Oh, Irony… The White House Visitors Office requires that an unborn child—still residing in utero—must be counted as a full human being when its parents register for a White House tour, according to documents obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. White House Visitors Office director Ellie Schafer sent an email to a Capitol Hill staffer Tuesday morning explaining the process for registering an unborn fetus for a White House tour: We have received a number of calls regarding how to... Read more
Geek Palate Cleanser. I love geeks. Read more
“And now,” cried Max, “let the wild rumpus start!” [But] Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. [He] stepped into his private boat and waved goodbye, and sailed back over a year, and in and out of weeks, and through a day and into the night of his very own room, where he found his supper waiting for him. And it was still hot. For all of... Read more
1) The child. That child in the lace-and-satin gown and with two cowlicks, like some twice-blessed prince, and wearing the haughtiest expression I have ever seen on a six-week old? The one I call “Buster” because he is such a one? He got a C+ in the must-pass class, and a couple of A’s and B’s besides. School is finally out. For. Ever. There will be no grad school This child has been itching to be out of school since... Read more
It’s too fabulously stupid, and I want to fly them. I must show this to my son Appa’s fiance, Kitty! (Reuters / PICHI CHUANG) Can you imagine terrorists on Hello Kitty Airlines? I have to believe that the people who would fly Kitty would be warriors on behalf of her fancy fuselage; stamping their pink Mary Janes, they’d declare “you’re threatening to blow up all of these hallowed images of Hello Kitty? I don’t think so…Hello Kitty is much too... Read more
Help me out here — I’m having a really hard time believing this is real, via the AP’s Hyung-Jin Kim: SKorea finds smuggled capsules contain human flesh: South Korea has seized thousands of smuggled drug capsules filled with powdered flesh from dead babies, which some people believe can cure disease, officials said Monday. The capsules were made in northeastern China from babies whose bodies were chopped into small pieces and dried on stoves before being turned into powder, the Korea... Read more
When a friend of mine sent this clip from the Colbert Report — a chat between Steven Colbert and Georgetown’s Father Thomas Reese on why Paul Ryan’s budget bothers Catholics — I expected to like it. I like Colbert. I like Jesuits. I like Father Reese. Though I’m not a Ryan “fan” he seems smart, and I like the idea (the very novel idea!) of an actual budget being proposed within our government. And yet, I found myself not much... Read more
Forget tormenting an animal. Forget minimal risk. Forget all of that. Forget the sick exhibitionism that makes everyone put everything they do on youtube; heck, I watched it, so there you go. People exhibit because other people will look. No, what was going through my head while I watched was: “you put your baby on a filthy public floor, where people have been traipsing all kinds of filth around all day?” I mean, I wasn’t exactly the mom with the... Read more
There is a saying attributed to St. Gregory of Nyssa, that I used to keep up on my header: “Ideas lead to idols; only wonder leads to knowing.” I wonder about that phrase often, and continually draw new understanding as I apply it to different subject matters. It reminds me that I am not only free to ponder, but that as a Catholic, I am (quite contra-CW) required to think. Not to give in to the soft tyranny of sentimentalism... Read more
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