Is the pope Catholic? It turns out that yes, yes he is. (Go Wildcats!) Read more

Black smoke emerged from the chimney at Slacktivist World Headquarters today, indicating that we do not yet have a new post. Read more

Treat her right. Read more

Steves is the host of a travel show on public broadcasting. But the GOP's attacks on international travel and public broadcasting aren't why Rick Steves is angry. Read more

In the twisted world of LB, the evangelistic impulse has nothing to do with love for others. It becomes, instead, a way to justify, and revel in, their damnation and destruction. Read more

It is, like every form of Satanic baby-killerism, a desperate, foolish lie that desperate, foolish people tell themselves in the hopes of tricking themselves into believing that they are entitled to always identify as intrinsically Good People. Read more

Wherein I imagine a new use for the door-to-door evangelism training from my childhood. Read more

They know. They can smell it too. And the stink is just as bad to them as it is to normal people and to decent people. Read more

"You and the alien who resides with you shall have the same law and the same ordinance." Read more

Retailers usually start getting Christmas [stuff] in July and August. That may not happen this year. Read more