City of God (?)

City of God (?)

Pizza magnate Tom Monaghan preps to build a new college and - this is the really interesting part - separatist Catholic town in Florida:

"Ave Maria won’t be just a university, he continues. It will also be a new town, built from scratch, in which the wickedness of the world will be kept at bay. 'We’ve already had about 3500 people inquire on our Web site about buying a home there — you know, they’re all Catholic,' Monaghan says excitedly. 'We’re going to control all the commercial real estate, so there’s not going to be any pornography sold in this town. We’re controlling the cable system. The pharmacies are not going to be able to sell condoms or dispense contraceptives.'"

But I'll bet there's a Domino's Pizza close by...

Theocracy via migration. Is this the Ratzinger-era version of the Liberty Project, where the Libertarians sign up to move to New Hampshire? Are we all going to separate into our own little colonies of like minded cohorts?

Oh, wait. Guess I better put that stone down before I toss it. I'm in Iowa City. Hey, does anybody know if the pro-choice Domino's Pizza boycott is still on?

An excuse for an old story: waaaay back in my dorm days our phone number was one digit off Domino's. We used to take orders, then say "wrong number" when they called back looking for their pizza. Juvenile, but not really malicious.

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