Chris Johnson and readers debate which is the great Chuck Jones cartoon ever. Read more

She writes: I blogged about you today as an entry in Fallible Blogma’s Support a Catholic Speaker Month. Gawrsh! Thanks! You shouldn’t have! Speaking of speaking, I’m gonna be all over tarnation (well, actually, *our* nation) the next couple months: October 19-21 Guesting on Al Kresta Live @ 2:20 PM Pacific time. Topic: Mary, Mother of the Son. October 29 7:00 PM St. Mark’s Parish, Shoreline, WA. Topic: The Faith Once Given: Exploring the Creed. A Trinity Formation Resources Presentation.... Read more

I emailed you a while back, and said that I needed for your readers to pray for me to help me find a law job. It has been a rough ride, but, I found a job with a homeless shelter doing legal work. I just wanted to extend a “thank you” to your readers. I try to be one of the lepers that comes back to thank Christ, rather than just reveling in the minor victory. (Luke 17:12-19) Thanks be... Read more

Lucy comes in for her first serious competition with the birth of the latest contender: Elizabeth Christina Price. (Yay! Congratulations Dale and Heather!) It was touch and go for a few days there as the crown appeared to wobble slightly on the Cuteness’ brow. But fortunately, her parents, parhaps sensing the ominous threat of Growing Cuteness in the East, instinctively chose to make this the hour to go full nuclear with BLINDINGLY CUTE YOUTUBE FOOTAGE OF THE CUTENESS!!!!: And so... Read more

is summed up in this quote: They vowed to follow the tenets of Islam that mandate the good treatment of prisoners. In my case, they unquestionably did. They gave me bottled water, let me walk in a small yard each day and never beat me. That’s David Rhode, describing the treatment he received at the hands of the Taliban. “Yes, but aren’t you overlooking the fact that he was a hostage?” Not at all. Indeed, he was in precisely the... Read more

“Scientists find evidence that heterosexuality is written into the biology of living beings, work has promise for eliminating barriers to homosexuality.” Because a) what possible difference could there be between fruit fly sexuality and human sexuality? and b) What could it possibly hurt to start genetically engineering human sexual orientation? Only a fool would characterize that as something other than “promise”! I sure am glad that the Islamosphere is the sole source of danger to the human race and that... Read more

that homosexuality and narcissism are so often like peas and carrots. I thought nothing became his office so much as his leaving of it. But, still a massive narcissist, he couldn’t leave well enough alone: he had to write this book steeped in self-regard, score-settling, immaturity and, well, narcissism and wreck even that. It’s all about him. Now I fear “Weakland: The Rehab Tour!” will have to follow, in which he will figure out a way to make his grotesque... Read more

A reader writes: This was next to teasers for stories on “Hollywood’s Hottest New Starlets,” “The Tatooed Ladies of Hollywood (complete with a tatoo above the buttocks),” “Hottest Female Athletes,” “Real or Fake [Breasts]?”, and “Britney Spears – Then to Now” I’m sure glad God chose us to impose our culture on the benighted nations of the world that need uplift out of the darkness of strong family ties, traditional morality and lack of fascination with technological triumphalism. Read more

First, Fr. Shane Tharp (or somebody claiming to be him) shows up in my comboxes after a long absence, though recent reports strongly indicate that the Fr. Shane I know has been replaced by a body double so ineptly chosen by KAOS that he looks nothing like the original I met, more like some trained ninja assassin with sleek lines and catlike reflexes. However, I’ll play along and say “Howdy, ‘Father Shane’! Glad the ‘weight loss and exercise program’ is... Read more

Today, me hearties, I bid you listen to this Scripture meditation by Prof. Michael Barber, America’s Cuddliest Scripture Scholar: http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7101213&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1 Sunday, October 18, 2009: Liturgy Reflection from JP Catholic University on Vimeo. Read more