There’s only one of me and lots of stuff on the web. Thanks to the ironic midwifery of TurretinFan, I got introduced to a quite lovely article by Arturo Vasquez that does a beautiful job of pushing back against the Mariophobic Response Syndrome that characterizes so much of anti-Catholic polemic. What TurretinFan regards as “inappropriate Mariolatry” is, in fact, simply Vasquez’ articulate defense of the piety that has sustained the ordinary faithful for two millennia while the clever boys with... Read more

There’s only one of me and lots of stuff on the web. Thanks to the ironic midwifery of TurretinFan, I got introduced to a quite lovely article by Arturo Vasquez that does a beautiful job of pushing back against the Mariophobic Response Syndrome that characterizes so much of anti-Catholic polemic. What TurretinFan regards as “inappropriate Mariolatry” is, in fact, simply Vasquez’ articulate defense of the piety that has sustained the ordinary faithful for two millennia while the clever boys with... Read more

More Victims. Read more

More Victims. Read more

Somehow, it always seems to come back to hailing China’s Visionary One Child Policy, doesn’t it? Read more

Somehow, it always seems to come back to hailing China’s Visionary One Child Policy, doesn’t it? Read more

Any thoughts on the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas? Put me down as completely opposed. Specifically: treat the guy like a terrorist or enemy combatant VS. a criminal suspect? Oh. That. Well, being as I am not a lawyer or any sort of person with any expertise in such matters, I basically haven’t given it any thought. My rude and uninformed opinion is, “We know he tried to murder a lot of people, so let’s put him in prison forever.”... Read more

Any thoughts on the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas? Put me down as completely opposed. Specifically: treat the guy like a terrorist or enemy combatant VS. a criminal suspect? Oh. That. Well, being as I am not a lawyer or any sort of person with any expertise in such matters, I basically haven’t given it any thought. My rude and uninformed opinion is, “We know he tried to murder a lot of people, so let’s put him in prison forever.”... Read more

A quirky take on the greatest timesuck ever invented. Read more

A quirky take on the greatest timesuck ever invented. Read more