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What an enlightening, honest commentary on the hierarchical structure of the Catholic Church. It’s misogyny lead me to leave the Catholic Church in the late 70’s. I continue to try to reconcile my faith with the disillusionment of organized religion. Recently, I have come to realize the profound support the Catholic Church offered my parents as first and second generation Irish Catholic immigrants. In fact, I have this Irish American Magazine to thank for that realization. Though the Cath...

MY EDMONDS NEWS Posted: April 5, 2021 6 April is National Poetry Month, and 2021 marks the 25th annual celebration of poets and poetry. Visit the poets.org site for ways to find and connect with poets and poems. You can sign up to get a poem-a-day in your inbox! There are poems for kids and teens; ways for kids to interact directly with award-winning poets as part of Dear Poet; many poets reading their own work. So much poetry! More poetry-related headlines to hit you with! At age 80, ...

Tue, Apr 6th 2021 12:07pm — Mike Masnick What is it with the NY Times publishing incredibly ridiculously wrong and confused articles and op-eds about Section 230? Its gotten to the point that you have to think that theyre doing it on purpose. Ive covered the NY Times getting 230 wrong (often in totally embarrassing ways) over and over and over and over and over again. And those are just examples from the past two years. Youd think that maybe -- just maybe -- someone at the NY Times would now ...

Three ways out of America’s infodemic.

The year of magical reading: Mark Hodermarsky Updated Mar 07, 2021; Posted Mar 07, 2021 In this Feb. 9, 1964, file photo, the Beatles perform on the CBS "Ed Sullivan Show" in New York. In a guest column today, retired English teacher Mark Hodermarsky lists his pandemic reading favorites, including the "unconventional, charming" and "obsessively pleasing" 2017 Rob Sheffield book, "Dreaming the Beatles." (AP Photo/File)AP Facebook Share By Guest Columnist, cleveland.com OLMSTED FALLS, Ohio -- ...

Kristin Hannah Writes Struggle to Show the Strength of Women “The Four Winds” follows the courage of women surviving in the 1930s Dust Bowl. Kristin Hannah’s new novel, The Four Winds, took on a significant evolution to come to its published form. The narrative journey, set in Texas and California during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl — the period of time in the Southern Plains region of the U.S. when high winds and choking dust swept the country from Texas to Nebraska, killin...

Why BC’s natural gas sector looks so bright By Nelson Bennett | January 29, 2021, 12:38pm Pacific Canbriam uses holding ponds and pipelines to recycle 100% of the water used in its hydraulic fracturing operations in B.C. | Pacific Canbriam The year just passed was one of the worst in decades for Canada’s oil and gas sector. The Petroleum Services Association of Canada reckons the 3,100 oil and gas wells that were estimated to have been drilled in Canada in...

Jan 30, 2021 Sixteen notable writers have created a combined list of places that they believe helped shape and define America, from coastal Oregon and Solvang, California, to Ellis Island and New Hampshire’s Black Heritage Trail. The resulting collection of mini-essays, including contributions from memoirist Cheryl Strayed, novelist Jodi Picoult, humorist David Sedaris and activist Gloria Steinem, was organized by Frommer’s, the travel guidebook company. The collection can be read for free ...

There was no ‘economic anxiety’ among the pro-Trump mob besieging the Capitol, from CEOs to Olympic champions. There was, though, plenty of blatant racism and antisemitism. So why has the liberal media pampered these fascists for so long?

Letter to the NYT Editor After RFK Jrs Niece Gets Platform Denied to Him By Elizabeth Hart, Adelaide Australia To the Editor of The New York Times: Kerry Kennedy Meltzer also admits "Being a doctor does not make me a vaccine expert..." And yet The New York Times provides Kerry Kennedy Meltzer with a soapbox to push her poorly informed views on vaccine safety, and denies Robert Kennedy Jr. a right of reply. What a dire situation we are in now, with people such as Kennedy Meltzer using her cred...