Hospital reverses decision after firestorm of protest. Amelia goes on the list for a kidney transplant.

In which we take a look at 10 resources on the web for all your Catholic needs.

This is pretty clever (though a bit NSFW). The actor (apparently English) capture the rhythm and music of American English while speaking gibberish:

It reminds me a bit of watching movies on airplanes without the sound. You can generally follow the plot while having little idea of what specifics people are emoting about.

HT: A Conservative Blog for Peace

that our God King is their enemy and holds their faith in contempt.

The Lord thy God King is a jealous god and will have no other gods before him.

Choose you this day whom you will serve. If the LORD is God, serve him. If Obama is God, serve him.

is to ransom the captive.  To do that, it helps to know where and who the captive is:

It doesn’t have to be this way.

Think different. The Catholic Church has done it for millennia.

I’m a long-time reader, first-time emailer. Now that the cliche greeting is out of the way…I spend a lot of time on the forum-ish website Reddit. If you’re familiar with it, you probably know it’s full of techies, atheists, left-wingers, and other sorts of people. But all the communities on Reddit, AKA “subreddits,” operate independently of one another. So groups like the Christianity subreddit can spring up and prosper without getting swept up by trolls. There’s also a subreddit for Catholicism that’s been steadily growing. We’re at 1,800 members and though we’re small, we’re proud. If any of your readers like 1, discussion, or 2, reading linked stories/blogs, they should stop by, make an account, and explore the site’s functionality, because Reddit revolves around reading and discussion. I’m not a moderator or anything, just a user who’d love to see the the group grow. It makes a great hub for Catholic stories and opinions.

Go to it, troops!

EIEIO.

…he makes up for in sheer bellicose and ignorant vitriol. Here he is getting angry, along with a horde of yes-men, toadies and sycophants, about he knows not what (and being schooled in the comboxes by Mike Flynn, aka “Ye Old Statistican” till he bans Flynn for being smarter and better informed than him).

Brian Green, who is a better man than I am, patiently does the autopsy on Coyne’s ignorant belligerence for the sake of people who actually care about understanding and not just winning a shouting match for boneheaded atheistic materialism.

Frank Weathers has a petition you can sign right here.

Kevin O’Brien on show biz is always worth reading.

rendered in a medium appropriate for its sobriety:

I’m particularly amused by the sheer chutzpah of Newt Freaking Gingrich wailing about dishonesty and calling other people liars. The ease and vulgarity with which he does it, and the unblinking way in which it does not even seem to occur to him that the measure he uses will be measured to him persuade me that this man is a sociopath.

Sociopaths, just in case you didn’t know, are not good people to put in charge of our nation’s military and nuclear capabilities. They are also, by the way, poor champions for Christians to latch on to if they wish to be taken seriously by a rapidly de-Christianizing culture.

Gingrich’s strength as the tribune of conservative rage at liberal elites trumped his long history of personal failings. He violated the very family values and the sanctity of marriage that social conservatives profess to believe in, but it was much more important that Gingrich was the enemy of their enemy.

However, as the regrettable folk hero Sarah Palin is again demonstrating, a large number of conservative Christians no longer seem to be interested in conserving the Christian tradition. As long as it “annoys a liberal“, Palin and her acolytes are fine with that, even if it’s stupid, corrupt, dangerous, and no more related to conserving actual Christian teaching or morals than Gingrich was when he took millions in graft from Freddie Mac. Indeed, it’s now about the same identity politics the Left was about 30 years ago. Question Palin or Gingrich or one of the other tribal elders and the response is not “What are the merits of the argument?” but “You must be a damn librul or you wouldn’t question Sarah Palin.”

This stuff can’t self-destruct fast enough.