St. Louis archbishop says: “No cookies for you!” (Read to the end, though.)

(I stole both that headline and the link from Leftover, so thank you, Leftover.) St. Louis Archbishop Robert Carlson has suggested that parishes within the sound of his voice reconsider their relationships with the venerable girls’ organization. Says the archbishop in a letter on Feb. 18: “Girl Scouts is exhibiting a troubling pattern of behavior …

This is our blizzard from space

On Sunday morning, astronaut Scott Kelly tweeted this photo of the aftermath of Jonas, which is a really hard name to take seriously for a violent winter storm, but there you are. Jonas stomped up the eastern seacoast this weekend, and left some towns measuring the snowfall in feet, not inches. (Central Park got nearly two feet, if that …