Scott D. Moringiello
Scott D. Moringiello
@sdeltam.bsky.social
Associate Professor and Chair of Catholic Studies at DePaul University.

Fan of Dorothy Day, John Fluevog, Bryan Garner, and Mookie Wilson.
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Your theory of money is your theory of social relations, and Monetarism is a conservative-libertarian moral framework.

The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.

The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.

jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...

The 'Collection Plate' Narrative Of Taxation Is Poisoning Society
The most common progressive-liberal narrative about taxation actually exists wholly within a conservative-libertarian framework and is paralytically myopic, and the consequences are deadly.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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The last time you could have reasonably said Nothing Ever Happens was probably 10,000 BCE, in the days right before the Neolithic revolution.

And once we added beer to the equation, forget it. Something Happened every few minutes after that.
November 8, 2025 at 6:36 PM
And besides, no one should talk to anyone who wears that jacket.
November 7, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Two different colored pens.
November 7, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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In vernacular British English, any noun can be used as an insult if it feels right. Just looking around my immediate surroundings, 'you teacup' and 'you plant pot' work, but 'you subwoofer' and 'you mousepad' don't. Same with pastries: donut works, cheese lattice doesn't. Nobody knows why.
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
You and Geoff look great!
November 1, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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An aunt is any woman who 1. Knows your parents 2. Sees you 1 or more times per year on average 3. Notices how tall you've gotten
October 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
But I don't know what language game we're playing!
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
If we're going to be pedants, then it's worth noting the OED lists your definition as 2a. It also notes, "Regarded by some usage writers, esp. after the mid 20th cent., as erroneous or ambiguous."
October 28, 2025 at 3:05 PM
If you will it, it is no dream.
October 28, 2025 at 1:51 PM
I had a HS teacher who didn’t like it when we said “presently” but meant “currently.” He also didn’t like when we said “hopefully” to mean “I hope that.”

I apologize if I came across as snarky. It wasn’t my intention. I meant to mock myself as a white liberal.
October 28, 2025 at 3:11 AM