, Bernardine of Siena, Eugene de Mazenod, Rita, John Baptist de Rossi, David I of Scotland, Mary Magdalene de Pazzi, and Philip Neri, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. CV: Korea got the funk

     Tonite we feature some Korean funk by Moon Ji Young, in honor of how Trump funked up the Sooper Singapore Summit with North Korea:

     Funk it up!

May 12, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Dominic Savio, Rose Venerini, Peter of Tarantaise, Pachomius, Damien of Molokai, Ignatius of Laconi, and Nereus & Achilleus, please pray for us.

May 5, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Catherine of Siena, Pope Pius V, Marculf, Athanasius, James the Lesser, Florian, and Hilary of Arles, please pray for us.

April 28, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Abdiesus, George, Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Mark, Cletus, Zeta, and Peter Chanel, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. CIV: Stones' "Hot Stuff"

     Tonite we feature, from the Rolling Stones' 1976 "Black and Blue", the funky hit single "Hot Stuff":

     Funk it up!

April 21, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Paternus, Bernadette, Anicetus, Apollonius the Apologist, Alphege, Marian, and Anselm, please pray for us.

April 14, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Julie Billiart, Waldetrudis, Michael de Sanctis, Marguerite d'Youville, Julius, Pope Martin I, and Lydwine, please pray for us.

April 7, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Hugh of Grenoble, Francis of Paola, Richard of Wyche, Isidore of Seville, Vincent Ferrer, William of Eskilsoe, and John Baptist de la Salle, please pray for us.

March 31, 2018 saintlist

     On this Holy Saturday, Saints Dismas, Margaret Clitherow, Rupert, Venturino of Bergamo, Berthold, Peter Regulatus, and Benjamin, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. CIII: Elmer Bernstein's musical flight for Taarna in "Heavy Metal"

     Tonite we feature 1981 film "Heavy Metal" and part of the late great Elmer Bernstein's iconic score, for the flight of the last Taarakian, Taarna the Defender, over the shimmering landscape of her fantasy world. The musical style may not be "funk" per se, but the whole sound-and-vision thing put together is pretty funky, in a broad sense:

     Funk it up!

March 24, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Cyril of Jerusalem, Adrian, Enda, Lea, Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo, and Aldemar, and Blessed John of Parma, please pray for us.

March 17, 2018 saintlist

     Saint Patrick, please pray for us.

March 10, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Tarasius, Isabel of France, Leander of Seville, Pope Hilary, David, Katharine Drexel, Casimir, John Joseph of the Cross, Colette, Perpetua & Felicity, John of God, Frances of Rome, and John Ogilvie, and Blessed Charles the Good, please pray for us.

February 24, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Paschal, Buonfiglio Monaldo, Catherine de Ricci, Valentine, Walfrid, Daniel, Alexis Falconieri, Simon, Wulfric, Severian, Margaret of Cortona, Polycarp, and John Theristus, and Blessed Alvarez of Corova, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. CII: Stevie Wonder's "Have a Talk with God"

     Tonite we feature, in honor of Billy Graham, "Have a Talk with God" by Stevie Wonder:

     Funk it up!

RIP Billy Graham

     Praying for his soul. (Or does he need it?)

     RIP BG.

February 10, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Thomas Aquinas, Sarbelius & Barbea, Aldegunais, John Bosco, Brigid of Ireland, Joan de Lestonnac, Blaise, Joan of Valois, Agatha, Paul Miki, Moses, Jerome Emiliani, Apollonia, and Scholastica, please pray for us.

January 27, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Agnes, Vincent Pallotti, Ildephonsus, Francis de Sales, Peter Thomas, Timothy, and Angela Merici, please pray for us.

Funk nite at the BL pt. CI: Funky "Folsom Prison Blues"

     Tonite, seeing the recent shenanigans with Don Trump caught apparently falsely denying he was gonna fire Bob Mueller from this job investigating Trump, we feature Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues", but in a funky version by Annie Handley:

     Funk it up! Stay out of prison--unless you belong there!!

January 20, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Felix of Nola, Paul the Hermit, Fursey, Anthony the Abbot, Volusian, Fillan, and Fabian, please pray for us.

January 13, 2018 saintlist

     Saints Raymond of Pennafort, Thorfinn, Abbot Adrian, William of Bourges, Theodosius the Cenobiarch, Marguerite Bourgeoys, and Hilary of Poitiers, please pray for us.

January 6, 2018 saintlst

     Saints Sylvester, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Basil the Great, Genevieve, Elizabeth Ann Seton, John Neumann, and Andre Bessette, please pray for usl