It’s like putting tooth paste back in the tube.

Just as there are certain words that, once you’ve heard them, you can never forget. (“Onomatopoeia” comes to mind.) there are life-moments so deeply imbedded in our neurological makeup that generations will carry them to their graves: President Kennedy’s assassination, 9-11, the murder of MLK, Barrack Obama’s speech on the night of his first presidential election, January 6.

Way to go, Pope Francis!

You’ve picked such great winners this time, we can hardly wait to see your next Fantasy Football line-up.

The instructions to A.B. McDonald (1871-1942), a veteran reporter for The Kansas City Star, were direct and simple: “Find out what made Atlanta crazy and how.”

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised
for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
It would be better to live under robber barons
than under omnipotent moral busybodies.
The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep,
his cupidity may at some point be satiated;
but those who torment us for our own good
will torment us without end
for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil;
that put darkness for light, and light for darkness;
that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!"
(Isa. 5:20.)

“The greatest way to love another person is to pray for them.”
Father Frank Meccia, MM

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats
did it take to change a light panel?
We’ll have a sub-committee meeting
and get back to you with an estimate.”
Peter F. Hamilton

“Let’s form a committee tasked with exploring
why committees are so ineffective.
Then we’ll stand-back and watch it
argue and self-destruct.”
Ryan Lilly

“The same thing happened today that happened yesterday,
Only to different people….
We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind,
since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others,
and we teach the good that they are good in vain….
Too many people expect wonders from democracy,
when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it….”
Walter Winchell

While his state legislature is still meeting, the governor of the Sometime State has already called lawmakers to a special session – beginning June 19th, an irony not noted by the governor or legislators - to pass a new series of “child protection” and “anti-pornography-in-our-schools” legislation.

The book – barely 9 x 7 inches and only 250 page – is falling part.

Its pages almost as brittle as ancient parchment, its binding broken and its deep blue cover scarred from too frequent use, it sits on my office shelf waiting for the next time I must apologize for its appearance.

We’ll take our cues from the television commentator who – at some point – hated a recent president “passionately,” called the Florida retiree “a demonic force, a destroyer” and specializes in the CYAs (look it up if you don’t recognize the acronym) “I’m just asking a question here… What actually happened? …Why can’t I ask questions? …Can I ask? I don’t really understand.”

Not-Serious-As-A-Heart-Attack, the oxymoronically self-described “Christian” morality- and-politics conglomerate, has been busy tying itself into a moral conundrum of oxymoronity.

It’s said his spirit – his ghost – still roams the building in which he once lived.

More than any other before or after him, he may well have been the most tragic occupant of the White House.

AMERICAN ASSOCIATED NEWS: Tallahassee, Florida. (Saturday, February 30, 2023)

Following the example of other would-be presidential candidates, Florida governor Ron DeSantis released his political tome – The Courage To Be Free To Twist Facts While Sowing Fear – on Saturday, February 30 with a press conference at the boutique What-A-Weird-Story.

“If you are distressed by anything external,
the pain is not due to the thing itself
but to your own estimate of it;
and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
Marcus Aurelius

Oh, how we would have enjoyed knowing James Martin Weeks!

Oh, how we wish he were still alive to encourage and comfort Rolando Jose Alvarez Lago as he languishes in a Nicaraguan prison!

“Three things are needed for success in painting and sculpture:
to see beauty when young and accustom oneself to it,
to work hard, and
to obtain good advice.”
Gian Lorenzo Bernini

“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night seven times sealed.
Never shall I forget that smoke.
Never shall I forget the small faces of the children whose bodies I saw transformed into smoke under a silent sky.
Never shall I forget those flames that consumed my faith for ever.
Never shall I forget the nocturnal silence that deprived me for all eternity of the desire to live.
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
Never shall I forget those things, even were I condemned to live as long as God Himself.
Never.”.

“Never Shall I Forget” from Night
Elie Wiesel

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil:
God will not hold us guiltless.
Not to speak is to speak.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Those who remain silent are responsible.”
Edith Stein

(St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross)

UNUNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL SPECIAL:

TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA by UPI special reporter Lance Modnoc

Who can forget Sarah Palin’s “death panels”?

Before we delve into those, let’s use facts to demythologize: Sarah Palin never said she could “see Russia” from her front porch.