The Girl Who Was Saturday

Friday, August 5, 2022

Life, Death, and Freedom - Guest Post by Bernice Flower Frenchhouse

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 Hail, all 3.7 readers still receiving notifications for this blog!  This is a bit unusual, but recently someone asked me about guest postin...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Common Sense Versus the Experts

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This is, in essence, a repost of a comment I made on Facebook during a conversation about pandemic related issues.  It has wider import, how...
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Monday, May 10, 2021

Know Your Medieval "State"

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I'm always miffed to hear the libertarian-leaning conservatives talk about the problems of feudalism, etc., as if the main issue with me...
Tuesday, April 13, 2021

Unspeakable Monsters, I

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This morning I was reading in a Catholic periodical when I encountered an off-handed and unironic reference to Ronald Reagan as a “monster.”...
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Friday, April 9, 2021

When the Bridegroom Is Taken Away

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It is a feature of every organized religion to have seasons of fasting and feasting, mourning and rejoicing; and yet there can scarcely be a...
Monday, April 5, 2021

Unpaid Labor

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There’s a new phrase on the block—well, new as of the past few years.   (Whoever said this blog kept up with an instantaneous news cycle?)  ...
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Friday, March 12, 2021

Equality, Equity, and the Law

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 It's been entertaining seeing progressives and conservatives battle over the term "equity" in recent weeks.  As used by progr...
Friday, March 5, 2021

What the Mule Doesn't Prove

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Don't get me wrong.  I enjoy Radiolab.  It's an interesting podcast (though to be fair, I haven't listened much in years).  That...
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Friday, February 26, 2021

The Last Jot or Tittle

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It's striking that after the revolutionary beatitudes, Our Lord sums up with some reactionary-sounding language, almost as if he wants t...
Wednesday, February 24, 2021

If the Salt Loses Its Flavor

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Part of my Lent entails going back to the New Testament, and since Matthew practically leads with the Sermon on the Mount, I’m already readi...
Monday, February 22, 2021

Tribes, Traitors, and “A Bargain for Francis” (III)

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One of the highlights of the Platonic dialogues is the Socratic distinction (in the Meno ) between right opinion and knowledge.  It’s easy t...
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Sunday, February 21, 2021

Tribes, Traitors, and “A Bargain for Francis” (II)

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But the choice to be friends is not the antidote to tribalism; it can, of course, be implicated in tribalism as well.  When we become friend...
Saturday, February 20, 2021

Tribes, Traitors, and “A Bargain for Francis” (I)

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My kids love the books “Bread and Jam for Francis” and “A Bargain for Francis”—part of a series about a young female badger and her humanoid...
Wednesday, February 17, 2021

To Ash or Not to Ash

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It's entertaining, in ordinary times (not to be confused with "Ordinary Time") to listen to the Ash Wednesday Gospel, where Ou...
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Sunday, February 14, 2021

This Is Another Bad Argument, or, Uninformed and Unfiltered Thoughts about Child Tax Credits

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The Romney plan has been critiqued by (if memory serves) AEI, and Romney's fellow senator Mike Lee, but praised by Lyman Stone.  The rea...
Saturday, February 13, 2021

The Halloween Option

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 N.B. The title of this post is the one I originally gave the piece, and not the one the editor chose for it (see link).  As all writers kno...
Saturday, February 6, 2021

"A Pirate, Horror!"

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These days my children have become fascinated by Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance .  This follows a previous fascination w...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

An Immodest Proposal Regarding the Regulation of Social Networks Qua Public Utilities (IV)

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Or, a cadenza on section 230.   One of my other friends commented on the original series post to the effect that section 230 (specifically...
Wednesday, January 27, 2021

An Immodest Proposal Regarding the Regulation of Social Networks Qua Public Utilities (III)

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But that brings back the first point: why should anyone care whether I, or anyone else, has a voice on social media at all?   As my friend p...
Tuesday, January 26, 2021

An Immodest Proposal Regarding the Regulation of Social Networks Qua Public Utilities (II)

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A friend remarked on the last post ( The Girl Who Was Saturday: An Immodest Proposal Regarding the Regulation of Social Networks Qua Public ...
Monday, January 25, 2021

Facing the Right Direction

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 Monsignor at Mass yesterday told an entertaining story: while he was in Rome, he was nearly involved in a vehicular collision in a narrow a...
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Saturday, January 23, 2021

On Pilgrimage With a New Catholic Poet

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It is not every day that a new poetry collection is published — the bar is high enough, in the contracting publishing world, for nonfiction ...
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Righting the Wrongs of Josh Hawley (II)

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I realize that yesterday I did something that drives me crazy when other writers do it: namely, I dug into the overly simple solutions that ...
Monday, January 18, 2021

Righting the Wrongs of Josh Hawley

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I’ve been thinking about this NY Times piece on Josh Hawley (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opinion/josh-hawley-religion-democracy.html?...
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Tuesday, January 12, 2021

An Immodest Proposal Regarding the Regulation of Social Networks Qua Public Utilities (I)

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Once again the prospect of regulating Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, et al. is being floated.   Are the companies best regarded as p...
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Saturday, December 12, 2020

Have Courage and Be Kind

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Branagh's Cinderella (2015) was underrated at the time, and I have not rewatched it yet; but I suspect strongly that it holds up well to...
Thursday, December 10, 2020

What If This Were Real (II)

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But let me take that up a notch.  I think in a deeper sense, the semi-pros in that  Princess Ida  production aren't actually doing what ...
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