The Wednesday Eudemon
Long day at the office yesterday, followed by two tall ones at the drinking club, then home to watch the American Idol season premier. I told the guys at the drinking club that I had to head home to watch AI, and they said I was violating a man law. Maybe so, but my kids love the show, and it's the TV cultural event of the year, so I put my manhood on the line and watched.
It started off gangbusters: they spent the first five minutes showing us a girl cry. The next ten minutes featured an angry person and a girl who was born a crack baby. Very depressing. It got better after that, but I didn't make it up for the entire two hours.
Are people bored during the winter months? Man, there's some sick news items out there, revolving around (of course) sex. Some of it I won't even mention (too sick), but there is this little nugget out of Florida: A 30-year-old man kidnapped, raped and tortured his wife, then hung her from a tree to film a two-hour bondage pornography video, authorities said Tuesday. That's not simply a "grabber" intro. The story gets even better. But it has nothing to do with our porn culture, of course. People have always gotten such weird ideas in their heads, well before Deep Throat. Yup, nothing to do with our porn-saturated culture at all. Yup.
Better item: It's the Memorial of St. Antony today. The father of monasticism. He started the desert pilgrimage of the fourth century that took tens of thousands of men (and some women) to the desert to pray, forsaking the turmoils and temptations of the late Roman Empire. If I understand correctly, there's been a monastic bump in the U.S. lately. I wonder if the men, too, are forsaking an empire in its later days.
Video shows triplets bonding in a mother's womb. It sounds quite touching. When do we go in with the syringe and do a little selective reduction? The little guys won't miss the dead one. Not at all. We know that for sure.
Enough joking: Abortion will end. These types of videos are showing abortion for what it is: murder. Right now, we have too many adults who have ensconced themselves in abortion rights and will never back down, no matter what the evidence. They could see a video where a baby shouts out the Pythagorean Theorem and yells, "Please don't kill me," and they wouldn't change their mind. But as young people grow up with this type of video evidence, their opinions won't anneal so strongly in favor of abortion, and they're not going to want to defend it. We have a warped culture, yes, but it won't continue to sanction millions of baby murders a year.
Catholicism and the work place. New blog at Catholic Exchange. This niche blog looks pretty neat.
