for all your Rome Reporting needs. Read more

At least, according to mathematician who have never actually checked to see if they are right by throwing a giraffe in some water and seeing if it can swim. Math also proved that the Titanic was unsinkable. Read more

Somebody floats a trial balloon to suggest that GKC should be canonized. I’m all in favor of it and expect it could happen someday, but not in my lifetime. I will certainly pray for it. We fat Catholic writers can use all the help we get. He certainly has shown me what sanctity looks like. Read more

A reader writes: I asked for prayers for my cousin’s husband, in his 20s and with very serious cancer. After intensive, daily chemotherapy a scan showed he is now *cancer-free*, pending a second test to confirm that diagnosis. I believe in the power of prayer and I want to say thank-you to all who prayed for him and my cousin over the course of the past several months. And thank you to God for prayers answered! Amen and amen! Thanks... Read more

And who among us is immune from the excitement! What better way to honor the source and summit of all that is noble, true, good and beautiful than with the celebration of the virtue of Pride! Why, Pride is something that Scripture associates with God’s brightest angel! How better we celebrate the wonders and glories of homosexuality and polymorphous perversities in all their kaleidoscopic variety than with the glorious and triumphal achievement of Pride! And what better way to raise... Read more

Here’s a cool piece on how Jim Henson did some short films for Big Blue way back when. It includes the films via YouTube. The other night, I watched the (dated tech, but still highly creepy) Colossus: The Forbin Project (made in 1970). It’s one of those “Our system is foolproof! What could possibly go wrong?” stories so beloved by the dystopian science fiction movement that started to take off in the latter half of the 60s and kept grinding... Read more

Everything it touches turns to lead. Next up: when we finally leave Iraq after our misbegotten war against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, we leave our old collaborators wide open to payback as our experiment in creating the Great Society on barren Muslim soil slides back into democratically elected tyranny. Be nice to the US or we’ll bring democracy to your country. It had to end this way, which is why it never should have started.... Read more

Science, turned to healing and redemptive purposes, is a beautiful thing! Read more

If you live here in the Soviet of Washington, you might want to know that Life of the Party endorses Clint Didier. Read more

Wow! I should bug out for extended periods of time more often! People start following my non-blogging in droves! Today, my cringing lickspittles, I command you to consider the naked mole rat and the tiger quoll, the respective mascots and totems of Greg Popcak and Tom Kreitzberg. What can we learn from all this? If you think of something, let me know. That is all. Read more