Firstly, thank you again for your link to my article about Hiroshima a few weeks back. It generated some good comments, and some terrifying ones. I’ve not yet been called a ‘pantywaist’, but did attain the coveted ‘armchair moraliser/moralist’ and ‘dunderhead’, along with the charitable suggestion that my theory is ‘counterfactual’, and should perhaps be altered to suit the facts.After this brief exposure to the ‘real world’, I am quietly full of respect for your self-restraint. My question is in... Read more

You can watch this video (showing the mind-blowing numbers of asteroids that have been discovered since 1980. Created by Scott Manley—and with some very lovely music, I might add—the video shows new discoveries in white, then changes their color to reflect position in relation to the inner solar system. Earth crossers are red. Earth approachers are yellow. All others are green.) and have one of two reactions: One reaction is to think (like the reader who sent it to me):... Read more

Vatican: ‘Outrageous’… NYPD: ‘Dangerous’… Holder: ‘Idiotic’… Clinton: ‘Disgraceful’… Palin: ‘Unnecessary provocation’… FBI: Retaliation ‘Likely’… Steve Greydanus, as is his custom, has a typically sane take on the whole imbroglio: You’ve gotta love the information age. Not so long ago, if you were a pastor of a teeny-tiny flock with a name like “Dove World Outreach Center,” you would be doing all right if you landed yourself on page 3 of the local section of the nearest big-city paper on a... Read more

Today, my craven lickspittles, I bid you contemplate the meaning and purpose of Minion.com. Whose minions are they? Who or what are they serving? Why do they care so much about the precise time on the East Coast? Why do they have “In the beginning” in their URL header? Get back to me when you have answered these riddles. Tell me a story. Make it good. That is all! Read more

Remember when your Mom would try to coerce you into cleaning your room with threats of no dinner or early bed time? How about this: BE A TIDY DRONE OF THE STATE OR WE’LL ALL DIE IN A NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST!!!! One gets the strange sense of oddly inverted values in this wondrously surreal little relic of Cold War social engineering. The strange fascism that invades the home and tries to dictate how you should put plastic on the furniture and... Read more

the two kinds of questions people ask about Christ. 1. Questions asked in order to find something out.2. Questions asked in order to keep from finding anything out. Read more

Romance Blooms in a Catholic Seminary for Fr. Roman A Catholic seminary romance story: A seminarian caught between celibacy expectations and the tradition of a married clergy. After 40 years of marriage and priesthood, Fr. Roman tells their story. Signs of progress for Eastern Catholics in the US and Canada — more and more newly ordained priests are married — especially in the Ukrainian Catholic Church. Perfectly legit in the tradition of the Ukrainian rite. Read more

Bronx Nurse Discovers Terminal Cancer Patient is Long-Estranged Father Read more

doesn’t fit the Left/Right boilerplate (Jesus too, if it comes to that). Read more

Pope Benedict is hurting people in the Name of Jesus!!!! Read more