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The Consolations of Pedantry

The Not Too Personal Blog of Joseph L. Grabowski

Where Charity and Love Do Not Prevail

6/25/2022

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Scrolling thru Twitter, I came across the following exchange between a woman who had had an abortion after rape, and another who was conceived in rape...
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This is not wisdom or compassion, but a dark and sad nihilism born out of injury.

​My heart aches for both these individuals. But they both reminds us that abortion culture doesn't help women who are victims, it goes on and victimizes them more.

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The Greatest and Yet Least

6/24/2022

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PictureGeertgen tot Sint Jans: John the Baptist in the Wilderness; Encyclopædia Britannica.
Today (by the Roman Martyrology)* is the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.

It has also been named as another opinions release day by the Supreme Court this week.

I see a lot of people who seem convinced that today is the day we'll see Dobbs handed down. The question is whence these speculations arise? On the one hand, it could simply be guessing, in which case the person is, after all, playing fairly decent odds. For each opinion day that arrives with Dobbs not having been released, the odds of its release upon that day become statistically more likely. Poor at math as am I, yet even I can figure those numbers. On the other hand, some of the folks I see speculating might have even better reasons, because they are, some of them, a certain sort of people. That is, people who might know someone who knows someone who knows a clerk with whom yet another someone dined last night, and who at one point in the meal looked up over his glass of wine, raised his eyebrows, and heavily cleared his throat and either said no more or, more riskily, mentioned something vague about parking on the Hill. I mean, that sort of thing and this sort of person each have their precedents.

Then again, just because no release days have yet been scheduled for next week doesn't mean they can't be added ad hoc. That, too, has precedent. So all we can really do is wait and watch and see what we will see.

But I had mentioned Saint John the Baptist...


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