Today, I have five crates of books to sign and send back to Catholic Answers, as well as sundry errands to run and an essay to write. So: ciao! Read more

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c 4th of July Under Attack www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Jeff Goldblum Seattle abounds with such annoying people. I’ve been to the Gasworks Extravaganza once. The traffic is murder and I’m never doing it again. But the notion that this is an environmental hazard is preposterous. By the way, you can see fireworks at Gasworks in “Sleepless in Seattle”, a film which never lets you see that Tom Hank’s... Read more

I also think him deeply prophetic. But I don’t think him infallible. So, though people are sending me links to this denunciation: A reader says that he recently picked up a 2008 reprint of Chesterton’s Everlasting Man. And our reader was surprised to find a disclaimer by the publisher on the title page: “This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would if it were written today. Parents might wish to... Read more

Waterboarding only 3 people causes over 100 deaths! Cuz we weren’t torturing people or anything. Why, those especially tricky terrorist types no doubt *deliberately* died just in order to make the Bush/Cheney policies of enhanced interrogation look bad. Besides, even if it was “torture” it was necessary to keep us safe! And even if it wasn’t necessary to keep us safe, they had it coming! And even if they might not have had it coming (given the fact that 80%... Read more

First, he is meeting with Catholic press today. Then, on July 10, he will be meeting the Pope. Hopefully, some exposure to Catholics in their natural habitat will have some effect for the good. I always tend to be doubtful with pols, but we’ll see. Read more

or the Internet! Or Myspace! Or, well, at least one Myspace site: Just thought I’d direct your attention–if it hasn’t been directed in that direction already–to something that was recently posted on the American Chesterton Society blog, about an artist who has written a song entitled “Innocent Smith”…and I needn’t tell you what the song is about, I am sure!! You can find it here. Then, go to the music player on the side and scroll down to the song,... Read more

I can sort of buy the props from Astaire since both had similar mass appeal (though Astaire on a bad day still towers over Jackson). Sinatra, well, what can I say? Mark Twain thought Joan of Arc his best book. Sometimes artists are not great critics. But it’s the rest of the piece that is, well… to paraphrase the Man himself: Read it. Just read it. The comboxes are also beyond parody, especially when we get to the “Mine’s bigger”... Read more

Exxxxcellent! As a reward for my labors in swelling my ranks and in celebration of my greatness in berating you into making new recruits for my legion of shuffling zombies, I hereby present you with another fine piece of 80s art: It pains me to have to do that. I am a warm and fuzzy Dark Lord. Padding around the inner recesses of the Dark Tower in my pink muffy slippers, I often pause in my brooding to think fondly... Read more

More Flash cartoon strangeness from the Masters. Read more

Nobody is celebrating his perversion and he has a God-given right to expect that everybody does. As do we all! Help! I’m being oppressed! Read more