MUPPETS! Read more

I give you a bit of silliness I wrote, lo, these many years ago for The Wittenburg Door (the world’s pretty much only Christian satire magazine). It’s called “Paranoia is the Serious Business of Heaven“. PS. I’m not much for JFK Conspiracy theories, mostly because I’ve been to Dealey Plaza and seen for myself what a small space it is. No room for second gunman on the grassy knoll without everybody hearing it. And, frankly, any decent marksman could have... Read more

resists militant persecuting gays in brown shirts. Read more

Fantastically gifted musicians like Jon Gomm The Youtube page says you can get the guitar tabs if you click on the link provided. After watching this performance, I have to wonder what on earth those tabs would look like. Read more

She writes regarding Vatican Insider’s recent piece on “34 Thousand Catholics More Each Day” I felt I had to provide a little fact checking and interpretation. There are two basic problems: 1) the numbers are wrong and 2) in any case, the numbers don’t mean what VI apparently thinks they mean. Because there are tens of thousands more Catholics every day but that still isn’t good news. Reality is a harsh mistress. Read more

…has the odious Newt’s number: Newt’s trying to ju-jitsu the thing, telling us that his experience as a shill for Freddie Mac gave him valuable insider understanding of governmental affairs. Isn’t that what we want in a candidate, valuable insider understanding of governmental affairs? Quote from Newt, on the campaign trail in Iowa Wednesday, quote: “It reminds people that I know a great deal about Washington. We just tried four years of amateur ignorance, and it didn’t work very well.... Read more

But while these swine whose first thought was to rob veterans rather than sacrifice a nickel of their own Mammon continue to fail in their actual office, they do continue to enrich themselves, of course. I still like my idea: strip them of all wealth gained while in office (beyond their congressional salary) and give it to injured vets. Make it illegal for any elected official to make any money except their salary during their term of office. (They can... Read more

…that we somehow never wind up hearing about from the MSM, such as the former Planned Parenthood worker who got canned and went on to lead a 40 Days for Life Protest. Read more

…is an 18 year-old girl attending Franciscan University. She originally started a blog to keep family and friends updated with what she was doing.  Now, she’s using her blog as a class project and beginning to post more about the faith and her experiences at college.  She is pursuing a triple major in Theology, Catechetics, and Communications, and am planning on using her degrees to spread the faith through work as a youth minister and also through media.  Of such lovely hopeful folk is the... Read more

I’m gonna be on your airwaves 11 AM today. This is in about 15 minutes. I’ll be on Radio Maria, WSBC, 1240 AM, Chicago. The show is called The Bible Lady and airs live every Monday from 11am-12noon Central time. I’ll be gabbing for the next hour with Gail Buckley about the four senses of Scripture. Call in and we can gab with you too! Read more