for getting the Oscar for best Live Action short: God of Love. He has a great acceptance speech too! Read more

…is much more fun than to be bitter and dedicated to death. To wit: Pro-Life Flash Mob in Chicago Surprises “Walk for Choice” CHICAGO – A pro-abortion “Walk for Choice” rally was held in downtown Chicago’s Daley Plaza on Saturday, February 26, 2011. Participants of the “Walk for Choice” were protesting HR Bill 3 which limits taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood. As a response to the “Walk for Choice,” anonymous teens and young adults organized a “Pro-Life Flash Mob” over... Read more

My old fellow parishioner Jonathan Potter had a poem featured on Writer’s Almanac yesterday! You can listen to Garrison Keillor read it here. Well done, Jonathan! Read more

on ends and means, for those of you interested in the ongoing argument about the Absolute Number 1 Favorite Moral Heresy of Americans: Consequentialism. Speaking of which, reader Ed Mechmann sends along this comment regarding the “But what about undercover cops who lie?” question. He writes: Regarding the strange desire to measure Catholic morality and divine revelation based on the presumed the morality of undercover operations: Unlike most of the commenters, I actually know something about this subject — as... Read more

I sometimes get the impression that major newspapers, in staffing their religion sections, achieve this goal by the chief editor looking around the table and asking, “So, do any of you guys believe in God?” One person tentatively raises his or her hand and says, “Well, I consider myself spiritual, but I don’t really buy all the religion crap”. Everybody else averts their eyes lest they make eye contact with the editor or his hapless victim. “Great!” says the editor.... Read more

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What we Dark Lords play over the intra-Dark Tower music system as we brood: And, of course, techno-readout graphics just make it all cooler and more dehumanizing, which we naturally love. You learn all about this sort of cultural accessorizing at Dark Lord Voc Tech School. So much of being a Dark Lord is all about style. Read more

Lately, in my reading of various blogs and posts, mostly Catholic, I have become rather puzzled. I thought that I knew the difference between the “Tradition” of the Church, and ordinary traditions, but some of the comments I have been reading, mostly about torture, war and the death penalty, have confused me. These are subjects that are really not widely discussed in my neck of the woods because they seem to have been settled a long time ago. However, I... Read more

Today, my minions, I am happy to report that the legions of my shuffling lackeys has again swelled to 550 (after one minion had to be killed for showing insufficient appreciation of a joke). In celebration whereof, I offer this bit of awesomeness: I love sequels with a happy ending. Read more

…expect the next words out of their mouths to be a farrago of confusion. Case in point, this utterly mixed up young thing who stands on the forefront of our nation’s next generation of “abortion providers”: Raised Catholic, LaRochelle was inspired by author Alice Walker and helping poor pregnant women in Latin America. She remains spiritual; in her perfect world, free access to contraception would end abortion. How spiritual can you get? Read more