Isn't Friedersdorf a member of Ricochet? Why are you addressing him like this?

And the Romans conquered and kept a military presence in the Levant to check the Parthians.  There are advantages and disadvantages of having imperial policies.  Personally, I think the disadvantages outweigh the advantages.

Denise, I know you aren't Catholic, so you are in no danger of being a cafeteria Catholic, but let me just add that a Catholic who is only, as you would say, "socially conservative", but whose heart is hardened when asked to be in solidarity with those who are suffering, is a cafeteria Catholic. 

Thankfully, I haven't encountered any Catholics, who agree with the Church on life (abortion, ssm, euthanasia, etc.) but dissent on social justice.

Conservatives may not like the teachings of social justice because many conservatives are, let's say, financially "comfortable."  The Gospel calls me to share my blessings, and I, especially I, find this difficult because I have many blessings like a stable family, citizenship in a free, prosperous country, decent mental capacity, and health.  When one does not have these blessings, one is prone to poverty.  The Gospel, and therefore the Church, asks me to share my blessings with those who have not been blessed in this way.  This is true social justice.  True redistribution according to God's will. 

If a Catholic thinks he is doing his duty for social justice by casting a vote for a Obama (or Romney), they are sorely misguided.

Sorry, this is a silly argument.  People are entitled to feel however they want about someone's death.  I should have kept my thought to myself.

To answer your question:  I don't know.  I figure everyone was once child. 

Well hold on, I didn't say it was a tragedy either.  I'm just not proclaiming with a toothy grin that the man's in Hell.

Perhaps this will give you the opportunity to shift your talents to Morales and Correa.  Chavez wasn't the only Socialist strongman down there.

I wonder if there would have been this much celebration on Ricochet if it existed when Pinochet died.  Probably not.

It makes me sad whenever I read tasteless comments after someone's death.  Anyone's death.

"...If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven, when they think their pages are full of falsehoods and on facts which they themselves have learnt from experience and the light of reason? Reckless and incompetent expounders of Holy Scripture bring untold trouble and sorrow on their wiser brethren when they are caught in one of their mischievous false opinions and are taken to task by those who are not bound by the authority of our sacred books. For then, to defend their utterly foolish and obviously untrue statements, they will try to call upon Holy Scripture for proof and even recite from memory many passages which they think support their position, although they understand neither what they say nor the things about which they make assertion."

Saint Augustine writes in De Genesi ad litteram libri duodecim ("The Literal Meaning of Genesis")

"Usually, even a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of this world, about the motion and orbit of the stars and even their size and relative positions, about the predictable eclipses of the sun and moon, the cycles of the years and the seasons, about the kinds of animals, shrubs, stones, and so forth, and this knowledge he hold to as being certain from reason and experience. Now, it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an infidel to hear a Christian, presumably giving the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation, in which people show up vast ignorance in a Christian and laugh it to scorn. The shame is not so much that an ignorant individual is derided, but that people outside the household of faith think our sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we toil, the writers of our Scripture are criticized and rejected as unlearned men..."

I agree with you, Prof. Epstein.  One of the consequences of messing with another man's wife is that you may have to duke it out (verbally or physically) with an angry husband.  The fact that you can lure that angry husband onto your property and murder him without being prosecuted is ludicrous. 
I wonder if the commentators above would be fine with this scenario:

 I yell rude, vile things at women walking by.  As soon as one walks on my lawn to lecture and/or slap me, I pull a gun out of the bushes and shoot her. 
Apparently that's protected in Montana.  Ridiculous!

RightinChicago, I hope you bought some spices to make your hat meal more edible.  :)

I did, but I wanted to comment on the text and not the subtext

Regarding that play, Coco was in no-doubles position in CF, he got a late jump to the fly ball because it made a loud sound off the bat, and he makes that catch 99% of the time.  Weird things happen in play-off baseball.  He immediately repented on twitter after the game. 

This game broke my heart.  That's alright though, we'll sweep you guys in occupyland.

Missed the debate last night to watch my recorded Ranger's-A's game.  Glad for the outcomes of both.