Outside The Asylum

How some people on both sides of the climate change debate are misusing weather to prove climate. The Age Of Disinformation — Medium : 'via Blog this'

The answer to this question is YES.  Which is why responsible gun store owners do background checks.

New evidence suggests that the masculinity crisis that Cardinal Burke was talking about is indeed real- and far more widespread than just the church.

Scott Adams of Dilbert Fame has been contemplating Euthanasia and to his eternal credit, he decided to debate Jimmy Akins from Catholic Answers on the subject.   The resulting combox conversation is extremely long and interesting, and it gave me the following idea of how to reduce many of the normal Catholic objections to Euthanasia, for those who dissent on Church Teaching from said subject (I do not dissent from Church Teaching, but this proposal addresses many, if not most, of my concerns on the subject): A proposal for a new monastic order, researching end of life care, pain management, and Euthanasia. The typical monastery would be a micromonastery, consisting of three small bedrooms, a living area, a kitchen, a dining area.  Each bedroom would have a separate toilet and bathing area. Members chosen for a given micromonastery should be all of the same faith, should dissent from Church Teaching on Euthanasia, and should be all of the same gender (including the odd 58 ...

Don’t Kill People with Disabilities. Especially Family. @BADDtweets : Yep.  Don't treat people with disabilities as less than human.  Even if they haven't been born yet.

It is in the Catechism that we are not to put our faith in the secular forces of the AntiChrist. I submit that with this current redefinition of the institution of marriage- and possibly with the original mistake of allowing Catholic Priests to act as agents of the State with regard to the secular portion of marriage- we are committing Americanism, putting the Constitution as a higher law than Canon Law. 680 Christ the Lord already reigns through the Church, but all the things of this world are not yet subjected to him. The triumph of Christ's kingdom will not come about without one last assault by the powers of evil. . I don't think this is the final assault. But it may well be an intermediary one.

Europeans have so much faith in big government that they're betting against the free market, enabling countries to be paid to borrow. You heard me right. 30% of Eurozone governmental debt is at a NEGATIVE interest rate. As in it costs you something to own it and there is no return on investment at all. What is astounding is that Europeans distrust banks and brokerage houses so much, that they are willing to pay their governments to safegaurd their money, even if that means their money loses value. I guess it loses slower than they expect to lose it in a bank account, but come on, even the cowardly servant in the Parable of the Talents knew enough to bury his one coin. You get a better rate of return converting your cash to metal and burying it in the ground,m than you do from these governments in the Eurozone, so what is really going on?