Although the marital master making recommendations to the court agreed the child is “well liked, social and interactive with her peers, academically promising, and intellectually at or superior to grade level” and that “it is clear that the home schooling…has more than kept up with the academic requirements of the…public school system,” he nonetheless proposed that the Christian girl be ordered into a government-run school after considering “the impact of [her religious] beliefs on her interaction with others.” This is... Read more

Today, my simpering lackeys, I believe it is important for you to stamp out whatever residual traces of independent thought and will you might have so as to be utterly pliable putty for my capricious and arbitrary will. We Dark Lords like our minions dumb and eager. And I know of no better way to make yourself dumb than television. So without further ado (and purely for my sadistic pleasure): Any complaints and I post more baby pictures! Muhuwahahahahahaha! That... Read more

If you hunger and thirst for more Sheavings, check thou out my piece on The Stupid Prime Directive (and Eric Sammons’ response). It’s nice to know I’m not the only nerd in the blogosphere. Read more

disagrees with me about Nurse Jackie. My rather flip dismissal of the show is not something I’m particularly interested in going to the mat to defend. Mostly it’s the result of being a) extremely busy and b) weary of dramas and shows that make me feel like taking a shower afterward. Weariness is not an aesthetic or moral judgment. It’s just… weariness. Hamlet, Lear and Macbeth are great art. But there are times and moods when I would as soon... Read more

A reader writes: My husband has been in jail for a year due to a parole violation for trespassing. He went before the parole board yesterday and they will decide weather he can come home in 5 to 10 working days. He is 54 years old and has 5 heart stints, liver disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. Please pray that the board members find it in their hearts to let him come home. Pray to take the fear away... Read more

A reader writes: My husband has been in jail for a year due to a parole violation for trespassing. He went before the parole board yesterday and they will decide weather he can come home in 5 to 10 working days. He is 54 years old and has 5 heart stints, liver disease, diabetes and high blood pressure. Please pray that the board members find it in their hearts to let him come home. Pray to take the fear away... Read more

I’m not very up on Seventh Day Adventist anti-Catholic agitprop. I did not know, for instance, that (at least some) SDA’s have worked out rather elaborate scenarios of demons impersonating John Paul II as (yet another, prologue to the End Times). I guess everybody needs a hobby and endtimes speculations do the job for some. However, there’s always a danger that somebody will take this silly junk seriously (a process aided and abetted for those of sub-marginal reasoning powers by... Read more

I’m not very up on Seventh Day Adventist anti-Catholic agitprop. I did not know, for instance, that (at least some) SDA’s have worked out rather elaborate scenarios of demons impersonating John Paul II as (yet another, prologue to the End Times). I guess everybody needs a hobby and endtimes speculations do the job for some. However, there’s always a danger that somebody will take this silly junk seriously (a process aided and abetted for those of sub-marginal reasoning powers by... Read more

Sheild your eyes, lest her radiant cuteness permanently imprint itself on your retinas! Read more

Sheild your eyes, lest her radiant cuteness permanently imprint itself on your retinas! Read more