Miscellaneous

H.I.F. Guinness, Heineken, and Sam Adams pull their sponsorship of St. Patrick's Day Parades because organizers won't let LGBT groups carry pro-gay signs. Link [http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/03/16/lgbt-groups-plan-protests-for-st-patricks-day-parade/] . So, if you're drinking Sam Adams, Guinness, or Heineken . . . well,

Rod Dreher blogs about the pending death of the miserable Fred Phelps [http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/the-miserable-end-of-fred-phelps/] , the man who can probably claim more credit than anyone else for the success of the homosexual cause in the public sphere. > I've always thought the Westboro Baptist Church

Not a single Indiana team made it to the Tournament this year. Indiana, Purdue, Notre Dame: shut out. All the other schools that have made Dance appearances in past years (Butler, Indiana State, Evansville, Valparaiso, Ball State, IUPUI): shut out.

Expect more posts about older links this coming week. I didn't get through my backlog last week.

A Random Passage Even when the Ivy League had religion it was corrupt: "'Be Christians,' I once heard a president of Yale College cry to his assembled pupils, 'be Christians and you will be successful.'" George Santayana, Character and Opinion in the United States

This week Pope Francis is celebrating his first anniversary as Pope, and he tweeted to his 3.7 million followers “Please pray for me.” I was a little surprised that he hashtagged it, “so hung over.”

H.I.F. Although I have found his books difficult to understand, I've long been intrigued by Ivan Illich. He strikes me as one of those thinkers who has an insightful and alternative handle on what's occurring in the modern world, even if his ideas occasionally

BYCU A TDE reader sent me this story [http://www.thelocal.de/20140305/euro-eurosceptic-afd-csu-germany-meet-for-ash-wednesday-summits-in-bavaria] last week: "On Ash Wednesday every year, German politicians are given a chance to drink a lot of beer in tents and then take to a podium to speak their minds on any subject, or

New reports show that the Crimean vote to join Russia on Sunday did not include an option for “no.” There were only two boxes on the ballot, one for “yes,” and one for “murder my family.”

They have now made Stallone's "Rocky" into a Broadway musical. It's getting such great early notices that they're already working on another one. I think the second one is "Rambo Get Your Gun."