Jonathan Heaps

The 2026 Fall Lonergan Symposium at @setonhall.bsky.social "Mysticism & Method" Presentations by Mary Frohlich, RSCJ, Amy Maxey, & a response from Kevin Hughes Thursday, Oct 8, 9:30am-12pm Register at the link below. Streaming will be available. events.shu.edu/event/49665-...

In The Apology, Socrates is unafraid of death precisely *because* he’s ignorant of it.

Good news is that the coffee pot seems to be working correctly again, so God willing I can wait until Black Friday to buy a new one

lol this tattoo healed *so* badly. Easily my worst ever. Partly on me for getting it halfway thru a trip to Rome in June, but also sunglasses guy there had a heavy-ass hand and turned me to burger w/ the red.

One squirrel just chased another down a tree trunk and onto the sidewalk directly in front of my dog, who they both noticed at the same time and then ran from in opposite directions. Feels like a metaphor for something

In Vance’s defense, that picture contains 1/3rd of Montana’s population

I admit this is aphoristic and I haven’t totally unpacked its significance even for myself, but I keep coming back to “the insufficiency of liberalism is actually what indicates its necessity”

“The difficult thing, gentlemen, isn’t escaping death; escaping villainy is much more difficult, since it runs faster than death.” Plato’s Apology, 39b

Relatedly, when I lived in Milwaukee, neighborhoods had FB groups where they planned Trick or Treating on non-Halloween days to make it harder for kids from other (predominantly Black and brown) neighborhoods to come & participate. Some deeply fucked up racist shit.

I have myriad justified gripes about higher education as a profession, but at this very moment, I am reading Plato’s Euthyphro outside on a temperate Fall day with a cigar and a cup of coffee and it’s literally my job

Judge Furman rules that Maureen Comey's firing violated separation of powers. Orders backpay. Govt's arguments violate 2 centuries of SCOTUS rulings & would "unsettle the equilibrium established by this Nation's constitutional system." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I demand justice for this pun.

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Another practical pay off of those college theater classes I’m always touting: I can yell *really* loud

I was reminded this morning of a not-insignificant challenge to riding a bike on city streets as the weather starts to get colder: it’s nearly impossible to effectively flip someone the bird while wearing mittens.

Heard someone call Notre Dame a Jesuit university on a podcast. They were making a nice point about religious pluralism in the US but it still hurt my ears

This is amazing

Lula Goes HARD

Thinking about this Roman barista

The long-serving strongman leader of Serbia, Aleksandar Vucic, has conceded defeat in an election that pitted him and his right-wing party against a diverse student-led opposition movement that spent two years protesting his government.

Tho that one episode of The Mandalorian almost is bc Timothy Olyphant is in it

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A friend of mine is selling a 10-volume set of Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics. If anyone is looking to add these to their library, you can check out the listing here: ebay.io/m/rbo3zy #TheologySky #KarlBarth #booksale

This is fine

Got my Covid/Flu shots yesterday and usually, besides a little soreness at the injection site, I’m totally fine. But this go around, for what I *think* is the first time, I have been fully wiped out by one or both of them. I have been LAID LOW.

They’re putting litter boxes in the polling stations!!!!

If the Dallas fucking Cowboys can recognize an overdue union, I don’t want to hear any more foot dragging from Catholic Universities

Hanna (6): “Like in The Ring?” Me: “You know The Ring?!?!” Hanna: “Relax, dad. Just from a YouTube video!” Annie, from the kitchen: “that’s worse!”

Annie and I just quoted the same line from the same work of musical theater at the same time. #NuptialMystery

Oskar (11): “what’s with ‘Luke Warm.’ Who is this tepid Luke?” Me: “maybe he knows that ‘Noah Vale’ guy they always talk about on the news.” Oskar: “from their correspondence: a letter to Noah Vale”

Standing athwart the Eschaton, yelling ‘Stop!’

Pretty good

This is even more inside Lonergan baseball than usual from me, but MattY’s position seems to express the tacit view that there’s only (in Lonergan’s technical sense) progress & decline, so if things are bad, the only way out is along the incremental pathways of progress. Redemption never irrupts.

I’ve said it before, but I feel guilty in retrospect how dismissive I was of Anne Lamott’s efforts to not hate Dick Cheney so much

I stress the historical angle - that this is a reduction on a per capita basis even compared to the mid-1900s - because I want to be clear this isn't a 'bubble' popping, but a decision to have *fewer* historians in the future than any time in living memory. I think that is an unwise decision.