Frank Weathers has a petition you can sign right here. Read more

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

A reader writes: I’ve noticed in the comments on your blog some complaints from a few readers about the ads that show up on your site. I don’t know how to address that from your end, but you might want to check out and recommend to your readers the plug-in AdBlockPlus, which is free and available for Firefox and Chrome. It blocks all of the farmed-out ads that show up on sites all over the internet, and I’ve found it... Read more

…but at least I’m dense. So last week I ran a piece that hurt a number of my readers (the one about the CBS reporter who was raped, ridiculing the arguments of torture defenders whose excuses for torture also work out to be excuses for rape). A number of women who had endured abuse themselves wrote to complain and I wrote back, attempting to explain why I wrote it. Some people favored the piece, others strongly objected. A nagging voice... Read more

….is one extremely amazing guitar player. Read more

…is one of my favorite priests. The University of Washington Newman Center is lucky to have him. Read more

….to the extreme upper left hand corner of the map is because it’s safest to isolate such terrible drivers from the rest of the US. Here, for instance, is an all-too-typical spectacle as some Seattle drivers are rendered utterly helpless by two inches of snow. Be gentle with us, America. We atone for our ineptitude behind the wheel with pure Northwest niceness. Read more

check out Logos.com! Tons of stuff at you fingertips. Read more

of World War II. Pretty funny, but with some NSFW language. Read more

Everything is just fine. We aren’t becoming a police state or anything. Look! Snooki is on TV! Go back to sleep! Ahem: A reading from The Work of Mercy (from the chapter on “Admonishing the Sinner”): Lest we moderns gloat over the foolish Pharisees too much, however, we should note that postmodernity has contributed something new but not improved to this ancient evil of spiritual laziness. Postmoderns have added to the ancient tribalism of the Pharisee another very significant reason... Read more