For non-Catholics who might not know, the Society is the Society of Jesus—-the Jesuits. Here’s the quotable Charlie Pierce on Paul Ryan and the Jesuits:
A long while ago, I warned Paul Ryan about screwing with the Society. The Society has been at this politics thing for close to 500 years. The Society is very good at it. They were not afraid of kings, nor of Japanese emperors, nor khans of the deserts, nor of popes back when the popes had real armies. The Society, like nuns, will fk your shit up. With incense. You think the Society’s going to shy away from a two-bit zombie-eyed granny-starver from Janesville?
Read the whole post at Esquire.
Thanks for the promotion of this even-better-than-Pierce's-usual piece. I spent most of yesterday evening in actual, persistent pain from laughing over his lede. Paul Ryan would be well served to stay away from dark alleys near Marquette or some theological disputation will go down.
Posted by: El Jefe | Thursday, September 20, 2012 at 04:58 PM