This press release just came over the transom: More People Replacing Cable TV With Internet Set-top Boxes, Using These Devices to Attend Church in People’s Home LONGWOOD, FLA. — Even as USA Today reports that more Americans are cutting out cable and satellite and replacing these services with set-top devices that stream TV shows and movies from the Web, many of us are now using these devices to attend church in people’s homes. Case in point: More than 4,000 owners... Read more

A reader, responding to this recent Tale of the Unexplained, writes: I have a similar story. My Father died in a car-crash at around 1 AM on the night of Saturday August 22 1987. He was killed in a head-on collision by a drunk-driver. We know the other driver was drunk because he survived for a few hours longer than my Father (killed instantly, beheaded by his own steering-wheel); the other driver’s blood-alcohol was stratospheric. By the way, I know... Read more

Have I mentioned that the hatred of children is satanic? Yes. I have. Good. And have I mentioned that the childfree movement is therefore an archetypally evil movement? Yes. I have. Good. And have I mentioned the corresponding truth that babies are therefore an unalloyed good? Yes. I have. Good. My work here is done. Read more

In which we discover that the defenders of consequentialism don’t tend to think ahead. Read more

Fr. Brian Harrison writes, understandably wounded that I referred to him as “every Catholic torture defender’s absolute favorite theologian“. He reminds me that he wrote this some time ago, a point which I have not forgotten. Just to be clear, I was not talking about his position with regard to torture. I’m talking about the way in which his work has been exploited, for years now, by people who are bent on making excuses for torture—specifically the torture policies deployed... Read more

by making gobs of evidence against bad guys inadmissible in court is not exactly clear.  But President Bush is proud of his legacy and the Rubber Hose Right will continue to defend it, no matter how stupid it is to do that. That’s the thing about intrinsic evil.  It’s not just wrong.  It’s dumb. Read more

Galvanized by the huge outcry of travelers exasperated by having to endure gropes from TSA goons assaulting nuns, children and random passengers from Lake Wobegon, our responsive government is springing into action: Napolitano May Exempt Muslims From Airport Pat-Downs… Meanwhile, Ron Paul, who all good and loyal Republicans must acknowledge as insane on pain of excommunication as an Unpatriotic Conservative, sponsors the American Traveler Dignity Act. Read more

… are headed for the Oprah show again. Mary’s Aggies has the scoop. Read more

…is giving a very thorough review of Disorientation, to which I contributed an essay. The review is in four parts and you should read it all (he’s up to part 3 so far). He touches on my piece here. Read more

Regina Barron’s folks write: We’re still anxiously awaiting the removal of the breathing tube and Regina waking up…but her progress continues to be good. Her lungs still have too much fluid to take her off the ventilator today…but most-likely tomorrow. They just now took her off the dopamine (the last of the BP medications); they’ll be keeping an eye on that. Her kidney function isn’t as good as we’d like to see, but she has continued to make steady improvement.... Read more