The Nancy Kerrigan Principle states: “Just because you are a victim, doesn’t mean you can’t be a jerk too.” Palin’s Corollary states: Just because the MSM hates you and your child with visceral pre-rational hatred, doesn’t mean you are qualified to be President of the United States of America. I respect her care for Trig. I enjoy the schadenfreude that any normal person feels when the Freakish Enemies of the Normal twist themselves into knots over her eloquent personal witness... Read more

“I am changing the name of my blog from ‘The Daily Dish’ to ‘I Hate Sarah Palin and Can’t Stop Talking About Her“ Is there any evil to which she is not party? Is there any virtue, no matter how small, she doesn’t soil and (ahem) sully? Has there ever been a human being as purely loathsome as Sarah Palin? Andrew Sullivan would like to state for the record: NO! A THOUSAND TIMES! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!! And. he. MUST. tell. you. He…... Read more

My latest for the Register. Read more

Duelling With DarwinAn Evening With G.K. Chesterton Actor John Chalberg Tuesday, November 17, 7:30 P.M. Demaray Hall 150Seattle Pacific UniversitySeattle, Washington Sadly, I’ve got Scouts tonight. If anybody goes, lemme know how it went! Chalberg’s a good egg. I got to hang out with him a bit when we shot some Chesterton stuff down at EWTN a couple of years ago. Read more

that it’s nobody’s fault. Now let’s all us little people get on with the business of giving them more money and power! Nothing to see here. Read more

It turns out that coed dorms fuel sex and drinking. Research money well spent. Read more

“Birth of New Species Witnessed by Scientists” trumpets the headline. But then, as you read down you discover: No exact rule exists for deciding when a group of animals constitutes a separate species. That question “is rarely if ever asked,” as speciation isn’t something that scientists have been fortunate enough to watch at the precise moment of divergence, except in bacteria and other simple creatures. But after at least three generations of reproductive isolation, the Grants felt comfortable in designating... Read more

I have a question: how do you feel about the CCHD collection and the controversy surrounding it? It also seems like it’s more feigned outrage from the Right, but I am not too familiar with the situation. Thanks for your time. I’m afraid I haven’t followed that one very carefully. Something about ACORN or something, as I recall? I’m afraid I don’t know much about CCHD, nor about what it does, nor about its relationship to ACORN, nor about who... Read more

On the one hand, Robert Blair Kaiser is yet another lefty Catholic with the normal pelvic obsessions and daft Americanist secular messianic dreams of a Church purged of things that get in the way of his ego. On the other hand, I rather like the idea of putting Cardinal Mahony on trial and I especially like the idea of his behaving more like a disciple of Christ and less like an eel. I salute the uniform in his case, but... Read more

Sometimes even saints have contributions to make to political debates. Read more