PRE-LENTEN MEGAPOST OF AWESOMENESS!!! Read more

The Ironic Catholic writes: I don’t know if you remember linking to this plea and story last October, but I thought that you’d like to know the end of the story–and it’s great! I think the link made a difference. Thank you! BTW best email handle ever. Cool beans! Re: the handle. I can’t take credit. My Dad always dreamed of christening a boat the Chez Ami. I walk unworthily in his giant shoes. Read more

Andrew Bacevich on how the democratic revolutions in the Mideast are making our Globocop attempts at engineering history irrelevant. Read more

Becci is in the end stages of cancer and Sherry has been caring for her for the past week or so. Please join us in prayers for them and their family. Read more

I think she’s really on to something. The phenomenon of boys who linger on as “guys” rather than becoming men is endemic in our culture. It’s also very very unhealthy. Note to guys: Women like men. Note to men: Guys need mentors and fathers, cuz they often have no idea how to become men. Read more

The attempt to censor Huck Finn as racist because ignorami have a Pavlovian reaction to the acoustic cue of the N word has to be one of the stupidest moments of Identity Politics vs. sanity ever. The novel is one of the greatest triumphs in American literary history in humanizing (not to mention lionizing) the black slave and showing slavery (and white slave owners) up for the utter barbarism and cruelty of the system. Any person who wants to really... Read more

A (conservative) reader writes: My wife just looked up at me from the morning paper and said, “I hate conservatives, and I don’t want to be associated with them.” This is surprising. She is very conservative, morally and otherwise. “What are you talking about?” I asked. “Michelle Bachmann is jumping all over Michelle Obama for trying to encourage mothers to breastfeed,” she said. “Honestly, these people. What is wrong with them?” Said the breastfeeding, La Leche League enthusiast. The problem... Read more

Since you’ve been writing about the Creed lately I thought you might be interested in this project. Looks good to me! Keep up the good work! Read more

There’s an app for that. Though I gotta say, do we *really* need tech when beads will do the job? Read more

Unlike the damp-handed draft dodgers like Dick Cheney who order torture, Matthew Alexander actually served his country in the military and was tasked with the interrogation of prisoners. He did not, however, wet himself and authorize war crimes while conflating brutality with courage as cowards do. Instead, he rejects harsh interrogation techniques. Here’s an interview with him. Near the end of the interview the interviewer asks him about efficacy and the army interrogator points out that even if there are... Read more