Turns out Stupak is just another pol. Read more

…he’s doing well in school and thanks you for your prayers. He also asks: Forgive me for bringing this up so soon again, but if anyone can help with donations it would really be a big help. I know times are tough for everybody. Because of a state policy change, chances are slim of me finding a drug counseling job at my level which is why I am hammering away at these courses. At the end of January I will... Read more

Here’s Fr. Barron commenting perceptively on the Vamp craze: And John Granger, the Hogwarts Professor, turns his lit crit acumen on to the Mormon roots of the Twilight Craze: “The Dean of Harry Potter Scholars” takes on the Twilight Series Author John Granger, whom Time Magazine has called “the Dean of Harry Potter Scholars” focuses his expertise on the popular Twilight vampire chronicles in the November/December issue of Touchstone: A Journal of Mere Christianity. “Mormon Vampires In The Garden of... Read more

postmodernized. Read more

Today, my suckups and toadies, I command you to contemplate Sigur Ros, an Icelandic band given to vast symphonic musical landscapes, cryptic scenes of happy children banding together to fly away from Nordic volcanic wastelands, and lyrics written in a made up language called “Hopelandic”. I live to improve your lives. Read more

Only the members of our Ruling Classes in the Political Mainstream can be trusted. So we should redouble our faith in exactly the people who have demonstrated a 90% failure rate in getting us H1N1 vaccine and we should entrust the recovery of the economy to exactly those people who caused the catastrophe in the first place and we should listen to just those people who stampeded us into Iraq and screwed the pooch in Afghanistan because they are seasoned... Read more

And with that, I’m outta here! Later, dudes! Read more

…to the Mormon readers in this thread who have take such painstaking effort to demonstrate my point that no adult conversion to Mormonism can possibly be the result of the exercise of critical thinking skills. You contributions have done far more than my poor power to persuade anybody on this point. Read more

…some people still care enough about the empty-headed backchat of MoDo to bother refuting it. You may as well refute a parrot. The woman is a clever vendor of phrases that tickle the ears of NY Bobos. She hasn’t had an actual thought in years. She doesn’t write. She types. The living instantiation of the Chattering Class. Read more

…in the minds of people who think publishing Richard Dawkins’ thoughts on the Catholic Church is a serious contribution to our national conversation. Read more