A reader writes: I was in a car accident in 03 and now I have traumatic brain injury and life is completely different now thinking and sleeping is such a challenge and I am so tired of being brain tired and am trying desperately to accept this.Turns out theres only 2 things that can cure me sleep and god. Please pray my brain fatigue improves daily and my sleeping is at it was before my tbi please pray the devil... Read more

Andrew Sullivan on the emerging story of the torture murders (and cover up) at Camp No: As usual, the foreign press cover the new and powerful evidence that the Bush administration was using torture methods so severe they killed prisoners in Gitmo as late as 2006 – and then covered it up with claims of a triple-simultaneous-suicide. Here’s the Guardian. And the Telegraph. And the Independent. Here’s the Irish Times. And the Canadian Press. But the US papers? Nary a... Read more

The evil spreads as Vatican Radio fails to read my comboxes and discover that Cdl Schonborn actually sent a gracious note to a very mean fellow bishop, not an apology or anything. Read more

that might interest you. Also, here’s a whimsical bit from Matt Archbold on the atheist habit of stealing Oughts from the Theist worldview to supply what is lacking in a void created by the materialist world of Is. It’s dumb to say atheist materialists are ipso facto immoral. They obviously are not. What they are is thieves with honor. They can’t derive a single Transcendant Ought from materialist universe of Is… so they just go ahead and steal Transcendant Oughts... Read more

author of one of the great conspiracy theory novels of our time (In the Country of the Blind) takes note of a rather ironic proposal for dealing with conspiracy theorists that reminds me ever so much of this: Read more

…has written the story of his conversion: No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy. It’s an amazing and beautiful tale of God’s grace at work through thick and thin. Note to combox warriors: I will not tolerate arguments about Medugorje in this thread. Violators will be shown the door. This is your only warning. Read more

In which we ponder just who is the Catholic whose enthusiasms and opinions are most formed by the pontificate of Pope John Paul II and put to bed the silly swear word “neo-Catholic”. Read more

Roe. Good to see! Read more

We’ll see…. I’m banking on the show reflecting exactly the moral chaos it hopes to help resolve. Read more

…ordinary people with brains and not 3000 years stoopider than the evolved culture that gave you Paris Hilton and Britney Spears. Read more