I had always thought that Sixtus was a weird name, but as Wikipedia points out, it's not the Latin way of calling someone "The Sixth", which would be Sextus (which is a Latin praenomen, hilariously), but from the Greek Xystus, meaning saved.

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Just an interesting video from a couple of years ago about how the Consumer Products Safety Commission and the glorious glorious Washington Post went after Zen Magnets for marketing magnets to adults, while ignoring the hundreds of people and companies on Amazon and other platforms actually marketing them to children. Amazing.

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Tekton was one of the first websites I started reading on the subject of religion, probaby even before this blog was started if I recall correctly. I wish them well in their semi-retirement and new ventures. (Blogspot link here).

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Dang, the bias is real.

In some cases, the anti-papal bias is explicit. When Bishop Gunnar Stalsett of Oslo of the Church of Norway, who also served as leader of the country’s Centre Party, was a member of the Nobel Peace Prize committee from 1985 to 1990 and again from 1994 to 2003, he explicitly stated he would not support the candidacy of Pope John Paul II due to the Catholic Church’s position on contraception.

Still can't believe they gave one to Obama right before he launched a series of wars.

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The solution to such academic pressure was obvious: abolish Step One grades. Since January 2022, Step One has been graded on a pass-fail basis. The fourth-year Yale student can now go back to his diversity activism, without worrying about what a graded exam might reveal. Whether his future patients will appreciate his chosen focus is unclear.

Lovely.

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