Rick Broussard

Editor, writer and, apparently, filmmaker (see Granite Orpheus, featured at 2026 Mill City Film Festival and MONIFF). Thinks multiversally, acts subatomically.

[Rick Broussard @broussard]

On CBS Mornings they are discussing with parents of grade-schoolers how to use the Cornell "r*pe-orgy" to talk to kids about "consent and peer pressure."

[Rick Broussard @broussard]

@seanonolennon What about digital fish?

[The Chivalry Guild @ChivalryGuild]

13th century Italian city terrorized by a wolf. Kills not just livestock but humans too. St Francis decides his help is needed. Goes to meet the wolf. Finds him, sees fangs, gets charged. "Come hither, Brother Wolf; I command thee, in the name of Christ, neither to harm me nor anybody else.” Wolf slows. Comes to Francis' feet. Lays down. Francis offers deal: wolf must vow never to eat man or livestock; in return the Gubians will feed him. Wolf nods. Francis asks the wolf to promise. Wolf places his paw in Francis' extended hand and they shake on it. Both enter the city and Francis informs the residents of the agreement. Wolf lives its final years in Gubio. Citizens feed him, grow to like him, and mourn his death when it comes. Church of St Francis of the Peace is built on the site where the wolf was buried. Many years later, in 1872, renovations are being made and the crews find a very old skeleton of a large wolf!

Ora pro nobis, St Francis, friend to animals!

[Rick Broussard @broussard]

@Pontifex So what repairs does today's Church require?

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@live_free_603 Sadly, "Death is not the greatest of evils" wouldn't fit on the license plate.

[Rick Broussard @broussard]

I got my first job with a local newspaper because I had NOT been a journalism student. The wizened, old, former-Marine editor swore (he swore a lot) that he couldn't find a real newspaper guy in any of the graduates he interviewed and said they had all been "ruined" by the "advocacy journalism" that was being taught. That was nearly 40 years ago.

[Catherine Herridge @C__Herridge]

A Thought For Today and Every Day

- Who said it?
- Where is it?
- Does it still ring true?

Build The News Upon
The Rock of Truth
And Righteousness

Conduct It Always
Upon The Lines Of
Fairness and Integrity

Acknowledge The Right
Of The People To Get
From The Newspaper
Both Sides of Every
Important Question

[Rick Broussard @broussard]

@roddreher To me, voting is always like a forced trip to a cheap dentist.

[Rick Broussard @broussard]

@roddreher Thanks, Rod. I hear you.

— An E.B.

[Corey Coto @coreycoto]

Best allegory of the cave meme yet

[Corey Coto @coreycoto]

@Jason_Jorjani

[Rick Broussard @broussard]

@CaraCastronuova You can carefully parse the real, obvious differences and then decide about the death penalty for killers without abandoning the innocent beings awaiting birth.

[Rick Broussard @broussard]

Carefully preserved in my father's files, passed along to me by his second wife after his death, I found the letter I'd written to him after my unexpected "born-again" conversion to Christ. Even after decades as a writer and editor, those stationery pages still contained the most important, heartfelt words I ever set to paper.

[Rick Broussard @broussard]

@RealisticPoetry trees and fleas and bees and knees.

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@voidcentral_us @mysteriouskat Among others.

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@RealisticPoetry Oxford commas

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@RealisticPoetry Thus

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@guilherme94jose A recent homage: https://t.co/4E3jy0by2m

[Rick Broussard @broussard]

@KevinTierney @nhpr Start involving parents in the actual challenges.

[THIERRY D "ardéchois et français" @ThierryTout]

🇩🇪🇸🇮✝️🎶
Si vous aimez les chants venus d'un lointain passé, voici une œuvre composée il y a 900 ans :
"De Spiritu Sancto", de Hildegard de Bingen, une noble allemande ayant vécu de 1098 à 1179 apr. J.-C..
Cette mystique chrétienne, sœur bénédictine et polymathe composa cette œuvre magnifique, en souhaitant qu'aucune voix ne se distingue des autres afin de ressentir pleinement la pureté du chant.
Dans cette vidéo, ce chant est interprété par le Chœur Féminin du Gymnase Classique St. Stanislav, situé à Maribor en Slovénie. 🤩
(🎥bestofopera es/IG)