circa 1935. Fortune Magazine printed this in all seriousness. Keep that in mind the next time you read the latest Doomsday Scenario from some respectable congregation of ink-stained wretches in the MSM. Read more

of a culture in the grip of a scientific priestcraft is the tendency of our science media to constantly announce that things you have known all your life are officially permitted to be known because some study somewhere has discovered the bleedin’ obvious. Case in point: “Sneaky dogs take food quietly to avoid getting caught“ Attention, earthlings. You are now permitted to know this as a fact because Priests of Science have mediated this truth to you. Before that truth... Read more

A piece in which many of you star, since I was inspired by your compassion, prayers and concern last week as you comforted me in my affliction. Thanks, guys! Oh, and check out the hot new re-do over at Inside Catholic! Read more

Steve Greydanus has a good review of the amazingly brilliant Inception, which I saw with the Beloved Cow on Sunday. It’s a dazzling and brainy piece of work that I loved. It’s not for kids, but not for the reason you’d think. No sex, just a little language, and lots of curiously unbloody violence. Mainly the difficulty is that the story is *so* Byzantine and complex that it’s a challenge for adults, much less children. It’s also morally complex and... Read more

Not a pleasant film to watch, but a nice expose of the economics and politics by which Murder Inc. and the rest of the baby-killing industry sustains itself. Read more

Building a life on New Age nostrums is like constructing the national highway system out of marshmallow. The pretty white path may look lovely as it stretches off to the horizon. But with your very first step you find yourself mired in goo. Deepak Chopra inadvertantly shows us why: Read more

This just came in over the transom: Hi Mark,Weird request here. I’m in the process of putting together a new book that Guideposts will be publishing in 2011. It’s a non-denominational devotional for new moms, but I’d really like to dedicate one devotional a month to a dad’s perspective. I’m hoping you know some witty (or at least energetic and good-natured) young dad who has a good eye for seeing God in the little things of life. Decent writing skills... Read more

You are now entering the “How were we supposed to know?” phase of IVF experimentation on human beings. Side effects will include a 42% higher rate of cancer for IVF offspring. Read more

The Judge of all Mortal Flesh decides to hold forth on some more cherished enemies, because he knows a thing or one about canon law and feels himself called by Self Most High to (yet again) attack and wantonly destroy somebody’s reputation. Unfortunately, Ed Peters, an actual canon lawyer who knows what he’s talking about, neatly, cleanly, and without fanfare, hands him his head. Read more

which is much less fun that playing with ketchup. Result: not much blogging today. However, I will tell you this: one of the loveliest things you can possibly do is spend the evening of Sunday, July 25, 2010 laying a blanket out under the stars with family and friends in the back yard of house somewhere in Western Washington. All you need is a bottle of wine and some plastic cups. Nothing fancy. One of the great evenings of my... Read more