One of the blessings of not having a TV is that I don’t have to endure professional hysterics like Glenn Beck. Apparently, a few days ago, in one of his regular frenzies, he decided to stop freaking out about fascist dimes and instead switched his subtle and probing intellect over to hysterical declarations that Obama was a “racist” with “a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture”. Prescinding from the entertaining question of what “the white culture” even... Read more

… is now available on Vimeo! Funny guy. He goes to my parish. Read more

because it’s all about keeping men happy. Read more

go reeling on, doing what they were programmed to do by their programmer, Maciel. The Legionaries will have to dismantle the organization and get rid of every trace of dependence on Maciel. The problem is, what do you have left when you are done doing that? Read more

NRO offers a frank and open rejection of Christian teaching on forgiveness in favor of naked pagan morality. It’s a natural as the daylight of course. The first and most obvious pagan system of morality says, “Love your friends and hate your enemies.” It doesn’t take any big moral genius to figure that one out. Even the tax collectors do as much. We learn and live it automatically by the age of two. Precisely where revelation is necessary (both to... Read more

On May 7, 2005, the horror author Stephen King gave the commencement address to graduates at the University of Maine, his home state. In it, he half-joked: “If I show up at your house in ten years from now … and find nothing on your bedroom night table but the newest Dan Brown novel … I’ll chase you to the end of your driveway, screaming, ‘Where are your books? Why are you living on the intellectual equivalent of Kraft Macaroni... Read more

…because we were busy vandalizing a Church at the time. This is more or less what we always means when we declare somebody legally “innocent” in a fallen world. Read more

Readers write: Would you and your readers please pray for my marriage? While we were dating, my wife stated that she didn’t want children. I told her children were non-negotiable for me, and she changed her mind before we got married. We now have a 2 y.o. and another on the way. She recently told me that she regrets having children and resents me for insisting on having them. She stopped wearing her wedding ring two weeks ago. *** Could... Read more

Readers write: Would you and your readers please pray for my marriage? While we were dating, my wife stated that she didn’t want children. I told her children were non-negotiable for me, and she changed her mind before we got married. We now have a 2 y.o. and another on the way. She recently told me that she regrets having children and resents me for insisting on having them. She stopped wearing her wedding ring two weeks ago. *** Could... Read more

Today, my shuffling sycophants, I command you to check out the District 9 website. You can enter as a human or a non-human. Saw it last night. A great film (though not for children or the squeamish). That is all! Read more