redefining crazed obsessive pettiness. Read more

So some nutjob with a history of violence, as well as of undressing his family, claiming to be the Messiah, and certitude that he can fly walks into a diner they other day and murders four local cops in cold blood. The response of the guy who granted him clemency?: Huckabee, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination last year, issued a statement tonight calling the slaying of the police officers “a horrible and tragic event.” If Clemmons is found... Read more

Where is everybody?: Three basic answers to Fermi’s Paradox: They’re not thereThey’re there, but not hereThey’re here, but we don’t know it More detailed answers: We’re it. Unique in the universe. They aren’t there, period. We’re first. We are the “elder race” of the universe. They aren’t there, yet. We’re last. They’re not there, any more. We’re alone. They’re not there, at the moment. We’re multifaceted. They’re there, but not here. Alien prokaryotes never hit on the idea of shacking... Read more

So I take off for the holidays and leave a little piece on Thanksgiving that I wrote for OSV. In the comboxes below, this utterly irrelevant bit of nastiness ensues: Check this out. Harsh. http://arturovasquez.wordpress.c…hahn-superstar/ Grace | | Email | Homepage | 11.29.09 – 11:27 pm | # ——————————————————————————– What?you’re not interested in hearing his conversion story for the umpteenth time?Debra | | 11.30.09 – 12:07 am | # ——————————————————————————– Debra: In a word: No!Anonymous So many things strike me... Read more

I talked to a friend of mine yesterday who left the Church because of the Abuse Scandal but who is now thinking of returning. He has been attending Another Leading Brand of Denomination and watching it circle the drain with its sundry embraces of abortion, gay sex and other contemporary trendinesses. He said, “When I left the Catholic Church, I said, ‘They’re just paying lip service to the gospel!’ Now I find myself thinking, ‘At least they pay lip service... Read more

Here’s something you Noo Yawkuhs might be interested in! Could there be a happier combination than Chesterton and Christmas? No! Emphatically no! By the way, please don’t send me “War on Christmas” angst in which I’m informed for the umpteenth time that some huge godless capitalist concern is no longer as interested in Christmas as a tool for engaging in Mammon worship as it was when you were a kid. Godless capitalism is what it has always been: godless capitalism.... Read more

Bruce screamed “Stop, stop, I don’t want this,” but her mouth was covered to muffle her pleas while Hodari forced her to have the abortion. Read more

…the remake of The Prisoner sucked, turning the whole moral universe of the original show on its head and portraying The Village as a happy secular consumerist paradise and Number 6 as a trouble-maker. Perfect corporate/state agitprop to numb the longings of the human heart that reminds me of this little fragment from Chesterton Ours, ours is the key O desolate crier, The golden key to what ills distress you Left without ever a God to judge you, Lost without... Read more

In addition to moral code, dietary code, prophets and indulgences, now add weekly fasting. And with the advent of Climaquiddick, the religion of Environmentalism now has its very own Donation of Constantine! Read more

I hope you had a restful Thanksgiving holiday. I am a regular reader and frequent commenter on your blog. I am watching “A Christmas Carol” right now, the version starring George C. Scott. I have a few questions for you. First, which version, and there are many, do you think is the best version of “A Christmas Carol”? The second, and this is a more theological question, is what do you think of Jacob Marley? Is he a soul released... Read more