I’m taking advantage of the wifi service on the plane to plow through my mail and respond to some of the stuff that’s been piling up! Dallas and Oklahoma went well. Fr. Shane Tharp, my evil mirror universe twin, is well, though there is much less of him due, not to amputation, but to a spectacularly successful weight loss program he has been on for a couple of year. I feel like Jesus to his John the Baptist: he decreases... Read more

Greetings from Nicoma Park, OK! I’m staying at a rectory with Fr. Shane Tharp, the Catholic Ragemonkey, and have been conducting a parish mission at Our Lady of Fatima parish. I’m still buried in work and so can just post this once today, but I thought I’d play catchup. To begin with, I greet my 286 Followers with this latest dose of mind-numbing ephemera: Watch this video ten times, my pretties. Then, when your brain has been reduced to utter... Read more

Just checking in briefly cuz I gots bales o’ work to do. A reader writes: Please hold in prayer some friends who are six weesk pregnant. The wife lost her last baby at 8 weeks gestation.She is diabetic and in her early forties. They have a three year old. The untrasound today showed the baby may be in some trouble. Doctors say all they can do is hope and pray. Please ask for healing for the baby. In other news:... Read more

Recently, you got to join my shuffling horde of zombie virtual plastic bubble poppers, discuss the Darwin and ID, ponder Marley’s Ghost, contemplate aliens with Mike Flynn, boogie with Snoopy, note the odd similarity between Christopher Hitchens and Spike from Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, and gab about lotsa other stuff. And, of course, there’s the convivial atmosphere of the comments boxes where you can argue about Buffy vs. Angel, quibble over Latin, compare notes on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and... Read more

Sir Shea – Way back in July, there was talk of a Theology on Tap event on December 3rd. I stuck it on my calendar and forgot about it till now. Are you still coming? I’d love to here you speak, and I wanted to pick up a copy of Mary, Mother of the Son for my mother. Thanks for reminding me! As a matter of fact, yes! I will be in Dallas starting tomorrow and then I will be... Read more

to take the War for Christmas to a whole new level: HT: Sci Fi Catholic Read more

…that some folks in the GOP are thinking, “Boy! If we could pull that off it would be like old times again!”: http://www.theonion.com/content/themes/common/assets/onn_embed/embedded_player.swf?image=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Ffiles%2Fimages%2FZOMBIE_REAGAN_ARTICLE_11_23_09.jpg&videoid=99422&title=Zombie%20Reagan%20Raised%20From%20Grave%20To%20Lead%20GOP Read more

That apparently would be one of the banks that failed. Notice that the Lefty anti-war machine is so very very quiet about all this. So for that matter, is the Righty “Obama is the Incarnation of All Evil in the Universe!” machine. The insincerity of both tribes is palpable. Almost as palpable as the insincerity of Obama himself. Read more

She sends along this article she has written on the Fatherhood of God since she happened to cite me a couple of times. But the main thing is the subject itself. Our loss of the Fatherhood of God is inevitably reflected in a culture that continually attacks fathers and fatherhood. One of the most painful wounds our culture endures. I can’t count the number of people I’ve met who carry around deep and lasting wounds tied to their relationship with... Read more

In which we discuss Scientism as a faith system. Read more