More Axe Cop awesomeness here. Read more

on evolution and creationism (including ID), with fun explanations about how everybody would be better off if they all just listened to St. Thomas and got a clue. Very informative. Read more

In which we continue our discussion of the Big Ten. Read more

The other day I skimmed the latest issue of the Atlantic. In it, Christopher Hitchens reviewed the historical novel, Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel. Here’s the pull quote that I noticed: Anyone who has been bamboozled by the saccharine propaganda of A Man for All Seasons should read Mantel. This is, of course, a completely unsurprising statement coming from Hitchens. However, it reminded me of something I read many years ago from a Catholic writer who also complained about Robert... Read more

The happy land of Upside Down where some Catholics are Bad Anglicans and some Anglicans are Good Catholics. Read more

that evangelical atheists suffer from a sort of personality disorder. Only such people could see something sinister in a perfectly ordinary and well-intentioned prayer request. These guys seem to miss the normal emotional and affective cues that ordinary humans give and receive. Read more

I’ve enjoyed this blog and reviewing these comments, although I can’t say I’ve read them all carefully. I will ask you all the same thing I asked Mark on his post of today: what is it about waterboarding that you KNOW that leads you to conclude it is torture and a morally instrinsic evil? Any of you experienced it yourselves or seen others undergo this “torture”? Any of you dealt with survivors who are left scarred and wounded from this?... Read more

“utter craven ideological conformity by people of different flesh tones”. A reader gives a little taste of this: I’m not sure if you’ve seen this latest thing in Newsweek about how Harvard tried to add a very basic study of (gasp) religion into their core curriculum, but the initiative was shouted down by materialists such as Steven Pinker who would not hear of such a thing. Link here. I tried to put on my best Shea-esque hat (unworthy, craven follower... Read more

tosses out some fresh Kreitzberg Bait. Read more

This is all about how Eric Kaiser Johnson saved my ragged butt. It’s worth looking at if only for the picture of Ashley. Nota bene: Ashley is Dale Ahlquist’s daughter and Eric is her husband-to-be. They played Rosamund Hunt and Michael Moon in Manalive, a film that is rushing toward a theatre near you with ruthless Chestertonian efficiency. (Kevin was the hapless Professor Eames, whom Innocent Smith threatens with the pistol in the trailer. When I find out more, I... Read more