Category: Amusements

No doubt you the news that came out of New Jersey last week. [Came out – I love that!] Governor James McGreevey announced his resignation and shockingly revealed that he… is… a…

[pause here while parents cover the ears of their small children and other grip the seat of the pew in fear of what is coming]

…RELATIVIST! A relativist! A flagrant relativist! In his speech he admitted no less when he said, “One has to look deeply into the mirror of one’s soul and decide one’s unique truth in the world.” McGreevey would have us believe we make up truth as we go along, that each of us is the author of our own individual truth. This is contrary to what we as Catholics profess regarding faith and morals, namely that truth is objective, it is a universal standard that applies to all, not a subjective whim. Christ says in the Gospel, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” There is only one way, one truth, and one life. It is Christ and no other.

Sadly, McGreevey’s is an ever-increasing lot. Yes, relativists are in our schools, our places of business, our government, and even our Church. It pains me to tell you that there are even priests and Bishops who are relativists. [Some women begin to pinch their babies to make them howl.] We don’t each have our own truths of morals and faith, only the one truth that is preserved and taught by the Catholic Church. “Sing a new church into being,” the new age hymn goes. There is no new church worth following, only the Church that was born of the side of Christ as He hung on the Cross.

Don’t be a relativist – you’ll go to Hell.

Please stand for the Creed.

Thank God it’s Friday! That way John won’t order this 6 pound cheeseburger if he goes out tonight.

But if it were, say, Tuesday, the conversation might go like this:

“Either that’s the biggest cheeseburger I’ve ever seen, or I’m shrinking precipitously!” John exclaims.
“You’re not shrinking precipitously,” replies John’s wife.
“I guess that’s the biggest cheeseburger I’ve ever seen!” John says, now salivating precipitously.

The components of John’s disjunctive proposition – biggest cheeseburger he’s ever seen or he’s shrinking precipitously – are called disjuncts. So long as we eliminate all the disjuncts but one, that one must be true – assuming, of course, that the disjunctive premise is true to begin with.

Here it is in standard form:

Either that’s the biggest cheeseburger John’s ever seen, or he’s shrinking precipitously!
He’s not shrinking precipitously.
That’s the biggest cheeseburger John’s ever seen.

Here’s another example.

Either John Kerry was in Cambodia on Christmas in 1968 or he’s a big liar and shouldn’t be elected President.
John Kerry was not in Cambodia on Christmas in 1968.
He’s a big liar and shouldn’t be elected President.

Perhaps Gaea is punishing the US for not siging on to the Kyoto treaty. We don’t have it bad here in Northern Virginia like the eight-hundred thousand or so who were told to evacuate their homes in Tampa. The Old Oligarch and his wife, Zorak, were victim of Mother Nature’s wrath – their car was crushed by an angry Ent yesterday. I thought the Ents were on our side. Old Oligarch has got photos of the carnage.
And don’t miss the subsequent post in reply to some inane criticism of his posts on modest dress. I’m glad we here at CL are on his good side!

Procrastinating monkeys were turned into workaholics using a gene treatment to block a key brain compound, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.

“If I am elected in November, no inner-city child will have to live in an America where George Bush is president,” Kerry said, addressing a packed Maize High School auditorium. “No senior citizen will lie awake at night, worrying about whether George Bush is still the chief executive of this country. And no American—regardless of gender, regardless of class, regardless of race—will be represented by George Bush in the world community.”