No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family. In forming a marital union, two people become something greater than once they were. The above quote is from the majority opinion of the Supreme Court in Obergefell v. Hodges, which just made gay marriage a right to […]
Reprinted from the Press and Journal Mark my words: Come January 20th, 2017, Hillary Clinton will be sworn in as the first female president of the United States of America. The media will swoon, the nation will rejoice (at least the half that voted for her), and Chris Matthews will get that old thrill of up […]
My take on the Rachel Dolezal scandal might differ from that of many of my fellow contributors to The Mitrailleuse, but I’d like (for some foolish reason) to wade in anyway. The shocking revelation — salaciously captured in a video interview — that a self-identified African-American NAACP leader and Africana Studies professor from Spokane, Washington, has been “passing” as black when she was in […]
The General Convention of the Episcopal Church convenes in about two weeks, where they will consider an amendment to the canons smoothing out a discrepancy between the Book of Common Prayer and the canons and the “pastoral response” to gay couples; a liturgy in use since 2012 which clearly violated them. The Anglican Curmudgeon has a useful post on the problem. Others include […]
It’s a common error to think that mystics and magicians are generally liberals or leftists. At least in America. Most Boomer Americans, monolingual, insulated from the rest of the world and from history, associate “magick” with hippies, the “60s”, Tim Leary, pot and acid, and sexual freedom. When they think about it at all which isn’t […]
Apologies for the light posting, I’ve been on vacation the last week in New Orleans. It was my first time in the city, and also my first time using Airbnb, and both were great. The night we arrived Irma Thomas was playing for free in Lafayette Square: Read Too : When Did Catholicism Become Compatible With The American Experiment
Chris Cillizza of The Washington Post’s “The Fix” tries really, really hard to be a nice guy. A ham on Twitter, Cillizza does what many journalists can’t do: he pokes fun at politics while also taking it far too seriously. For one, he despises the Netflix series “House of Cards.” As a journalist, he hates the idea that Washington […]