A reader writes: I am a regular reader of your blog and I enjoyed the first of your Mary series. I also have the somewhat dubious privilege of having a blog on the Archdiocese of New York website — dubious because I have two actual jobs at the ArchNY, and this blogging thing takes a lot of time and energy, even though I do post far, far less often than you do. I recently posted two items about torture that... Read more

From our “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Dept.” we find James White being muddled up with Lunatic Pastor Steven Anderson by some newsite that specializes more in panic about Theocracy than in accuracy. Anderson garnered some attention over the past few weeks when he graduated from obsessing over urination to praying for Obama’s death. He’s been a focus of White’s wrath for some time because of his other obsession: the King James Version, God’s only Truly True Bible. Oh, and... Read more

Returning from my Secret Island Redoubt to begin another week of ordering followers around, I discover that the awesome power of Stairway to Gilligan’s Island has attracted a major spike in Followers. I’m not sure what that says about what people want to follow, but happily, mine is not to understand the mysterious mind of the Follower, merely to shape and mold it to my arbitrary and capricious will. In order to achieve that goal with maxiumum efficiency, I thought... Read more

Just a little something to make you miss me less while I’m gone. Read more

Just a little something to make you miss me less while I’m gone. Read more

A reader writes: If I could, I’d like to put in a prayer request. There’s good news! both my sisters are pregnant, the bad news is that the one who isn’t married and wasn’t trying to get pregnant is considering abortion because she doesn’t know what to do. The family at large doesn’t know about the situation yet, since she found out yesterday but she’d have lots of help with this child. Please pray that God touch her heart with... Read more

A reader writes: If I could, I’d like to put in a prayer request. There’s good news! both my sisters are pregnant, the bad news is that the one who isn’t married and wasn’t trying to get pregnant is considering abortion because she doesn’t know what to do. The family at large doesn’t know about the situation yet, since she found out yesterday but she’d have lots of help with this child. Please pray that God touch her heart with... Read more

I think stories like this are so great. There’s something so… I don’t know… unbridled about Asian craziness. There seems to be no concern about how it looks or sounds to normal people. I enjoy that. The last time we had something like this in the White House was with Nancy Reagan consulting psychics. But she did that on the QT and didn’t advertise it to the world. Not nearly as fun. What I say is: More Alien Abductions for... Read more

I think stories like this are so great. There’s something so… I don’t know… unbridled about Asian craziness. There seems to be no concern about how it looks or sounds to normal people. I enjoy that. The last time we had something like this in the White House was with Nancy Reagan consulting psychics. But she did that on the QT and didn’t advertise it to the world. Not nearly as fun. What I say is: More Alien Abductions for... Read more

There’s something about being out of power that seems to make political types in our country just go barking mad. We saw it with the 9/11 truthers and now we’re seeing it with the wingnuts who, when they aren’t obsessing over Obama’s birth certificate are raving about concentration camps and guillotines being set up all over America. Make not mistake, I think it quite possible that our nation is capable of going insane. We are not immune from the Fall... Read more