still doing the stuff Maciel built it to do. The crooks and liars at the top who enabled, lied for, and covered for–and who go on encouraging the private devotions to–that creep need to be unceremoniously wrenched from their positions and sent to clean toilets. God help whoever is in charge of trying to re-tool that machine to do something besides what Maciel built it to do. I suppose if the Church can re-tool the Roman Empire, it can handle... Read more

…are still Commies. Same murderous utopians as ever. Read more

… and I’ll show you a culture that despises children. Read more

…calling this guy a prisoner of the New World Order. Give me a break. He’s a soldier who disobeyed orders due to a nutty conspiracy theory that he’s dumb enough to believe. He got what he asked for. Birthers are as silly as 9/11 Truthers. Read more

Demonstrating those people skills for which evangelical atheists are deservedly known, the latest Napoleon Dynamite with a mean streak does his thang: Meanwhile, normal people celebrate Christmas or don’t have a cow while others celebrate it. Read more

to some poor soul who imagines there’s a Perfect Church out there. I’ve sometimes thought of writing a letter of complaint from a disgruntled Trad complaining about how it’s been forty years since the Council and how everything is worse than it was before the Council. Heterodoxy is rampant. The government is overtly hostile the Church. The Church is shot through with bishops who compromise their own teaching. Everything sucks. Then I’ll date it “363 AD”. Tradition is the living... Read more

from Show Business.I have this theory that if large entertainment conglomerates could invent a system where they just plugged a jack into the base of your skull and downloaded the sensation of pleasure into your brain without ever having to bother creating anything or paying anybody, while charging some large ticket prace, they would finally have achieved the apotheosis of the prefab “art” they are laboring to churn out. What astounds me is how many films are made each year... Read more

It is amazing that the people who gave us the glorious “Firebird Suite” (filmed on location at Mt. St. Helens at the height of Disney’s flirtation with New Age Nature Worship twaddle): should also give us: But that’s only the start. There’s also this: And this, I think, can only be explained as an attempt to renew the Cold War by sapping and impurifying our precious bodily fluids: I just don’t think I can cope with Puff Vladdy. Read more

Turns out Sean Dailey was thinking along similar lines to me with respect to the element of terror and darkness in good Christmas stories like “It’s a Wonderful Life”. Or rather, I was thinking like him since he appears to have written his piece first. “You have excellent taste, Thomas. It exactly coincides with my own!” – Henry VIII to Thomas More in “A Man for All Seasons” Read more

Welcome! Join the Misery! I will continue to post the Star Wars Holiday Program until all my demands are met! If you meet my demands, I will post more anyway because I have to see how it ends. That is all! Read more