The Nation Breathlessly Discovers that…not only did Jesus never exist and he was simultaneously married to Mary Magdalene, he was also gay!Of course, Morton Smith was exposed as a fraud. But since it’s just blaspheming Jesus, it doesn’t matter.I tingle with anticipation for when some genius at the Nation has the intestinal fortitude to invent a lie that Mohammed was gay. Read more

Readers I Can Do Without, Who Never Will be MissedAnother Reader for War Crimes writes:Your prescription seems altogether one-sided. In my comments on various web sites, I write quite often of the need in the liberal democracies to get rid of the poisons of sterility and once again take up the pleasures of having children. However, I also write of the need in liberal democracies once again to take up the pleasures of war joyously. To judge from your post… Read more

A reader writes:Looks like someones riding your coattails: http://www.markshea.blogpsot.com/Actually no. They are parasitic on *any* typo of “blogspot”www.orientalshrubbery.blogpsot.comwww.icaughtyouadeliciousbass.blogpsot.cometc. Read more

All 30 episodes of the Time Tunnel: Now Available on Hulu!I was a devoted fan when I was nine. Pure time travel awesomeness (until they started having the dumb silver-skinned aliens screwing around with stuff. Also, the one about the ghost of Nero was a low point. But there were also some great episodes!I used to argue with Rick Haugen while we waited for the school bus. Our bone of contention was always the same: whether Tarzan or the Time… Read more

This and this:reminds me of this:Then I heard another voice from heaven saying,”Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins, lest you share in her plagues; for her sins are heaped high as heaven, and God has remembered her iniquities. Render to her as she herself has rendered, and repay her double for her deeds; mix a double draught for her in the cup she mixed. As she glorified herself and played the wanton, so… Read more

Various Prayer RequestsA reader writes:My sister Erin Manning, author of the blog: And Sometimes Tea and occasional sit-in for Rod Dreher, was taken to the hospital Saturday night with odd back and leg pain and extremely high blood pressure. They kept her all day yesterday and are (hopefully!) releasing her today, (Monday, January 12th). She’s on medication, but no one seems to know what happened or why, so there’s still work to be done. Her whole extended family has been… Read more

Various Prayer RequestsA reader writes:My sister Erin Manning, author of the blog: And Sometimes Tea and occasional sit-in for Rod Dreher, was taken to the hospital Saturday night with odd back and leg pain and extremely high blood pressure. They kept her all day yesterday and are (hopefully!) releasing her today, (Monday, January 12th). She’s on medication, but no one seems to know what happened or why, so there’s still work to be done. Her whole extended family has been… Read more

Hmmmm….Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been forced to abstain from a United Nations resolution on Gaza that she helped draft, after Mr. Olmert placed a phone call to President Bush. “I said, ‘Get me President Bush on the phone,’ ” Mr. Olmert said in a speech in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, according to The Associated Press. “They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in… Read more

Hmmmm….Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel said Monday that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been forced to abstain from a United Nations resolution on Gaza that she helped draft, after Mr. Olmert placed a phone call to President Bush. “I said, ‘Get me President Bush on the phone,’ ” Mr. Olmert said in a speech in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon, according to The Associated Press. “They said he was in the middle of giving a speech in… Read more

When the History of This Time is Finally WrittenOne of the lasting marks of shame will be that so very many Christians, including Catholics, were willing to prostitute themselves to Leviathan and cheer for torture and war crimes. Here, for instance is born-again Christian Fred Barnes telling us 10 Things Bush Got Right. #2: Torture (under the euphemism “enhanced interrogation” and playing all the usual definitional monkey puzzle trick to try to pretend that water-boarding is not torture while forgetting… Read more