when you could be reading John C. Wright dilating on Rex Reason and Faith Domergue, Space Princess; not to mention the Big Bang and the First Cause argument. The dude is way funner than me! Plus, Michael Flynn is, like, a regular commenter over there, which ups his cool factor to, like…. 11! Read more

including the enormous damage created by Fr. Maciel. It will be interesting to see if the Legionaries sell off things like the National Catholic Register and Zenit. I’d like to see it happen, since it seems to me that Maciel rather carefully constructed his organization to enshroud his reputation with lies and his considerable gifts as a bureaucrat and organizer of genius have succeeded in creating an organization that goes on doing what he designed it to do long after... Read more

A reader writes: Because it’s good to pray for people you don’t really know, would you mind praying for Koko Taylor? The Queen of Blues died on June 3, 2009 at the age of 80. Her cover of Wang Dang Doodle is an American classic. Also, would you mind praying that I might conquer an habitual fault that is so habitual I don’t really envision the possibility of conquering it? Another reader writes: Please pray for my friend Don. His... Read more

A reader writes: My thanks for the successful intercession of you and your commenters during my recent bout of unemployment: I have accepted an acceptable offer. Adiutorium nostrum in nomine Domine, Qui fecit coeli et terram. For those who do not know Latin, I will provide a translation free of charge. It means, “Goodbye, Tori. Do not strum in the name of the Lord, but fetch the jelly and the terrarium.” People are always amazed to discover my command of... Read more

Read your freakin’ Necronomicon! You don’t think these things just *happen*, do you? Read more

Smiling Warmly at Evil Just So Long as Everybody Feels Good About Themselves Read more

What is the Intolerable Compliment, you ask? Click here. Read more

…could use some tinkering in the editorial dept. Every once in a while, I get people writing me about this or that Catholic news outlet, declaring that because they ran this story or that editorial, the whole thing should be closed and padlocked. I don’t think there is a single Catholic news organ in the English-speaking world I haven’t gotten this complaint about and the solution always seems to be the same: shut them down! Me: I think you will... Read more

You may be asking yourself, “What does homosex have to do with the mission of NASA?” Answer: nothing whatsoever. But it is necessary for all sectors of society to bow before the Homosexualist proposition that tolerance is not enough. You. MUST. Approve. Failure to do anything less than celebrate homosex will NOT be tolerated. Read more

“If the poor be like to die, then they had better do it and help decrease the surplus population.” Reader Kathleen Lundquist responds to our advocate of Survival of the Fattest here. Read more