but nobody is alarmed or anything.Uh huh. Update: Good news: It was a test of our stuff.Bad News: The Pentagon’s left hand does not know what its right hand is doing. Read more

…witch hunters light torches in comboxes. It’s amazing how all the old rationalizations and shouts of “heretic!” seem never to get old with these people. But they oppose abortion, so all is atoned for by that. Read more

…till Fr. Mitch Pacwa told me. Like, did you know the Church discourages the practice of naming your Guardian Angel? See paragraph 217 here. I discovered that sitting in a little airport cafe in Petoskey, MI last month with Fr. Pacwa and the lovely folk who squired us around at the Boyne Mountain Marian conference. News to me, but there you are. I suspect Fr. Pacwa has forgotten more little known factoids than I will ever know. Not that I... Read more

…on the evolving theory among conservative Christians (including Catholics who should know better) that Opposition to Abortion Taketh Away the Sins of the World. “Not every one who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not protest abortion in your name, and cast out democrats in your name, and do many... Read more

Yes! I am happy to see that the Academy, with its typical attention to majoring in what matters and minoring in the unimportant is embracing Fat Studies. Of course, we Jollies dislike the temperanormative term “fat” but we recognize it’s a new field of study and that many academics have not learned Correct Speech yet. A few threats and screams from activists in lecture halls will cure that. The main thing is that young people be taught to embrace their... Read more

Here’s an excerpted conversation from the comboxes on this thread, in which a post-modern named Tony61 speaks from the smug suburban security of his mental prison to various Catholics who are trying to suggest that our perceptions and legal definitions of things do not constitute the whole of reality. Note, in particular, as Ye Olde Statistician attempts in vain to bring Thomistic common sense to bear on the idea that Things are Only as We Think Them: Posted by Tony61... Read more

A reader in my comboxes releases a gush of tears for the unspeakable cruelty and cowardice of a blogger who criticizes the unjust policies of a rich and powerful man. His thesis: unless a blogger can obtain a bill of indictment against a former president, he is unspeakably evil and cruel for denouncing his war crimes. No. Really: Tom. No trial is necessary where all that is being done is gum-flapping. Obviously, anyone can flap their gums. Accusing people of... Read more

STD and Cheating Spouse detection apps for your cell! Specifically, designed for Bright Young British Things who don’t want to visit the doctor. All you do is pee on your cell phone! You know, if some evil super villain were going to hatch a scheme to make a whole civilization degrade and demean itself simply for his amusement, you could hardly come up with something more insulting than the spectacle of millions of human beings peeing on the cell phones.... Read more

A reader asks for prayer: For friends whose hearts are hardened against the Church’s clear teaching on the grave evil of torture; that they may return to full obedience, and that they may love mercy. Father, hear our prayer for a heart softened to the Spirit’s guidance on this question, through Christ our Lord. Mother Mary, pray for them. A word to my reader, from Uncle Screwtape: MY DEAR WORMWOOD, I am delighted to hear that your patient’s age and... Read more

A reader asks for prayer: For friends whose hearts are hardened against the Church’s clear teaching on the grave evil of torture; that they may return to full obedience, and that they may love mercy. Father, hear our prayer for a heart softened to the Spirit’s guidance on this question, through Christ our Lord. Mother Mary, pray for them. A word to my reader, from Uncle Screwtape: MY DEAR WORMWOOD, I am delighted to hear that your patient’s age and... Read more