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  1. At least one and perhaps as many as two already have. Cardinal Donald Wuerl of D.C. and the papal nuncio (ambassador) to the United States are both reportedly missing. Or do you mean "missing" as in the possibility of a RICO indictment would make Italy's finest families too nervous and they start assassinating people? That hasn't happened yet, but the whistleblower has gone into hiding and his testimony refers to the "premature" deaths of two colleagues.
  2. This is getting really ugly, really fast. Edit: I don't know what theory RICO would involve, since child abuse is not a predicate offense. But I'm guessing it involves racketeering. After all, tons of cops and prosecutors looked the other way.
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    Shit My Kid Says

    Since my son is now a high school freshman, I figured it was time for another father-son chat about girls. He hasn't shown much interest thus far, but he's an Aspie and pretty much every guy in the family was a late bloomer when it came to dating. So I'm dropping awesome dad knowledge about not putting it on a pedestal, how it's a numbers game, etc. The talk went on for some time and was mostly one-sided aside from a few shrugs and I-don't-knows. Later that night at dinner, my wife, (his step-mother), asks if he'll be dating this year. "I think I lack the emotional maturity for dating right now." Where was that earlier in the day?
  4. That's not the sequence of events. 1. No later than the early 2000s, senior church leaders became aware of what many American leaders already knew via rumors, that McCarrick was molesting adult seminarians. 2. This finally gets communicated to Pope Benedict around 2009, at which point McCarrick is kicked out of the seminary where he was living and forbidden from lecturing, traveling, and publicly celebrating mass. Except for having to find a new place to live and not celebrating mass in public, McCarrick ignores most of this. 3. After Bergolio is elected Pope Francis, his ally McCarrick ignores any and all restrictions. At this point, it is not clear if Pope Francis lifted the restrictions or they just ignored them. Given the Pope's documented autocratic ruling style, it is likely nothing was formally rescinded. 4. In 2018, there is a credible allegation that McCarrick molested a minor decades ago. Pope Francis publicly re-imposes Benedict's punishments and then strips McCarrick of his red hat, (he's no longer a cardinal). 5. Immediately after McCarrick's punishment, priests, former seminarians, and others launched a Catholic #MeToo movement aimed at the bishops and others in power who permitted the molestation of seminarians. 6. Then the Pennsylvania grand jury report came out. Some of Pope Francis' closest allies, like Cardinal Donald Wuerl of D.C. were implicated in the cover-up to an extent previously unknown. 7. Vigano's letter, while definitely representing traditionalists, probably was encouraged by a number of progressive prelates, like Cardinal Dolan of NYC, who have buyer's remorse with Pope Francis and fear the loss of power an actual schism would bring. And there is a de facto schism that has nothing to do with the abuse scandals.
  5. Can we get a subforum on NSAA for all the divorce and other talk threads?
  6. I agree with you in principle, but I'm with the other poster. There is way too much diversity in practice at employers of varying sizes for there to be a single answer. While we'd like to think that tOSU is closer to your experience than otherwise, academics are notorious for trailing corporate in many areas of risk mitigation.
  7. If you liked the Catholic/religious bits and would like to read more, and ,if you didn’t mind the retconning in the second book and would like even more changes, then Endymion is for you.
  8. At a guess, people who park in their own driveway but far enough back that it blocks the sidewalk. It is illegal many places.
  9. If she spoke like she did in the book, it wouldn't be a problem. Unfortunately, she isn't old, or ugly enough, in the tv show to capture the book version.
  10. Meh. "Gholas. He's welcome to them." If you recognize the quote, you get the point.
  11. I tell my son to text me if it isn't immediately important. I often have DND on my iPhone, so I won't hear texts, but I will hear a phone call. So he's trained to call when the matter needs immediate attention, like needing to be picked up ASAP. My wife doesn't get it.
  12. HIPAA only applies to covered entities and certain associates. Law enforcement is not a covered entity. I had to look into this a few years ago when I got a pharmacy’s old 800-number efax. I reported every medical fax I received to HHS as a HIPAA violation. HHS would always send me a letter thanking me for the report and letting me know that the offender had been punished with remedial training.
  13. Babylon 5 is now free on Prime.
  14. You might want to pick up a copy of the Catechism and the Code of Canon Law. The TL;DR is that the Catholic Church recognizes marriages between two non-Christians as natural marriages. The Church recognizes marriages between two, non-Catholic Christians as sacramental marriages, i.e. the same as a Church wedding between two opposite sex Catholics. Recognition doesn't extend to same-sex unions and polygamous unions. Moreover, despite misleading press accounts, Pope Francis has explicitly said only a heterosexual couple can form a family.
  15. Loot the bodies, quickly dispersing the bones in the process so that, if they reanimate, it will be fucking funny. Most of the guys I know who aren't into sports are into something else, music/family/business/motorcycle club in one case and law/engineering/politics in another. There are probably a few geeks who don't talk about not being into sports who are, in fact, not into sports.
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    Nintendo Switch

    Has anyone bought the new Hyrule Warriors? Any compelling reasons to buy it if you already have the original?
  17. If it’s not college football or TCU, I don’t care until the Mavs or Stars make the playoffs. Stopped caring about pro football when the Cowboys started sucking after the introduction of the salary cap with an exception in 2007 when I was in a fantasy league. Except for the Mavs’ playoff runs, haven’t regularly watched pro basketball since Jordan hung it up the second time. Never cared for baseball much until TCU got really good and they’re the limit of my interest. Never cared for soccer, wrestling, or motor sports. Don’t like it much when people say “sportsball”, because there’s rarely a need to shit on someone else’s interests unless it is causing problems in their lives.
  18. Freakonomics is the name of a book by a Chicago economist (Levitt) and a writer (Dubner). Levitt shot to fame in the late ‘90s for a paper that purported to show that the early ‘90s drop in the crime rate was largely the result of legalizing abortion. Other economists dug into the paper and discovered there were serious issues with the standard error or something like that. Another economist came along at around the same time and published a paper showing that it wasn’t abortion, but decreasing levels of childhood lead exposure. I don’t recall if her paper ran into problems later.
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    Scams

    A few years back, my grandmother got a call from "my cousin" saying that he was in jail in Oklahoma, please don't tell Dad, and please wire money. This guy sounded like my cousin and even knew our informal nickname for my grandmother. She called my uncle instead and learned that my cousin was at work. They tried the same scam using my name a week later, but she called me instead.I was really glad she didn't get taken in.
  20. Your bank may offer a Venmo competitor.
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