Well, not quite. This Gene Wilder Lego minifigure probably didn't go to Iowa and graduate. I think they mean: Gene Wilder is the first Iowa alum to be memorialized as a minifig. Then again, it is Iowa, so every Nebraskan figures that maybe the minifig really did graduate?.

RT @PillarCatholic: Is there a vocations crisis in women's religious life?. Well, that depends on who you ask.

What do you want to know?.

probably worth noting too that those “thousands of Catholics” were members of the sacred episcopate.

It is not hard, Denver Post, to look up the dates of VCII.

RT @DrJamesDobsonFT: Today, we share the news of the passing of our beloved founder, Dr. James C. Dobson. He went home to be with the Lord….

Intuition is good. And a mode of knowledge. But it’s dumb when people standing in a blizzard say “what climate change?” And it’s dumb when people looking at a small person say “no arms, no face, obviously not a person.”.

1. That looks like a super cute kid to me. 2. I have reason, so I can make judgments based on science, rather than the mythos of a “looks like” test.

RT @PillarCatholic: How one Dominican friar is helping people get lawyers -- and why.

RT @peterrhague: I work in a fruit fly lab. You guys would be surprised at how many people just buzz around looking for rotting apples. Tha….

RT @christovari: I do corpse pickup for the local morgue. You guys would be surprised at how many people are just lying in their houses dea….

RT @sirsfurther: I'm an ambulance driver. You guys would be suprised by how many people just writhe on the floor in pain. That's it. That's….

I'm a reporter. You guys would be surprised at how many people are interested in current events. That's it. That's their life.

I encouraged my kid toward baseball because I thought it’d be the cheapest sport. I was so naive back then.

Here you go, it's The Tuesday Pillar Post:.

“Mourning is just extended self-pity.”. This guy is a sociopath.

RT @kev_jg: I tried to replicate this chart — including the Y-axis crime — with figures from @caracatholic, a research center at Georgetown….

Three episodes into my first watch of Mad Men. I really hope Annie Edison is going to be a big player in this show.