As this cowardly generation slouches toward Gomorrah, we increasingly show ourselves willing to prostrate ourselves before any tyranny that promises to keep us safe. Our only qualifiers on that are “How much will it cost me personally?” As long as somebody else foots the bill in blood or treasure, no problem. The Dems have, for years, insisted on pushing the butcher’s bill for person autonomy and sexual license off on the very weakest: the unborn. Lately, the Thing That Used... Read more

…than abortion. Nothing. They could have had their whole damn package if they’d just backed off on the Sacrament of Abortion. But no way! Abortion is the summum bonum, the sole core value, the thing before which all else must be sacrificed. And, as the League of Ordinary Gentlemen is discovering to its shock and dismay, exactly the same thing is becoming true of the Torture Party. The issue is still in doubt, at least with respect to Catholics, because... Read more

I had a brain storm (or maybe a brain fart) the other day and I’d like to hear your opinion on it. It seems like whenever I mention voting independent/third-party to someone they say “go ahead, throw your vote away!” My idea: would a Facebook group called something like “I’m seriously considering voting independent in 2012 and I’m wondering how many others feel they same way” be a step in a good direction? I haven’t looked around on facebook for... Read more

Henry Kissinger once observed that the reason academic quarrels are so vicious is because the stakes are so low. Poor Richard Dawkins, so utterly clueless about real life when the subject is not wasps is late to the party in discovering that just because you don’t believe in original sin does not make it go away. So, the poor man makes some minor changes in his website and finds himself on the receiving end of a massive amount of white... Read more

Evangelicalism is feeling the increasing centrifugal tension of American culture as it disintegrates for lack of the coherent center that only Catholic tradition can, in the long run, provide. On the one hand, you get the Mark Driscoll form of egocentrism: “In Revelation (the last book of the New Testament), Jesus is a prize-fighter with a tattoo down His leg, a sword in His hand and the commitment to make someone bleed. That is the guy I can worship. I... Read more

Your kid will never have to endure the exquisite discomfort of telling Mrs. Krabapple to rein in the lapdancing in her bleak effort to recapture lost youth and be hip. Read more

in the time machine notion of the Catholic Faith which dictates that a mere return to the past is the same thing as adherence to Tradition and that every development since The Golden Age is simply and solely creeping modernism. Read more

If you have an enormously long screed you need to publish with all sorts of formatting html and beaucoups links and you are having trouble getting it to work, please do not contact me and ask me to drop everything in order to publish it for you in the combox. My suggestion: get rid of the html, make sure you save it on your computer so that if something goes wrong you don’t lose it, keep to the 5000 character... Read more

I’ll be doing a chat for Catholic Writers Conference On-Line from 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST. Just so you’ll know. Read more

So why did I blog off early? Basically, I had to get stuff done so I could take the guys to Scout camp at Camp Sheppard down past Enumclaw (yes, there really is a place called “Enumclaw”.) We drove about a hundred miles (if you count “getting lost” as part of the drive), grabbed fish sandwiches at BK somewhere in Auburn, and eventually made it in around 6:30ish after three hours on the road (it was slightly over one hour... Read more