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• Review: "Congress of the Animals... [is] Woodring's second book-length Frank story. Not so overtly horrific as last year's Weathercraft, but somehow more unsettling to me. Perhaps I'm just traumatized by the destruction of Frank's house. Fantastic wordless storytelling, as always." – M. Ace, Irregular Orbit
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Time to throw in the towel? UPDATE
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels January 23, 2014 - 1:43pm
East Side Catholic, widely covered on dotCommonweal, made it big today: Front Page treatment by the NYTimes (print edition, January 23, 2013). Top people at the school have bailed. There is concern about future enrollment and current donors (though the story gives no data). The schools contradictory statements and decisions have it in a tangle. The students are in charge. Story here.
Time to close the school down?
Just for fun: the story is by Michael Paulson, once at the Boston Globe where he shut down Cardinal Law.
UPDATE: Given the direction of the discourse here and other relevant posts, perhaps I should have headlined this post: THE TOWEL WILL BE THROWN IN suggesting that the school is unlikely to survive the controversy, having nothing to do with the bishop or the church's teachings, as such, but with the conclusions, economic and political, of the parents of all the students (protestors and non-protestors as well as next year's applicants).
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Ms. O'Brien Steinfels, feel free to address me by my first name.
This article answers some of your questions.
Mr. Zmuda's marriage appears to have become public about 2 weeks before the firing.
Regarding an order to fire -- this article also offers insight:
Eastside Catholic president Sister Mary Tracy said she discussed Zmuda's case in person with Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain within the last two weeks and they had what she described as a collaborative conversation.
Sartain didn't give her an explicit order to fire Zmuda, Tracy said. Rather, "We were directed to comply with the teachings of the church."
I take that statement on its face. I submit it reveals a failure to act in a more thoughtful, pastoral fashion in this admittedly difficult situation. The Archbishop could have told her to focus on the totality of Catholic teaching, including the Catechism which teaches us that gay people MUST "be accepted with respect, compassion and sensitivity". He could have helped her come up with a different resolution that balanced the less authoritative teachings on this reality civil society calls same-sex marriage.
It is increasingly my belief that Sr. Tracy is someone, if she were permitted to excercise her wisdom, her understanding of the the core of Catholic teaching and her pastoral sensibilities, would have found way to not fire Zmuda. The Archdiocese and Sartain boxed her in.
Since resigning it is reported that Sr. Tracy sent this email:
I look forward to the day when no individual loses their job because they're married to a person of the same sex.
there was something in his contract that he violated.
That's a legal issue. My guess is that the school probably has a legal right to fire him if they want to do that.
But is it the right decision? I'd like to hear the reasoning of the person who made the decision.
Clearly, the Church teaches that sexual activity between persons of the same sex is sinful.
But, absent some other teaching that I've overlooked, that doesn't get you to:
"Church teaching forbids us to have a person in a same-sex marriage as a teacher."
Sartain didn't give her an explicit order to fire Zmuda, Tracy said. Rather, "We were directed to comply with the teachings of the church."
And those teachings are?
Did she understand that she had the option not to fire him?
Mr. Hayes-
I imagine people who think there is a conflict with "teachings of the church" to allow Zmuda to stay look to documents like this:
No doubt that broad swaths of the US Church in its "teaching" role has opted to go whole-hog into the fighting gay civil marriage business.
The question is -- have these teachings become so central that other teachings about acceptance, love and non-discrimination are trumped?
The Church could have taken a different pastoral course here and been far more neutral about same-gender marriage -- the same way it is largely neutral about laws regulating mixed gender civil marriage. The Church rarely weighs in (certainly not with the same resources) on liberalized divorce laws, etc. In specific cases such as Mr. Zmuda's, "Don't Ask Don't Tell" could easily work. Just like a Catholic employer does not and should not asked mixed gender couples if they are using contraception -- a Catholic employer should make no assumptions (certainly ask no questions) about 2 men taking advantage of civil laws which afford them certain legal rights and responsibilities. For all we know, getting married was just a way for two people who care for one another to share resources, pass on property, get health insurance, etc. For all we know, a civillly married gay couple may be following the advice of groups like Courage and living celibate lives. I wonder what the Church would do if someone like Zmuda were to declare - "But for these recent teachings on gay marriage, my same gender spouse and I are committed to Church teachings on sexual practice."
Ms. Steifels - Two things....the comments above about pastoral vs. rigid legalism is exactly why I quoted Francis on annulments and my own opinion that Sartain did not approach this pastorally.
Second, would suggest that the sister's resignation tells lots (yes, you are correct...no public statement that links this directly to Sartain and yes, a good reporter, etc., etc.)
In terms of your last question.....one reported story is that Zmuda was in a group of teachers who were discussing another teacher's plans to marry and the best route to order flowers, etc. Zmuda recommended a business that he and his partner had used....this story then made its way through the staff to the priincipal, etc. (myth or fact - who knows?)
Finally - concede that his employment can be terminated via the interpretation used. Does that make it wise? As I have posted previously, it is a narrow interpretation; it is hypocritical given that other situations even at Eastside also violate that interpretation and yet no action has been taken; it too often is a *don't tell, don't ask* approach (how moral is that?).
sorry for the repeated comments [MOS: repaired] - agree wholeheartedly with Mr. Marth and he also provided the link to the same reporter story that I was remembering.
Sartain like many current US cultural warrior bishops place rigidly imposed law over pastoral common sense and the good of a catholic community. Their *certitude* about same sex marriage reminds many of us about the same *certitude* exhibited for centuries about other non-negoitable issues e.g. slavery, democractic governance, end of the papal states, birth control, etc.
It is a version of our long tradtion of hierarchs acting like the Pharisees.
You wish you had leaders like the Pharisees.
On another note - would ask Sartrain to read John Noonan's book "A Church that can and can not change" - excellent summary by your husband published at NYT on May 22, 2005.
"In ''A Church That Can and Cannot Change,'' Noonan drives home the point that some Catholic moral doctrines have changed radically. History, he concludes, does not support the comforting notion that the church simply elaborates on or expands previous teachings without contradicting them."
OTOH - Mr. Steinfels does appear to ask the same questions you are asking:
"Such denial, still widespread, means that examining change in official teaching -- or what became known in the 19th century as ''development of doctrine'' -- poses two challenges: first, to establish that alterations -- some more than minor -- have unquestionably occurred; and second, to show how they can be reconciled with the church's claim to preach the same essential message Jesus and his disciples did 2,000 years ago, presumably deriving criteria that can help distinguish legitimate evolution in the future from deviations or betrayals."
"Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Liberty reversed a long-held position that ''error has no rights,'' despite the fact that only a few years previously a theologian like John Courtney Murray, the Jesuit whose defense of American separation of church and state laid the groundwork for the decree, had been silenced. This kind of dramatic rehabilitation gives heart, rightly or wrongly, to critics of other teachings, like those on women's ordination or sexual morality."
Yet, he goes on to say:
"But do they offer insights that might aid Catholics in distinguishing legitimate from illegitimate developments in doctrine? In a negative sense, yes. Noonan believes in an unchanging element in Catholic teaching, a core continuity from Jesus to today. But from his cases he can deduce no rules of thumb to determine what falls within this continuity. His cases contravene the organic image of a gradual unfolding of latent truth. Nor does he find that categories like ''unnatural'' or ''intrinsic evil,'' meant to sort out the immutable from the mutable, make solid sense of past changes."
"He insists that genuine development arises from experience deepened by empathy. ''That your love abound more and more in knowledge and in insight of every kind so that you test what is vital,'' St. Paul wrote, and Noonan repeatedly refers to this linking of love, knowledge and insight. He closes with St. Augustine's rule of faith: a true understanding of divine revelation is one that will ''build up that double love of God and of neighbor.''
As Murray said well - *development of doctrine is the underlying truth of Vatican II"....if only the current episcopate understood that...guess we continue to wait and see when Vatican II will be truly tried and lived.
Thank you Mr. Rosenzeig! Your comment deserves its own posting.
How I long for a leader in my Church today with the wisdom of a Pharisee such as Gamaliel.
"Their swimming lessons?"
I thought the "S" in MOS stood for Steinfels, but I see that it is Snarky.
The lesson I mentioned above and I'll repeat here: "Morality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Micromanaged "religion" is doing what you are told, no matter what is right."
The days of the Catholic schools goal of turning out good little unthinking automoton parrots are long gone, as they should be.
1) Do others concur with Mr. Pauwels' claim that the protests are dominated by girls?
2) I think it is misogynistic and condescending to "psychologize" these students' actions on the basis of some conjectured crush. If I were them, I would be even less inclined to listen to adults poo-pooing their actions.
Ms. Steinfels - think I know what and where you are going with your psychology but really - you sound like the recent Governor Huckaboo *libido and government sugar* comments.
Given what I exerienced and saw in Joliet (Sartain), your conjecture about *his caught in the middle* rings hollow. That is what pastoral leadership is about; not taking orders.
And to think in the 1970s - Hunthausen (must be rolling over in his grave)
MOS: for liberals (or anyone) to think in a manner with which you do not agree is not the same as unthinking.
Bill: Archbishop Hunthausen is retired, not dead.
At ninety-two, Archbishop Hunthausen lives in retirement in Helena, his diocese of ordination and where he served as bishop from 1962 to 1975 before his appointment as archbishop of Seattle. He attended all four sessions of the Council and is the only survivor among the bishops of US dioceses, ordinaries and auxiliaries, who were present at Vatican II.
Margaret O'Brien Steinfels wrote:
Jim McCrea: Now we are blessed with little unthinking liberals!
BTW, that was not a snarky remark, but a social-psychological observation playing off Jim Pauwels comment about the photos of Mr. Z's girl supporters. Why not have a crush on your swimming teacher who happens to be gay. You can flirt all you want without fear of harrassment. Perhaps too vulgar an observation for you, but is it mistaken?
Really? -- "little unthinking liberals". For someone searching for more evidence of Sartain's true role here and Sr. Tracy's true motivations this is remarkable for its sweeping generalization with no evidence to support it. Is it possible there are some students who simply got swept into the cool thing to do? -- no doubt. But it is also seems almost certain there are some really smart, thoughtful young men and women at Eastside who decided this was something that deserved a strong and well thought out response. I have the opportunity to spending some time with young men and women in Catholic schools in NYC and I know many who are dedicated, smart and well-instilled with tools of rational ethical analysis. They are mature and understand complexities of situations like this. Some of them could be categorized as liberal and some conservative. (BTW, I am certain there are students at Eastside involved in these protests who hold many other positions that would clearly be categorized as conservative. Don't assume just because they support this "liberal" protest, they endorse other "liberal" ideas.) I am sure students like the ones I know here in NYC exist at Eastside. It gives me great hope.
Harassment (sexual and otherwise) has little or nothing to do with orientation. What makes you think a gay male adult is incapable of harassing a female high school student? So yes -- I think you are very mistaken.
Conversely to assume young women at Eastside are involved in this movement because of a crush is as others have suggested, misogynist.
Finally -- do we really want to base any analysis of this situation on a superficial review of the faces seen in a few photos? Is there really any basis for this idea that more young women at Eastside are involved?
Finally -- do we really want to base any analysis of this situation on a superficial review of the faces seen in a few photos?
I don't.
Margaret - if Catholic education doesn't survive, I think it will primarily be because the basic business model doesn't work: religious sisters and brothers no longer staff the faculties at paltry wages (talk about slave labor!) and governments do very little to subsidize Catholic schools. In that unpromising economic landscape, Eastside seems like the kind of place that would survive, i.e. it seems to be in an upscale community (two seconds of Googling inform me that average household income is $100K+, and average home value is $500K+), in a relatively affluent part of the country. A lot of parents presumably can afford to pay full tuition and it's likely that there is a donor base of alumni and community members.
I doubt the now-resigned principal (or was she school president?) made the decision to fire Zmuda without the consultation and approval of the school board. Didn't the chairman also resign? Based on her post-resignation comment, I doubt her heart was in the firing. Maybe she resigned to remove what became an unresolvable conflict between her professional responsibilities and her personal views, as much as or more than whatever editorials are appearing in the Seattle newspaper.
Regarding Sartain: unless some more evidence is forthcoming, I don't suppose that his fingerprints are all over this firing, except to the extent that he pretty clearly signaled to the school board that if they fired Zmuda, he'd support that decision. Eastside is independent of the archdiocese. I'd be surprised if there isn't at least one diocesan priest on the school board; but if diocesan priests in Seattle are anything like the ones in Chicago, they aren't simple rubber-stamps or proxies for the bishop. Overall, I think the most straightforward way to understand the situation, and the way that is supported by the evidence we have, is that the school principal and school board made a controversial decision, basically on their own responsibility, and are now under fire for it.
"On unthinkingness:
Jim McCrea "The days of the Catholic schools goal of turning out good little unthinking automoton parrots are long gone, as they should be."
Jim McCrea: "to think in a manner with which you do not agree is not the same as unthinking."
So which is it?"
How does one of those statements contradict the other?
Abe Rosenzweig: Re: "Conjectured Crushes, see Evolutionary Psychology and Psycholog Today
The PT article seems to be on the level of Dr. Oz. The EP one made the rounds last year, and I read it then; it doesn't seem to have anything to it that is relevant to schoolgirl crushes on gay men. Neither article seems to support that reading of the situation. Plus, if you want to chalk this outcry up to some girls with a crush, you'd have to ignore the basic fact that teens are just more and more supportive of marriage equality.
In Hosanna-Tabor (which we considered in another thread) the Supreme Court decided that a church s has the right to appoint its ministers (or something like that), and (as I remember it) the decision viewed at least some teachers a ministers, and the Court decided that the church alone can decide whether or not a teacher is a minister.
It seems to me that these principles are perhaps the ones guiding the decision whether to terminate Mr. Z's employment. Implicit in the school's act seems to be the assumption that he is being a dissenting minister by teaching the students something contrary to Church belief and, therefore, he may not be a teacher in the school..
But does a civilly legal violation of a practice really *teach* the students something contrary to the Church's beliefs? I gather that Mr. Z. is not trying to persuade his students in class that the teaching of the Church is wrong. He is not a religion teacher or even a Humanities teacher in which the subject of gay marriage would likely become a topic. So I don't see how you can say he is a minister teaching the students a dissenting belief.
Perhaps the administration wants to hold that he is *showing* (by making the fact public) that he disputes the Church teaching, and I think that this is true -- he is doing that. But I do not think that that constitutes being a teacher who is dissenting minister of the Church. People say and show their dissent from Church teachings all the time (e.g., contraception, capital punishment), but those people aren't fired for speaking their non-authoritative mind. Why should Mr. Z be treated differently?
The days of the Catholic schools goal of turning out good little unthinking automoton parrots are long gone, as they should be.
Jim M.,
I was in Catholic high school in those long gone days, and I never heard that goal announced. (Well, I suppose anybody would be sly about something like that.) It's true that teachers weren't eager to field questions or hold debates on Catholic doctrine, especially if they had any aroma of dissent about them. And children, even teenagers, "knew their place." But it wasn't a time for questioning on much of anything in America. The Feminine Mystique was still several years in the future, and "Father Knows Best" and "love, honor, and obey" were the proffered models for womanly comportment. Jackie Robinson was playing for the Dodgers, and Rosa Parks had taken a seat, but the fire storm of the civil rights era was still a mere glimmer on the horizon, and "Colored" signs were still for sale in Southern hardware stores. Stonewall and Gay Pride and the great coming out in response to the AIDS epidemic were unimaginable still, and no one in the world was talking about, or probably even thinking about, same-sex marriage. The Supreme Court struck down anti-sodomy laws less than eleven years ago.
I am still amazed when I contemplate the breadth and speed of the changes I have lived through. With all our quarrelsomeness and turmoil and folly, I think we are a better people, more truly alive, more truly human than we were when I was young. And I give a fair share of the credit to those not so devious or benighted teachers in high school who helped mold me for this new world.
Rita Ferrone wrote: If the students don't believe the school ought to follow Church teaching and the principal and staff doesn't either, the jig is up. They ought to found an independent Christian school, where the policies will reflect what their consciences demand.
It is different to doubt, to question Church teaching. I see no questions here, though, only certitude that the Church's teaching is wrong, that it is unjust to uphold it, and that it must be resisted wherever it occurs. It's a situation of seige and demand for an unconditional surrender. The principal resigned in the face of it.
That makes an assumption that the school doesn't want to follow Church teaching.
I have been trying (without much success) to address a much more limited issue, which runs like this,
- Even if you accept and support the Church's teaching that sexual activity beween people of the same sex is sinful,
- Even if you accept the 2003 CDF "CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS" as teaching that you may not support the legalization of same sex marriages,are you obligated to fire Mr Zmuda? Or is that a prudential decision for you [the school aithorities] to make?
So far, I think it is a prudential decision. In that case, you can argue that the school made the wrong decision without denying either of the two teachings I listed above.
Does anyone know of a Church teaching that says that a person in a same-sex marriage cannot teach in a Catholic school? The CDF document doesn't say that.
If it is a prudential decision, I think it's a great teaching opportunity for the school to explain its reasoning in arriving at that decision.
Sorry, a paragraph break got lost.
- Even if you accept the 2003 CDF "CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS" as teaching that you may not support the legalization of same sex marriages,are you obligated to fire Mr Zmuda? Or is that a prudential decision for you [the school aithorities] to make?
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- Even if you accept the 2003 CDF "CONSIDERATIONS REGARDING PROPOSALS TO GIVE LEGAL RECOGNITION TO UNIONS BETWEEN HOMOSEXUAL PERSONS" as teaching that you may not support the legalization of same sex marriages,
are you obligated to fire Mr Zmuda? Or is that a prudential decision for you [the school authorities] to make?
I never went to a traditional Catholic high school: I went to 3 years of minor seminary in the late 1950s. No one can accuse THAT system of fostering critical thinking skills, at least not the one in the upper midwest that I attended! My last year was spent in a public high school which was marginally better at teaching one HOW and WHY to think.
Maybe some of the more traditional Catholic high schools were better at that, but I need to see proof of that. Again, I'm basing my experiences on the 1950s, the hey days of trimphal Catholicism in the US.
Grade school? Nope. Memorize and parrot back the catechism EXACTLY as written. Ditto for most other classes. The nuns I had were good but were also victims of the academic philosophy and milieu of those times.
Thank God I found the Jesuits in college!
Correction, Jim M. You don't find Jesuits. Jesuits find you. :-)
'It's true that teachers weren't eager to field questions or hold debates on Catholic doctrine, especially if they had any aroma of dissent about them."
John Prior ==
I don't doubt that this was true of boys schools, but I wonder if it was equally true in girls high schools. I remember, for instance, arguing in class in favor of the theory of evolution. Finally, dear old Sr. Vincent replied, "Well, maybe your grandfather was an ape, but mine wasn't". End of discussion :-) But she never held my argumentativeness against me -- she even invited me to be a nun! (No chance.) And I wasn't the only one who argued.
I suspect that the nuns' relative openness to argumentation in my day was strengthened in more recent decades -- and this is the reason why so many nuns are in trouble with the Vatican today and so few priests are. It also might be one reason why the Vatican is pathologically afraid of women -- they know our tendency to speak out.
It looks like maybe a priest "from the other end of the Earth" (one who even loved to tango!) will be the one who forces the Vatican elders to take a look at the reality of women.
Ms. S. --
I strongly suspect that American Catholicism to the west of the lower Appalachian Mountains isn't exactly the same thing as American Catholicism on the East Coast.
Ann O.,
Judging from Sr. Vincent's reply to you, I'd say she was arguing that you and she were two different species, so it's really a question of taxonomy.
By the late 50s, there were still some holdouts, at least among elderly clergy, but I think the Church had largely, if warily, accepted evolution of the human body, though not the soul. You are probably right that even then nuns were not as troubled by interesting questions as some priests may still be. The secret, I think, is to frame the desired answer as a hypothetical: "I'm certainly not saying, Your Excellency, that the earth revolves around the sun. But see how that wholly fictitious model simplifies calculations."
Thus in the Eastside case, "Certainly, it would have been a grave matter if these two men had somehow contrived to marry each other. But it is the constant and unchangeable teaching of the Church that marriage is a union between one man and one woman. Therefore, by definition, the two gentlemen could not have entered into it. As for their living together, it is well to assume that they are engaged in a program of collaborative scholarship. Let us implore Mr. Z. to return to his duties at Eastside in all honor, and we shall let the holy mist of forgetfulness settle over this unhappy time."
A little good will and centuries of careful phrasing will solve almost any problem. We are all part of that tradition.
John @ 3:30 am, you really have a flair for this sort of thing! Did you say Jesuits trained you? Wow, I wonder if even they could have come up with a response so cool. :)
"Correction, Jim M. You don't find Jesuits. Jesuits find you. :-)"
That's truer than you realize. My father had 2 first cousins (I guess I should say that I had 2 second cousins) who were Jebbies and they greased the necessary skids for me to sail into a Jesuit university in the upper Midwest in spite of the fact that my less-than-desirable high school education lacked a few of the necessary underpinnings to ensure admission.
It was upon matriculation, and only then, that I realized how poorly I had been educated in high school/minor seminary, and how much of a struggle life was going to be until I graduated. Critical thinking? I hadn't a clue what that meant, but I could parrot back in good automoton fashion what I had been told. The SJs painfully disabused me THAT practice in short order.
Yes, Rita, I owe a good deal to the Jesuits, though I fall well short of their hopes for those they teach. Yet I think they might say in all modesty that smoothing over difficulties with finely tailored words and arguments is not a practice that started with them, however much they have improved it.
Jim M.,
I was walking home from school with an eighth-grade classmate, and we were talking about high schools we might apply to. He mentioned a Jesuit high school that he had been told was very good. I had never heard of it, no adult had provided any counsel at that point, and Jesuits were only a rumor to me. Solely on the word of a twelve-year-old, I applied to it and was admitted.
Mysterious ways.
John Prior - I *love* stories like that. Particularly only a day after the story of the first disciples being called was proclaimed at Sunday mass.
If there's a prize for comparing small things with great, Jim P., you've won it. :-) But maybe they are all cut from the same cloth.
are you obligated to fire Mr Zmuda?
JH: I think the critical fact is that people also teach by how they behave. You know, Do as I say, not as I do - doesnt really work.
John P - they absolutely are. Simple words, spoken at the right time, have the power to change our lives.
The scene has now shifted to Massachusetts. No students demonstrating, so far:
BOSTON (AP) — A Roman Catholic school rescinded a job offer after finding out its prospective hire was married to another man, the applicant alleged in a complaint filed with the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination on Thursday.
Matthew Barrett, 43, of Boston, said he landed his dream job when Fontbonne Academy in Milton hired him as food services director last July. He went through three interviews and gave notice at his other job the same day as the offer.
But the offer was rescinded two days later when the head of school realized Barrett had listed his spouse as his emergency contact.
''She said the Catholic religion doesn't recognize same-sex marriage, and that was her excuse. She said, 'We cannot hire you,''' Barrett told The Boston Globe.
the school mission statement says:
Fontbonne Academy, sponsored by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Boston, is a Catholic, college preparatory high school for young women. Fontbonne Academy fosters Gospel values and educational excellence. This inclusive community embraces diversity in many forms. Through the values of respect, responsibility, reconciliation and reverence, Fontbonne Academy promotes growth in spirituality, scholarship, and leadership of young women in the changing world.
they say that graduates have a 100% acceptance rate into four-year colleges.
Well, they are just being prudent. I'm pretty sure that Catholic school students normally turn first to the food services director for spiritual counsel. Besides, he might serve the girls a lesbian omelet.
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If I don't stop drawing to these inside straights, they'll never let me be Captain!
Besides infringement, I dont get it. Its a trap, yes. "Noooo" is not a meme. Facepalm, yeah. Aces? Do I need to be a picard/trek fan to "get it"?
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That ace is a black diamond! Never seen that before!
Wow, congrats stardamsel! A really amazing blend of characters and memes
Things have just not been going well for Ackbar lately: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jx0pTIDb-r0
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Can't read Vader's Pokerface Po-Po-Pokerface.
I guess this settles the whole "Star Wars v Star Trek" debate.
aoviss wrote:Besides infringement, I dont get it. Its a trap, yes. "Noooo" is not a meme. Facepalm, yeah. Aces? Do I need to be a picard/trek fan to "get it"?
Yeah, I was wondering if I missed something as well, seeing as I neither watch Star Trek, nor play poker.
For some reason I completely forgot today was Friday so I was really confused when I saw a derby shirt. Brain fart. I'm okay now, though, I promise. >.> <.<
How does Darth Vader even drink that coke bottle thingy?!
I can't believe this actually won. Epic. In for one. Also, otterific that the artist is also from Slidell, LA (like me). What are the odds?
Really, he had 3 aces and a king... we just couldn't get Jean Luc to see reason: There... are... FOUR... lights!
Star Wars + Star Trek = universally irresistible to voters. Mind you, I'm a Trek Classic type myself.
Is this the episode where they go in to a time-loop playing poker and DataVader has to send a message to himself through the time vortex to alert the crew that they're in a time loop?
Wow...did not think this was going to garner first place. I thought for sure that "Recycle Your Memes" would have taken the top spot in this derby, easily. Congrats.
Reference: NOOOOOOOOO! It's a Trap!
aoviss wrote:"Noooo" is not a meme.
But later will he admit that there may have been five aces? This shirt is truly epic.
It's a sad derby indeed when the top vote-getter has less than 800. Looking forward to next week's derby.
It's a funny t-shirt, but I remember back in the day when the derby entries had to get over 1,000 votes to win. Ah well, still a pretty funny shirt, but I'm broke for a little while. Maybe on the reckoning chart.
phantom240 wrote:I can't believe this actually won. Epic. In for one. Also, otterific that the artist is also from Slidell, LA (like me). What are the odds?
"Never tell me the odds!" - Han Solo
Assassin15 wrote:How does Darth Vader even drink that coke bottle thingy?!
I find your lack of faith disturbing, and it looks like whiskey.
The Geeky Is Strong With This One.
Needs more Shatner. Congrats, Stardamsel! I'm so happy to see you print! I think this was one of the most clever entries for the meme mashup. Very good show!
On the one hand, I like Star Wars. On the other, I don't like Star Trek. The problem is, this shirt is a giant billboard that screams NERD. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I get it, but it just isn't funny. Maybe better if they were teamed up against each other playing Pictionary, or maybe Scattergories.
I'm SO tired of seeing the "It's a trap!" internet meme. It's so tired and played out.
Do I have anyone who wants to bet when it will sell out? Star Trek + Star Wars + woot! = sell out
While I understand the Star Wars half of it, I neither watch Star Trek nor play poker... am I missing something?
Two Star Trek dudes at one table, I think something is fishy and it's not the Admiral.
Wait...is Picard hiding a 5th ace in his left hand?
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Buonvino wrote:Wow...did not think this was going to garner first place. I would have thought for sure that "Recycle Your Memes" would have taken the top spot in this derby, easily. Congrats.
Are you kidding? Nothing can stop the Vader!
Four aces is a Star Trek reference, kind of meme-ish. NOOOOOOO is kinda a meme since the Chinese subtitle version had the English say "OH GOD, THEY CAN SEE ME!". Facepalm is there. IT'S A TRAP is there.
That does not look like tea (Earl Grey, hot) that Picard is drinking.
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As you might guess, this guest stint is the result of a challenge. I just hope my entry goes better than my day. Let me explain.
Ann hates Kansas. Well, perhaps that is too harsh, but she's been here, (and thinks) she's done that. And she's a firm believer in the stereotype that Kansas is pre-Aquinas/Copernicus/Galileo/Columbus, that is f-l-a-t, FLAT. And boring, she adds. Even though this is my first trip to the sunflower state, I set sail for the Orient, that is, to prove it wasn't flat, or something like that. I thought I had the courage to tackle the challenge her view of Kansas. OK, enough with the analogy, I present our day:
Not 5 miles from our departure point in Manhattan, we came across a "scenic overlook." Unfortunately, it was neither. See picture.
OK, not to be deterred, we started to discuss what excursions to take off of I-70. We settled on "The Garden of Eden" -- one man's visionary art, or so the sign claimed. We took a tour to see behind the curtain of one man's work/art/hobby/passion/insanity. (The tour consisted of 5 minutes of words from a disinterested teenager.) At the age of 64, S.P. Dinsmoor took to working in cement around his house. When his wife protested that she didn't get to see him enough because of his work, he sculpted a rough depiction of himself waving and set it so that she could see it from the kitchen window. Then back to his art. It all started w/Adam and Eve, and went on to include some other biblical scenes before engulfing his entire yard, surrounding the house, and tackling many socio-political issues. Most notably, he appeared to have a special rage for big business. See the pictures. He died some 75 years ago, but his body rests in a cement chamber he built -- glass encassed just like he wanted. And yes, we saw his remains. Along with us were 3 girls in their teens, one of whom reacted "Oh, Dang!" to seeing the artist formerly known as S.P. Dinsmoor. Some might say he lost his brain, but it was, well, something quintessentially american. (Rock), Chalk (Jayhawk) one up for Kansas -- you don't see that kind of place everyday. Study those pictures for your own inspiration and remember it's never too late to unleash the inner social commentary.
Next we stopped at the Cathedral of the Plains (St. Fidelis) in Victoria. Heck, it was Victoria. When it opened, it claimed to be the largest church west of the Mississippi. I guess they thought all those Irish immigrants that were coming at the time would just keep coming. Didn't look like it, so the place is a bit out of place, but impressive still. Those yellow bricks are local limestone and it looks well maintained.
Next, I played the history card. We took our longest detour of the trip -- some 100 miles roundtrip -- straight south to Fort Larned Nat'l Historic Site, a frontier fort that protected the Santa Fe Trail in the late 1800s. Barrack buildings, a pretty tall flag post, a cannon, even a volunteer in period garb couldn't elicit much enthusiasm from Ann for the state. And you'll see even Abby couldn't muster her usual joy at being in a NPU (nat'l park unit). Though both did their best to play along w/ my fun. See pictures.
Upon return to I-70, it was exit stage right. Of course that meant 100 or so miles and being threatened by a wicked storm from the west, a wall of a thunderstorm (hail, rain, and wind -- didn't see any twisters). And to top it off, Kansas even threw two actual real life tumbleweeds at us over the last couple of miles. We rode it all out along the road and entered Colorado. But don't think Rockies just yet; this part of CO is flatter and straighter than anything in KS, but go figure, Ann didn't mind so much.
The scorecard:
Distance: thanks to that long detour, we finished at an even 500 miles for the day, though you wouldn't guess it looking at the map. Covered Kansas and entered Colorado (state # eight).
NP Stamps: Fort Larned NHS; Santa Fe Nat'l Trail
Scenic Beauty: not so much. (Though Mr. Dinsmoor might say that depends on the beholder.)
Spirituality: some
The bizarre: off the charts! Go Kansas!
Abby meltdowns: nothing that qualifies, I guess her heart wasn't in it today
Staying over: Stratton, CO
Final call on Kansas: ?? inconclusive; it'd be a tough sell to get Ann back
Yesterday's answer was Fort Riley. Credit goes to Andy. (Night night, niece!)
Question: Russell, Kansas boasts that it is the boyhood home of what current US Senator?
PS: Not making today's cut was a visit to the "largest ball of twine in the world." It is in Kansas, and was within striking distance. I know, I apologize to you the reader. In our defense, we thought long and hard about it, really twisted ourselves up in knots over it, but in the end decided it would have changed the way we look at twine. And that's too much to ask. But alas, for you twine dreamers (and really, isn't the largest ball of twine the perfect meaningless roadside attraction) out there, we have not spoiled it for you. We say to you, stop looking for it in blogs, look within, then hit the road and find your own ball of twine, whatever that may be. There's no place to start like home.
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Trip plans were pretty clear until today -- wanted to see the Arch, wanted to travel across Kansas -- but now our plans are more open. Probably will head through Denver and take an easier day, that is, stopping in Colorado, perhaps the Vail Valley area along I-70. We'll see.


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Sounds like a good idea to me. We've all known that Linux has game engines, but besides Blender (and maybe others I'm not aware of), we're a bit lacking in game creation tools.
Sounds great! I'm not a fan of Torque 3D's Scripting language (would much prefer C# or Lua), but it's great to hear there's a chance of a pro game editor being ported.
This is pretty cool. Torque might not be cutting edge, but it's a hell of a lot better than what Linux has had so far. Some fun indie games came from Torque back in the day, and maybe this'll revitalize it enough to give us a few more.
Too bad Open Source is still incapable of producing something on par with even this (much less Unreal 4, Unity, CryTek, Unigine, Frostbite, or even idTech) and has to wait for corporations to cast off old commercially-dead technology in order to get good game engines and tools, and then has to raise funds in order to port the already Open Source codebase to the de facto Open Source platform of choice. This announcement is one small step forward for Linux nerds and one giant step backwards for proving the viability of FOSS gaming.</grouchy-nay-saying>
I have always been pretty impressed with the Ogre3D engine. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obWkjRIVvBQ Mind you, a lot of the 'failure' by Open Source is the artwork, not the source code. MineCraft became hugely popular, but it's not like it's 3D engine or it's artwork is particular good, it was all about the game play. Most Open Source games have the game play down. Unfortunately finding good artists that'll work for free is difficult.


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73% of online shoppers say they have bought online for pickup at stores and other locations, and another 10% are interested, an IMRG report ...
People use social media to browse, to get inspiration, and, increasingly to buy. And when they buy, they buy big.
With 80% of U.S. adults shopping online these days, e-commerce has undoubtedly transformed shopping habits, fueled disruptive companies and changed the world.
With the rise of social media, social commerce—e-commerce that involves social media—has exploded, with Facebook and Pinterest leading the way. But is social traffic valuable and hence worth the investment by e-commerce companies? We say a qualified yes. In sampling revenue data from some of the e-commerce sites that Science has incubated, we discovered that the value of each social traffic transaction is higher than that of e-mail and search traffic.
E-mail and search outperformed social in conversion and yield (revenue/visit), with our results similar to a report from web marketing firm Monetate, which came in at .59% for social compared to 4.25% and 2.49% for e-mail and search in the second quarter of 2012. However, the value of social was greater. Social has about a $10 edge on e-mail and more than $25 in search (40% and 250% respectively!).
We also discovered that some social media sites are better than others at converting social traffic into monetary transactions. Comparing Facebook to Pinterest, the two largest social media sites to date, the driver of higher transaction value is Pinterest.
Pinterest has captured a lot of media attention recently as a driver of traffic to e-commerce sites. BizRate's study revealed that 70% of Pinterest users use the site to "get inspiration on what to buy." Monetate found that referral traffic from Pinterest was up 2535% year over year and now makes 26% of all social traffic, compared to to 1% at the end of 2011.
The hype is deserved, to a certain degree. Pinterest's conversion rate, as per our data, is the lowest across all traffic sources. Despite having the lowest conversion, it has the highest revenue/transaction, $54.09, almost 5x that of search and more than double that of e-mail and even Facebook.
Optimizing Pinterest referrals can bring in valuable customers. So while the excitement over Pinterest has yet to turn into high yields, there is real potential for Pinterest to be a valuable marketing tool for e-commerce businesses.
Search and e-mail traffic remain dominant but social traffic must be a key part of any future e-commerce strategy. People use social media to browse, to get inspiration, and, increasingly to buy. And when they buy, they buy big.
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The Artists' Studio in the Foothills (ASiF) will host its third annual Art of Love show, featuring love-themed artworks, poetry, workshops and performance art. The art center invites the public to celebrate an Art of Love reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday.
The gallery will feature a juried exhibition of more than 40 Nevada County artists' love-themed paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, photography and mixed-media art works. An anonymous local patron has once again gifted ASiF Gallery $1,000 in prize money for a people's choice awards ceremony in which guests at the event will vote for "Best love-themed artworks." Prize winners will receive $500 for first prize, $300 for second, and $200 for third prize!
To kick off the event on the afternoon of the opening reception, ASiF's Mud Hut art instructor, Denise Wey, invites couples to get creative in a special love-themed clay art workshop from 4 to 6 p.m. in the ceramic studio. The artists reception will begin at 5 p.m. in the main gallery, where guests can enjoy a glass of wine and love-themed refreshments. At 6 p.m., Nevada County poets will present love-themed poetry readings in the community classroom. And at 8 p.m., guests are invited to step outside to celebrate the Art of Love event finale in the center's west-side parking lot with a fire-dancing performance by members of Beyond Fire Tribe!
Love as a theme has been explored throughout the ages by artists of every kind — poets, musicians, dancers, playwrights, painters and sculptors — all know well the ways in which simple words fail to convey love's true message. Each year for Valentine's Day, the lovers of the world find themselves in search of special cards, gifts, charms, poems and love songs to thrill and inspire their sweethearts. This year, ASiF invites the public to consider Friday as a special date night, bring your sweetie to ASiF's event for an absolutely unique and creative experience that's all about love.
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A Georgia couple returned home recently to find that someone had driven a truck into the side of their house.
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In this Dec. 20, 2010, file photo, evangelist Billy Graham is interviewed at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. The evangelist turns 95 today. / Nell Redmond, AP
ASHEVILLE, N.C. - At 95 and in frail health, Billy Graham often resists family entreaties to make excursions from his mountaintop home. But the nation's most famous evangelist attended a birthday celebration Thursday night that featured hundreds of well-wishers and what is being characterized as his final sermon.
In a video that was recorded over the past year, Graham delivered his familiar message about the saving power of Jesus Christ and expressed concern about the nation's direction. "Our country's in great need of a spiritual awakening," he declared. "There have been times that I've wept as I've gone from city to city and I've seen how far people have wandered from God."
Graham, white-haired and heavier-set now than he once was, was brought into the ballroom in a wheelchair. Instead of speaking from the dais, he addressed the crowd through the half-hour film. It included photos and clips that underscore his ministry's intersection with decades of American life and politics, showing him alongside presidents (John F. Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton) as well as with Martin Luther King Jr., Pope John Paul II - and Johnny Carson.
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"This will be my father's last message to the nation," Franklin Graham said in an interview with USA TODAY before the celebration began. "He won't be able to do this again."
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"In the 70s, she would tune into the Billy Graham crusades, televised. My mom was raised Catholic, and she ... was yearning for something more," she said. "His invitation for people to know that they could have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ - my mom understood that from the way that he could articulate it. She became a Christian, led the rest of the family to Christ, and that I believe transformed our family."
Franklin Graham, CEO of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, says his father's mind is clear but his energy often wanes. "Sometimes I try to get him out to get a hamburger, just to get him out of the house," he says, persisting when his father demurs. "He'll look at me half-disgusted and say, 'Wait until you turn 95.' "
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If the Cardinals are to become the first team to win three World Series in this century and capture their second title in three years, they will have to beat the Red Sox twice on the road at Fenway Park.
The Cardinals were on the brink of elimination once before in the postseason when it fell behind the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1 in the best-of-five National League Division Series. However, rookie Michael Wacha took a no-hitter into the eighth inning as he pitched St. Louis to victory in Game 4 at Pittsburgh then the Cardinals won at home in Game 5.
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