So, a couple of years ago, at the first SQPN conference in Atlanta, I met a wonderful couple (friends of Greg and Jennifer Willits) named Mac and Katherine Barron who do a terrific podcast called “Catholic in a Small Town“. Mac is one of those people who just naturally cracks me up. During the conference, they showed a short film he made to illustrate the pathos and heartache of blogging. It was in the best style of the uber-pretentious Euro... Read more

Not a lefty ideologue, yet hostile to nuclear mass murder. Probably just best to label him a racist per Arturo’s custom and move on. He’s white, after all. Doesn’t that tell you all you need to know? When you are engaged is disgorging your loathing of those with ritually impure tribal affiliations, you can’t slow down to find out too much detail or it will screw up your brilliant joke at their expense. Read more

is always fun: Lord, send us a hundred more like him. Read more

when Joe Bob Briggs gets it more than most media types and even more than many Catholics. And may I add that he’s dead right about Zero Tolerance Insanity. It’s laziness disguised as justice. Read more

After months and months of saying, “We’re not partisan. We are merely Catholic.” The partisans over at Vox Nova finally have erupted in a (frequently hilarious) new blog called The Catholic Fascist. Proving yet again that Chesterton knew what he was talking about when he said that the revolutionary knows what is wrong better than he knows what is right, the lefties at Vox Nova offer some hilarious skewers of the right wing Catholic blogosphere at its most absurd, and... Read more

In which we noodle Anne Rice’s not-too-surprising attempt to have Jesus without the Church. She’s not the first or the last to try that particular experiment. Read more

In which we engage in some shameless grandpa doting on the first birthday of the Cuteness and contemplate the difference between our culture’s measure of human worth and God’s. Read more

Had a wonderful time out in eastern (really central, but everything on the other side of the Cascades is eastern, as far as I’m concerned) Washington. Stayed with our dear friends the Drollman’s and got a major education in the geology of the region Turns out most of Washington’s interior is a product of a) gigantic multiple lava flows from a hot spot that used to be under Idaho and is now under Yosemite (look out, world, when it blows... Read more

In the spirit of this piece, which asserts that it’s possible to have a civil disagreement about the Theology of the Body without descending to the level of bitter demented conspiratorial rhetoric, I give you Dawn Eden’s Master’s thesis, which makes some reasonable points about West’s version of TOB in a spirit of charity. There’s also a little news story on it here if you are late to the party. And if you wanna know about the TOB from the... Read more

Me and the Fambly are taking off for some much-needed R&R; in Eastern Washington. We will be visiting Wenatchee (Birthplace of Wenatchee!), as well as checking out Grand Coulee Dam, doing a bit of rock hound fossil hunting, and generally relaxing and goofing off. Please send all praise to my email address. Please send all complaints that I am a panty-waisted ivory tower fantasist who doesn’t understand that real men cowboy up and do the nuclear murdering of innocent men,... Read more