In which we watch as the Puritan endures the humiliation of becoming respectable and discovers a curious and unexpected friend. Stuff to do, so that’s it for today, except for this little piece, also offered in gratitude to Our Lord. Happy Thanksgiving!  I’m especially grateful for all youse guys! Read more

Lowest Crime Cities Have Huge Immigrant Populations and Vice Versa Read more

The author of the fetchingly titled blog “The Hell with it” wants to buy me a drink. Sounds like a hale fellow lady well met. If I’m ever wherever he she happens to be (wherever that is) I’ll happily see him her one drink and raise him her another by buying him her a drink. Pleased to meetcha, chum chumette! Update: Post corrected to reflect Gender Awareness. Read more

I’m down to 290 lbs. from my high of 334. I find that when I eat less food, I lose weight. I’m working to understand if this is a coincidence or if there is an actual correlation. Also, moving is good. The good news for my fellow Jollies out there is this: If a largely sedentary *writer* (job description: sit in a room all day) can lose nearly 50 lbs., so can you. My exercise, such as it is, typically... Read more

Here in the western half of the Soviet of Washington, we are total snow lightweights. Partly that’s because we don’t know how to drive in it. Partly it’s because our traffic is the worst in the country even on good days. Partly it’s because we have hardly any snow removal equipment since our temperate climate doesn’t justify the cost. Partly it’s because our city government is hamstrung by daft PC pieties that only this bluest of blue state cities would... Read more

Doesn’t happen everyday. A reporter read the IC piece on the Pope and wanted to talk. Hopefully, what I said won’t get too twisted. We’ll see. Read more

A reader writes: At the end of August my wife and I met this homeless woman at the adoration chapel near where we live. We allowed this woman to come and stay with us until we could help her get back up on her feet again. This proved to be harder and not to the fact that the woman was on crutches. She ended up staying with us for around 3 months. We ended up having to ask her to... Read more

A reader writes: At the end of August my wife and I met this homeless woman at the adoration chapel near where we live. We allowed this woman to come and stay with us until we could help her get back up on her feet again. This proved to be harder and not to the fact that the woman was on crutches. She ended up staying with us for around 3 months. We ended up having to ask her to... Read more

Boniface, who takes blogging a whole lot more seriously than I do, pens a sort of manifesto about what he takes to be the vocation of the blogger. More power to him. The world needs Catholics who think about such things and try to work out the theological implications. The Faith, after all, is Catholic–and therefore about everything, including blogging. That said, this is the sort of thing that would engender tremendous performance anxiety in me if I ascribed to... Read more

…but you can trust him now. The Prophet Gore has spoken. Read more