Here. Pretty good turnout, especially considering it’s Seattle. Read more

Years ago, a priest told a story from our parish pulpit about some priest he knew down in Portland who was making sandwiches for poor people and handing them out. The local news did a story on him and somebody sent him a check so he could buy more sandwich fixings. The priest sent the check back with a notes saying, “Make your own damn sandwiches.” The congregation gasped at the profanity, and the priest telling the story remarked, “The... Read more

A reader alerts me to the following exchange from the Corner: Sounds Like Torture to Me [Jonah Goldberg] I’ve always been on the fence about whether waterboarding constituted torture. But if the reports are true that the CIA used it scores of times in a single month on a single prisoner, than I think the threshhold has been met. Debating wether it was worth it still seems open to debate, depending on the facts. But I think waterboarding someone 183... Read more

People notice it. There’s a big fuss. Somebody wants to put criminals in jail. Even foreigners get into the act. My recommendation: Don’t do it. Then you don’t have to insult everybody’s intelligence by saying that waterboarding somebody 183 times in one monthisn’t torture. You don’t have to contradict yourself with absurdities like “It’s not torture and besides it terrifies its victims into telling us everything they know” (and a great deal of stuff that are lies told to make... Read more

For Clay, who has a brain tumor. Father, grant your son Clay complete healing from this illness and restore him in body, soul, and spirit through Jesus Christ, our Lord. Mother Mary and St. Luke, pray for him and all who love him and are caring for him. Read more

One of them writes: WASHINGTON (PEANUT) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano issued a non-apology apology to veterans after a report issued by her department said wild-eyed killers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at risk for being recruited by right-wing Xian extremists. “To the extent veterans read it as an accusation … an apology is owed,” she said during an on-air interview on FOX News Thursday, a day after veterans’ groups and members of Congress blasted... Read more

One of them writes: WASHINGTON (PEANUT) — Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano issued a non-apology apology to veterans after a report issued by her department said wild-eyed killers returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were at risk for being recruited by right-wing Xian extremists. “To the extent veterans read it as an accusation … an apology is owed,” she said during an on-air interview on FOX News Thursday, a day after veterans’ groups and members of Congress blasted... Read more

Ian McKellen Explains Acting to Ricky Gervais–with the Help of Bambi Read more

Ian McKellen Explains Acting to Ricky Gervais–with the Help of Bambi Read more

China’s official media and outspoken bloggers on Friday protested over a German advert promoting the use of condoms which shows revolutionary leader Mao Zedong as a sperm cell alongside Adolf Hitler and Osama bin Laden. Read more