Fr. Frank Pavone was last seen committing what his own bishop called an act of “desecration” of an altar: using the corpse of a baby he has evidently refused Christian burial for decades in order to perform a 45 minute stump speech for Donald Trump. Now he’s back, still stumping for Donald and, with unerring timing, choosing the exact moment when Trump is threatening to commit what the Church calls a “crime against God and man meriting unequivocal condemnation” in order to... Read more
My latest at the Catholic Weekly, in which we discover that “prolife” apologists for nuclear incineration of babies in the womb have just a teeny tiny inconsistency in their outlook: Burning civilian populations alive didn’t suddenly become immoral in 1965. It always was. It is the liars who call Vatican II a novelty who are, in fact, the modernists worshipping at the altar of relativism for the sake of their star-spangled god, Moloch. And this is the incredible thing. The... Read more
North Korea and the US are both headed by dangerous unstable idiots. Our unstable idiot just vowed, “They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen,” said Trump, in a statement that is unclear about whether he means Korea’s threats or Korea actually attacking. The problem with putting cowards who have never actually seen warfare in charge of making war is that they are much more blithe and bonny about inflicting it on others. The... Read more
…is filling your head with Right Wing Noise Machine lies called “news”. John Oliver gives you the NSFW facts: Go here to find out which TV stations in your area are feeding you crap disguised as news. Kudos to KOMO, here in Seattle for trying to fight back. Read more
…with the story of his broken heart and Dennis, his younger brother, who still lives in it long after July 22, 1964. Mike is one of my favorite writers, part hard sci fi, part Irish bard with the sense of a good yarn, a droll sense of humor, an appreciation for the brokenness of people, and for their capacity for redemption. If you’ve never done it (or even if you have), you should read his Spiral Arm series: Read more
…for if we believe in our hearts that Mammon is Lord and confess with our lips that it shall raise us from poverty, we shall be saved. But cursed are you poor, for you are lazy and it is all your fault and we owe you nothing but scoldings. This is the message Republican Rite Christians are more than twice as likely to send than normal people. And we seriously wonder why normal people can’t see Christ in us. So... Read more
…in which Yr Obdt Svt contemplates the mysteries of English orthography before an audience of Australians who spell things all weird and wrong and who think I spell things weird and wrong: Some comedian once remarked that when he was a child, television led him to believe that quicksand was going to be a much bigger issue than adulthood revealed it to be. Spelling is a bit like that. It is one of the first great obstacles we meet as... Read more
…and the utter incoherence of the Christian prolife witness is on full display with the Party of Trump’s new move to strangle legal immigration. Recall that a few years ago, full of paranoia about our Kenyan Muslim President and the War on Terror and all that, the Right was freaking out about Demographic Winter. The Mooslum Hordes were outbreeding us Christians! If Americans didn’t heed the call to get busy in the bedroom, we’d be hip deep in this foreign... Read more
…in a speech so stupid and irresponsible the DEA chief had to publicly reject Trump’s calls for more violence from cops. Mr. Trump, they have that down. Here are some cops torturing a kid with a stun gun: This horror went on for three hours. What we need are guardian cops who protect the community, not warrior cops who see themselves as legates of Ruling Class tasked with grinding subjects under jackboots. The former gets you a healthy community. The... Read more
…and then be denied compensation by Appeal Courts. All they have to do is breathe oxygen while being brown and it’s perfectly fine for the state to do that: Davino Watson told the immigration officers that he was a U.S. citizen. He told jail officials that he was a U.S. citizen. He told a judge. He repeated it again and again. There is no right to a court-appointed attorney in immigration court. Watson, who was 23 and didn’t have a... Read more
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