This one notably doesn't say when to take it (my dr said evening but also said maybe it won't matter) and the tech did not ask me if I had any questions so I forgot that I had questions till it was too late!

I suppose this is really a @jblainefoster.bsky.social question

It might make me sleepy, though, and I'll not let some pill change my determination to stay up late!

That's the end, there wasn't a third movie.

Oh absolutely, and I think that there was a really important message in that coverage that's been harmful to broader efforts at child safety: that it only happened because of the Catholicism, which is separate from American society, and therefore nothing in American society needed changing.

the gaze, man. it's everywhere.

But the fact that American culture is rooted in Protestantism has shaped what even wholly secular Americans think religion is about. It's more than me being told by an editor "can't you just say sermon, homily is a niche term." It blocks folks from apprehending the fullness of unfamiliar things.

That's why there was way less concern about women converting to Catholicism than men in the 19th century--because they were not dangerous as voters--and oops it's my dissertation again.

Anyway a whole lot of American identity was shaped early on by the belief that Protestantism alone is conducive to the kind of independent thought necessary for a free country and free voters and Catholicism was one of the most important foils for developing that theory. (Also race and gender, obvs)

And yes, a lot of American Catholics voted for this government's behavior and think it's right, because religion is but one part of a person's complex identity, but it doesn't change the views of the Church any more than me voting for candidates who support reproductive freedom does.

Anyway, the continued American instinct to assume Catholicism is always and inherently authoritarian down to its bones would make Lyman Beecher very happy and that's reason enough to question it.

Religious illiteracy in the US is a problem, and it's the fault of a lot of things, but the result is more than people not knowing which rules go with which religion, it's that people think all a religion is is rules.

(Drifting made it hard to measure but it was approx 2')