I don’t know anything about Milo Yiannopoulos. I’ve heard he’s a bully and he looks like a lounge lizard, but that’s all I know. My fellow Patheos bloggers can fill you in. So, if you were waiting with baited breath for my opinion on Milo, sorry, I don’t have one. I do have an opinion on something else, though. Yesterday, all of my friends were in uproar about a public conversation, about Milo Yiannopoulos, between Doctor Janet E. Smith and... Read more
This is what war is. Don’t skip that video. It’s less than a minute long. Watch the whole thing from beginning to end. Watch the part where they can hear the screaming but can’t find the little girl. Watch them tearing through the sand and rubble with their hands, trying to find her. Watch them knock pebbles out of her mouth when they get her face uncovered. See how she can’t move except to scream. Don’t look away. Don’t say anything about politics... Read more
Some nights I make meatloaf, and serve it with mashed potatoes. Last night I was too exhausted to stand up long enough to make meat loaf. I threw all the meat loaf ingredients, minus bread crumbs, into a skillet, browned them together with some frozen stir fry vegetables, named it “deconstructed meat loaf” and ate it on the sofa in front of my daughter’s X-Men video, which she’d been watching on and off all day. I remembered that Sunday was... Read more
The Great Fast is almost here. For the Latin church, Lent will begin on March First this year. I’m still trying to figure out when the Fast begins for the Eastern Church. I know that last Sunday was “Sunday of Meatfare” and next Sunday is “Sunday of Cheesefare” and as far as I can tell, we begin Lent Sunday evening after vespers– so, the twenty-sixth of February, sometime after dark. I am notoriously easily confused about times and seasons. At least... Read more
I have a quick message for a certain type of Trump supporter. Specifically, this message is for everyone out there who’s still answering every objection to TV’s Donald Trump with “But Hillary!” This is particularly for those people who dislike and fear Trump, didn’t want Trump in the first place, but keep reminding everyone that they voted for him and had to do it because Hillary Clinton would have been worse. Judging by my combox and the comment sections of my friends, there... Read more
It is said that good poets have drunk the honey mead that was distilled from the blood of Kvasir, who was himself formed from the saliva of the gods. Odin dispenses this mead himself, and to drink it is a privilege not given to many. It is said that bad poets have sipped a drop of that mead when it dribbled from Odin’s beak, during the episode in which he transformed into an eagle to steal it from the giants. In the version of... Read more
Well, that escalated quickly. Over the past couple of days, the Lepanto Institute’s Facebook page put up two memes, each muddling social justice and giving to the poor with the sin of Judas. I dialogued with the first meme myself the other day. The other meme implied that social justice and giving to the poor was the reason modern churches are so ugly, even though a modern design is just as expensive as a Baroque one. The meme coined the hashtag #Judaschurch to... Read more
The name “Lepanto” always makes me think of rabbits. For as long as I can remember, every time I hear “Lepanto” I automatically picture a knight in full jousting armor, holding an enormous dead chestnut-colored buck rabbit by the big hind feet and using it to smack people upside the head. “The Battle of Lepanto” brings to mind a whole field of knights in full jousting armor, hitting each other with rabbits. I couldn’t say why until I remembered that... Read more
I received a message from a reader whose husband is in the country illegally. After trying and trying since we were fianceed to get him legalized, after finally achieving a job where I almost made enough to sponsor him (I fell 1000 short this year) and after spending close to 1000 on multiple lawyer consultations alone, Trump got elected. We were going to fill out the i130, and then the 601a. We knew it was going to be difficult. The i130... Read more
My friend Nina just posted this on Facebook: Things I never thought I’d have to warn my kids about: school shooters and immigration sweeps. I worry that my kids will end up being rounded up by immigration in a sweep of “illegal aliens” at school. You might say that’s irrational, but when US Citizens who happen to have foreign sounding names are being targeted at airports and there are immigration sweeps happening at schools, it’s not a far fetched idea.... Read more
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