POETRY WEDNESDAY: Three poems called “The Hippopotamus.” There’s a fourth (here), but it’s lame. From Ogden Nash, T.S. Eliot, and Hilaire Belloc respectively. [clipped] Read more

THE RABBIT DONE DIED (MAYBE): Weird science. I got no problem with this sort of thing, really, although the glowbunny scientist sounds like a sketch and a half. Then again, if that were what I worked on all day, I’d probably get a little odd(er) myself…. Read more

“Ever since Karen got killed it’s been a real drag.” –Teen party boy, “The Horror of Party Beach” Read more

CAAAAWWWW!!!!: Two posts about my favorite bird, the crow. Links via Charles Murtaugh and Father Jim Tucker respectively. That first link is especially cool. Murtaugh’s also been doing some fine posting on the flaws of Intelligent Design; this is my favorite post so far, but scroll down for more. And John Betts has been posting very interesting excerpts from various apocryphal and/or Gnostic gospels. Start here and scroll down. Link also via Fr. Tucker, I think. Mortimer is not quite... Read more

“OVERPAID, OVERSEXED, AND OVER HERE”: To which the American response was, “The problem with you British is that you’re underpaid, undersexed, and under Montgomery.” –from reader Robert Wenson Read more

“I WAS JUST TUCKING INTO MY SECOND HELPING OF EGGS AND B. WHEN MONSIGNOR REEVES SHIMMERED INTO THE ROOM.” Hilarious and topical pastiche from Disputations, who’s also got various posts about Saint Dominic and so forth. Read more

IF GOD DOESN’T WANT US TO EAT BABIES, WHY ARE THEY MADE OUT OF MEAT?: Why Sanchez’s notion of identity and moral worth is wack. For those of you coming late to the party, this started out with Russo’s post on science and abortion; Sanchez then said, Yeah, Russo’s right that if infanticide is wrong then abortion is wrong, but infanticide isn’t wrong unless you’re a random groundless theist. (You may have guessed that I’m paraphrasing.) You can follow the... Read more

FUNNY STRANGE OR FUNNY HA-HA?: The Agitator has posted his lists of Awful Movies Seen Recently and Funniest People. This inspired me to post similar stuff. (More substantive posting, like part one of a response re Julian Sanchez and abortion, coming this afternoon. For now, I realized that I have already read 1/3 of the books on my fall reading list, so I’m gonna slack a bit.) I don’t watch enough TV to give you a Funniest People list (although... Read more

FROM DEEP WITHIN THE WUGGLY-UMP: A blogless friend forwarded me this Federalist Society report from the American Bar Association annual meeting: Here’s the latest from the ABA Annual meetings in Washington, DC… [clipped] Eve again: My friend’s comments: “The Federalist Society’s report on the ABA convention (they try to report w/o commentary; sometimes they fail–note the well placed introductory clause “curiously,” in a parenthetical). “Notice at the very end, when discussing the award created by Hillary Clinton, the ABA’s slight... Read more

“You can’t mesmerize me! I’m British!” –Peter Cushing, “At the Earth’s Core” Read more