Any video containing the words, “In the interest of science, I will now drink beer out of the magnet” has to be cool. Read more

Time was when “criticism of liberalism was subject to the standards of good literature and the demands of logic, with stalwarts like Albert J. Nock, T.S. Eliot, and Richard M. Weaver at the helm,” nowadays, “conservative offerings come with diagrams of farting cows—bless Glenn Beck” — Party Favors. The author continues: No one is likely to have his worldview rocked by Sean Hannity’s Deliver Us From Evil or his political eyes opened by Michelle Malkin’s Unhinged. Laura Ingraham’s Shut Up... Read more

Michael Ruse laments that intolerant foaming zealots like Dawkins and Myers are giving atheism a bad name. He’s perfectly right, of course. And if he pays attention to the history of mass atheist movements, he will notice a certain tendency to spill oceans of blood toward which they tend to gravitate with startling speed. That’s because the human race is fallen and has devised various strategies, religious, cultural, and political, for trying to impede our downhill slide. Most of these... Read more

We stopped trying to get bin Laden eons ago. We’ve started trying to integrate the Taliban back into the failed narcostate we are propping up with blood and treasure. So… why are we asking our exhausted and valiant troops, who have been so badly used by our Ruling Classes, to keep on suffering for our experiment in nation-building? The principal victories against al-Quaida have been through police work. Meanwhile, we send weary troops back for third tours. To what end? Read more

An honest Protestant reader asks concerning Peter Sean Bradley’s recent argument with a group of people who were insisting that he worships Mary: I follow the argument but isn’t the real question whether or not prayer is a form of worship? If prayer is worship, then isn’t praying to Mary a form of idolatry? This is an honest question and one that cannot be avoided – not “fear” from a Protestant who doesn’t want to hear the truth. Bowing a... Read more

Today, my young padawans, I command you to go click on Darth Vader sound files and feel what it’s like to be me! Mazeltov! Read more

A reader writes: I know you probably get a lot of prayer requests to post to your blog but I felt moved to ask for prayers for a family from my daughters’ Catholic School. Their 10 year old son was killed on Halloween by being crushed by a wind blown, fallen tree. It is devastating. The mother is my daughter’s teacher and the boy’s brother also attends the school. Father, hear our pray for the repose of this child’s soul... Read more

And everybody is wrong. The invaluable Mike Flynn upsets the apple cart with, you know, facts and stuff. It ain’t what folks know that’s the problem, it’s what they know that ain’t so. – Josh Billings Read more

First, this sounds like a great B Sci Fi movie idea. Second, somebody is going to blame this on global warming climate change. Just you wait and see. Read more

but since Israel is immaculately conceived, it’s undoubtedly really her fault. The only real question is “How do we figure out some way of saying she had it coming?” Read more