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Rod Dreher
Leming-Aid on April 10
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Rod Dreher
That’s what organizers of the fundraising concert for my sister Ruthie Dreher Leming are calling the event — and Leming-Aid now has a Facebook page. Several of you have kindly asked how you can donate money. Really, my family is floored by the generosity of strangers, and we thank you deeply and truly. I’m told…
Self-esteem not the same as self-respect
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Rod Dreher
So says Theodore Dalrymple, whose regular readers know was a prison physician. Excerpt: The problem with low self-esteem is not self-dislike, as is often claimed, but self-absorption. However, it does not follow from this that high self-esteem is not a genuine problem. One has only to go into a prison, or at least a prison…
“Scarface” by second graders
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Rod Dreher
Look at this:Could this thing really have happened in a school? Or is this a viral fake? If it was staged in a school, what sort of INSANE teachers and principals let this happen? And if it’s a fake, it still required adults to put very small children up to acting out film dialogue with…
The NYT and Pope Benedict
By
Rod Dreher
By the way, I am persuaded by Father R.J. de Souza’s argument that The New York Times was desperately stretching to connect Benedict with the Father Murphy disaster in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. I always believed this was a problem that Abp Weakland and his predecessors preferred to kick down the road, as so many…
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