2018 – Postcards

Desegregation in Iran (just a bit)

July 5, 2018 No Comments

For the first time since 1979, women in Iran are allowed to attend a men’s game in a stadium with a mixed crowd. For nearly 40 years, half of Iran’s population was not allowed to go to a stadium to watch soccer, the country’s single most popular sport. The defacto ban, instilled by religious clerics […]

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Catholic Adoption

July 5, 2018 No Comments

In the news, more adoption issues in a case that further illustrates the attitudes and social mores of catholic Ireland as detailed in The God Squad. The fudged adoption papers, un-vetted placement, obfuscation and misdirection of the supposed Sisters of Charity is sadly unsurprising yet still awful to read: His client became pregnant shortly before her […]

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Read: The God Squad

July 3, 2018 No Comments

The God Squad is the remarkable true story of a survivor, told with an extraordinary lack of bitterness for one so shockingly and shamefully treated. In Paddy Doyle’s own words: ‘It is about a society’s abdication of responsibility to a child. The fact that I was that child, and that the book is about my […]

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Dalmatia’s fjaka state of mind

January 19, 2018January 19, 2018 No Comments

What a beautiful description of a state of being, languishing in the Mediterranean sun: The Croatian poet Jakša Fiamengo said that fjaka is a specific state of mind and body. “It is like a faint unconsciousness,” he wrote, “a state beyond the self or – if you will – deeply inside the self, a special […]

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Desegregation in Iran (just a bit)

Catholic Adoption

Read: The God Squad

Dalmatia’s fjaka state of mind

Year: 2018

Desegregation in Iran (just a bit)

Catholic Adoption

Read: The God Squad

Dalmatia’s fjaka state of mind