2013-06-12T16:06:34-04:00

Last updated on: June 12, 2013 at 4:06 pm   By

Valentine’s Day is approaching far faster than single people are stocking up on vodka and Snuggies, so I’m going to add to the general misery and write about Love. I’ll start with two claims that have become relatively controversial in controversially relativistic times: 1. The words “husband” and “wife” are identities. Jack introduces Sally as “my wife” and not as “the woman I call my wife”. Jack is a husband, he is not just called a husband. These terms of love represent who we are,... Read more

2013-02-07T15:56:11-05:00

Last updated on: February 7, 2013 at 3:56 pm   By

“In the end, therefore, money will be the one thing people will desire, which is moreover only representative, an abstraction.” -Kierkegaard When a male of the Mandan Indians fasts for three days, shaves his head, and hangs from splints pushed through his skin to prove his manhood to the universe he is not thinking of traditional Mandan culture. He is becoming a man. Nor is the Mexican Catholic, crawling on her hands and knees to venerate an image of the Blessed... Read more

2013-02-01T15:28:58-05:00

Last updated on: February 1, 2013 at 3:28 pm   By

Christians ruin mind-blowing concepts by hollowing them into a phrase, titling their banal rock albums after them, and otherwise extracting from them their philosophical fiber, leaving behind the rattling husks we call cliche. We did it to “Jesus saves”, we did it to “God loves you”, and I’m afraid that — if I don’t write this blog post right now — it will happen to the phrase, “Life is a gift.” Life is experienced as a given life. This is not a Christian... Read more

2013-02-01T12:22:20-05:00

Last updated on: February 1, 2013 at 12:22 pm   By

The Huffington Post asked me to join them in a discussion about the now famous lawsuit against St. Thomas More Hospital in Colorado, a situation which has spawned a breed of headlines gleefully shouting “Catholic Hospital Claims Fetus Is Not a Person”! On the off-chance you’re as shaky on the details as I was, have a description from the Huffsters: Lori Stodghill was 31-one years old, seven-months pregnant with twin boys and feeling sick when she arrived at St. Thomas More hospital... Read more

2013-01-23T18:10:48-05:00

Last updated on: January 23, 2013 at 6:10 pm   By

In an attempt to prove to the world that theirs is an ideology neither outdated, nor blatantly unscientific, nor rapidly devolving into that ridiculous elitism blind beyond the narrow confines of its own minority view, the pro-abortion kids have made a YouTube video. It’s excellent, with universal appeal, celebrating all the good ushered into the world by Roe vs. Wade, wait, sorry, wrong script, it’s actually the creepiest shit you’ve ever seen. Nothing says, “Gosh, what a wonderful, uncontroversial law I should support”... Read more

2013-01-17T17:59:04-05:00

Last updated on: January 17, 2013 at 5:59 pm   By

Man is a self-glorified ape. He occupies no special place in the Cosmos — a bigoted, specieist idea — and the differences between him and his hairier, happier relatives are merely quantitative. Man has more intelligence as he has less hair than the gorilla, and this alone is the reason for his apparent apartness from the animal kingdom and his puffed-up sense of dominion over the earth. The ape uses rudimentary tools to feed itself. The human uses complex tools to feed himself.... Read more

2013-01-15T16:19:32-05:00

Last updated on: January 15, 2013 at 4:19 pm   By

The injustice of abortion is the free choice of a woman who sees it working towards her good. This has lead to the common call for men to remove themselves from the debate surrounding the injustice. It is, after all, a woman’s issue. While I sympathize with the thought, it doesn’t hold to the light of reason. Women bear pregnancy and birth, as they physically and emotionally bear the sad experience of abortion. As such, they are certainly the most experientially trustworthy... Read more

2013-01-14T16:00:03-05:00

Last updated on: January 14, 2013 at 4:00 pm   By

This is directed at men. There is nothing more painful for the over-privileged male denizen of modern America than an absorbed reading of The Lord of the Rings, of Les Miserables, or even of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. These, by the golden light of fiction, depict acts of greatness foreign to us, inspiring us to take heroic action that, in all likelihood, we’ll never take. It’s the same with accounts of men like Gandhi or Lincoln, Roosevelt or Douglass, Nelson Mandela or St. Thomas... Read more

2013-01-10T14:55:33-05:00

Last updated on: January 10, 2013 at 2:55 pm   By

I’m curious as to why man is in the habit of wearing clothes, when no other animal has been spotted with even the smallest, most insignificant of socks. We could say it’s the fault of the cold, but humans wear clothes at the Equator. We could take a Darwinian tactic and argue that clothes are hygienic — and thus the people who wore clothes outlived and out-reproduced those who ran young, wild and free — but this assumes too much. A... Read more

2013-01-07T15:21:51-05:00

Last updated on: January 7, 2013 at 3:21 pm   By

To love is to experience the infinite on earth. This is apparent as the taste of cheddar cheese, but I’ll prove it nonetheless. For the lover, some is never enough. His is an all-or-nothing deal, for better or worse, in sickness or in health, and any statement that dares to render his love finite — that is, to give his love an observable ending point — is a contradiction and a squirm-inducing lie. To prove my point, do your utmost... Read more

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