Title: Tires Out

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 30 in x 40 in

Free Trade

It ain't trade, and it ain't free.

Was an unforgettable episode

"Ya know something Wally? I was thinkin' - gee whiz, how come the adults made the Baltimore Catechism tell us kids to eat our brussel sprouts and stuff and to offer it up - ya know, as a sacrifice, in our mind-like with folded hands and gaze toward heaven and all - and I was thinkin', why don't our parents instead learn how to cook vegetables properly and not offload their slothful rigid set ways on us kids as a spiritual burden, you know, make the effort to try better recipes and not just boil the vegetables to nearly mush?"

"I'm afraid I'm going to have to kill you Beav."

Some links of interest

A great article here by Scott Eric Alt:

Pope Francis Derangement Syndrome XXIV: Cardinal Burke’s Rebel Yell

a resource for which was this excellent thread by Dawn Eden Goldstein.

C. Burke is:

-- swimming in ambiguity

-- teaching pervasive heretical errors

-- sowing confusion and division

Some people like to think they're really getting their meat and potatoes with this guy. It's all pseudo-orthodox bullshit. The blind leading the blind.

Also, here is a great article - the first excerpt from a book by Nicolas Senèze - concerning Pope Saint Viganò the Just, current reigning pontiff at New Kingdom Hall Skybalon Site News (though of course they have two popes, the other being Pope Saint Burke the Clear):

'How America wanted to change the pope.' Chapter 1: The man of scandal

This is an actual example of real investigative journalism, real research and reporting - not steaming hot vulture excrement.

There's also this excellent thread by Mike Lewis on the 3 main arguments used by anti-Francis Catholics who court the fantasy - such an uber lucid dream too! - that he's not really Pope.

I also found this tweet by D.W. Lafferty very apt:

There is an epidemic of genteel philistinism within Catholic conservativism which makes those affected completely unable to process documents like the Instrumentum Laboris of the Amazon Synod or Laudato si'.

Those affected are also completely unable to process documents such as Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum together with Letter to the Bishops on the Occasion of the Publication of the Apostolic Letter "Motu Proprio Data"

The latter letter a perfectly fine example of how clarifying a previous letter completely falls on willfully deaf ears and gets totally ignored by the Inquisition of Perennial Clarity and Professionals at Appropriation.

They basically read the two letters and couldn't discern anything over their own shrieks of, "The letters are all about MEEEEEEE!!!"

"The Pope is one, it is Francis" --Emeritus Benedict XVI

Free Market

It ain't a market, and it ain't free.

Savvy the bees
baptized in pollen,
dusted in gold.

They have taught me
the lottery
of dust, with zero
to zero odds.

They have taught me
the labourer's
dust is gold,
and the idler's gold

is dust.

Really now

Down tempo flying saucer hub cap analog drive across Canada in an old wagon of hope with wheel wells like Mars and loose tape distortion street beat bringing me back to younger days watching Rick Hansen on the CBC churning his wheels with outsize arms across the world and Terry Fox and Expo 86 and French Canadian Sesame Street and that guy - I don't who he was - who would take you to all his childhood neighbourhood haunts, empty playgrounds, clean sward and chain link, leap up on something very casually and very freely, and say this is where I used to play...etc. simple and seared in my mind. You will not capture Sasquatch on digital. Don't even try.

Masters of belief

check one more box off their list of quantifiable discount Catholic items to master.

Because, as we all know, belief in the Eucharistic true presence is so reducible and quantifiable, and the belief doesn't return in correspondent gratitude to the One who gives it to begin with, and expands it.

It's a dead object to possess and a right of entry that, once possessed, leaves you in total comfort and never calls you forward in faith.

B. Barron is angry!

I'm sure we can look forward to a new survey showing that 1/3 of professing Catholics ultimately believe in the Dogma of Statistics and choose to follow the Beast who reduces to numbers.

Huh, imagine that.