First place for Gender Issues (lol Best Uterus, but I’ll take it!) and I am grateful not only for the award itself but for the fact that CPA singled out my publisher, Ave Maria Press, for praise. AMP took a real chance on my book and I’m very glad to see them recognized for it. Anyway, I found out about this over the weekend but it seems esp appropriate to post it on the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul,... Read more
The tweets are here (and as always it’s a great mix of violence, systematic racism, and contempt–without the attitude and belief system that leads to crapping on suspects’ beds, would you get as much beating and profiling? Dehumanization through humiliation is the core of torture, again some more) and here’s an interview with the guy: …Your tweets suggest that you were once part of what you consider to be the problem in policing, but that you had an awakening of... Read more
for AmCon: Pixar’s “Inside Out” is a charming, vividly-imagined film with terrific comic timing. Its insights are sharp and its message accurate. So why was I the only person in the theater who didn’t sniffle? “Inside Out” takes us into the brain of Riley, a buoyantly happy 11-year-old girl about to face her first major life challenge: a move from Minnesota to San Francisco. We see the world inside her head, including a control room operated by her emotions. Joy... Read more
You can hear echoes of these posts in my Lava thing–several of us working similar veins. EDITED! MORE LINKS BELOW! Melinda Selmys, “Five Ways We Can Save Marriage Now”: Yesterday I said that we need to move forward with building up the infrastructure to make traditional marriage into a realistic and attractive possibility. Today, I’m going to talk about some very practical things that we can start doing to help make this a reality. In First Things’ Symposium on the... Read more
Yesterday afternoon I watched Inside Out. You’ll get more from me about that later, but for right now I want to write a bit about “Lava,” the short, and the weird coincidence that I saw it on the day of the Supreme Court’s gay marriage decision. Aesthetically “Lava” is a mixed bag–or rather, a bag with one great thing and one awful thing in it. The designs for the two volcanic main characters are charming, lovely, and just weird enough.... Read more
at the Marshall Project: I am a gardener in prison, if such a thing is possible. I tend a garden outside my housing unit — kneeling, kneading, watering. What I do for plants is very different from how this place handles me. more Read more
Sorry to do this twice, but their personal-experience articles are such a mixed bag that I feel obligated to note when they find a real, uh, hidden gem: If you were an alien sent to Earth to study humans, what one profession would give you the best insight into how people work? Beat cop? Trash collector? Phone sex operator? Well, we’ve got a candidate here you would have never picked: The guy who cleans your port-a-potties. We talked to a... Read more
they’re offering a web seminar on the same topics. Chris Roberts, author of the excellent Creation & Covenant: The Significance of Sexual Difference in the Moral Theology of Marriage and one of the authors of the Philadelphia Archdiocese’s surprisingly terrific Love Is Our Mission: The Family Fully Alive (which I reviewed here), is giving a seminar TODAY, this evening at 7 – 8 Eastern! Sorry for the late notice but you can register here and I suspect you will not... Read more
rides again. The usual Cracked-related warnings for language and brain-breaking imagery. You’re sitting on your couch one evening, happily working on your latest 90,000-word Spider-Man fan fiction, when your phone rings. It’s a collections agency, calling about that anatomically correct Peter Parker love doll you bought for $10,000 back in 2001 and didn’t quite pay off. You’d been hoping that the world had forgotten about that debt, just like they forgot about the photos of you and Peter you put... Read more
for AmCon: For the extraordinary 2012 documentary “The Act of Killing“, filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer encouraged participants in the Indonesian death-squad killings of 1965 to reenact their murders of suspected or fabricated Communists. The killers, who have reaped material and political success from their violence, were for the most part happy to oblige. Their reenactments became increasingly baroque and Hollywoodized; they expressed the self-image which made them feel powerful and free, and allowed them to evade remorse. This was not a... Read more
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