This is the circus that passes for our politics. I could unpack this more but will forego such commentary. Nothing will come of such theater one way or the other. Of course, most reporting on what is happening in L.A. is predictably, even woefully, incomplete. As usual, there is a lot going on that is easy enough to find out if you look but that complicates the simplistic narrativeswe have foisted on us day after day. It isn't just theater, it's a particular kind of theater: an annoying morality play. Morality plays are neither complex nor subtle nor interesting.
It would be hard for me to care less about what's on tap for tomorrow, either the upcoming "big" event or the protest against it. In any case, looks like rain.
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What is causing a reconsideration of hardcore immigrant deportation policies are complaints by farmers and those in the hospitality business. Such complaints, which do not seem to be falling on deaf ears, bring into bold relief how important immigrant labor is to the functioning of our economy. This should prompt another attempt at comprehensive immigration reform.
This reform would necessarility include, among other things, a guest worker program. Such a program would protect immigrant laborers and allow certain industries to remain profitable. While securing the border, there are ways to move forward as a country on immigration, even to create a win/win situation. Neither side is inerested in that, this is clear. It is also way I am on neither side.
Today's Friday post is a bit delayed. It's been a busy week. As I am sure you know, there are different kinds of busy. For me this week, it's been the annoying and not terribly productive or enjoyable kinds of busy-ness.
My wife and I did celebrate our thirty-second wedding anniversary. This means we watched So, I Married an Axe Murderer. Apart from that, we kept things pretty low-key.
We love So, I Married an Axe Murderer. It's a fun movie. It also came out the year we were married. We saw it twice at the dollar movies because that was entertainment we could afford at the time. I can't say that we've watched it each and every year of our marriage. We have watched it nearly every year. I still have the CD of the film's soundtrack, which consists of great early nineties music.
I was 27 when we married. So, as of four years ago, I've been married for longer than I was single. I keep waiting for marriage to "get" easy. I have to remind myself that any marriage involving me will likely never be easy.
I also keep waiting to reach that age when I will have things figured out. In the latter case, I am not referring to life's big questions, but merely to those things that pertain to my own life. I am quite certain I will never be a wise man, old or otherwise. I am okay with that. A certain amount of foolishness seems to suit me well.
If I may be permitted to blog about blogging for a moment, I am pretty happy with 2025 thus far in terms of this effort. I am especially happy with the fact that I haven't really missed a Friday traditio and the year is nearly half over! Because today's is so late, I don't admitting that I had to force myself to step up.
I am preparing to lead a series of seven adult study sessions on Pope Saint John Paul II's 1995 encyclical Evangelium vitae. This to mark the encyclical's thirtieth anniversary. I hope to do another series on Pope Francis' Apostolic Letter on liturgical formation, Desiderio desideravi, followed by an Advent study of Isaiah's Servant Songs.
Our traditio for our first Friday back in Ordinary Time (even though today is the Memorial of Saint Anthony of Padua, a Doctor of the Church- a good day to find lost things), which is the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time is from the soundtrack for So, I Married an Axe Murderer. The song? "Long Day in the Universe" by The Darling Buds. In all honesty, the song barely features in the movie, but it's on the album and I like it:
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