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Head-snapping Cognitive Disson

Posted on March 29, 2011
Head-snapping Cognitive Dissonance.

DYLAN DOG: Dead of Night Official Trailer

Posted on March 27, 2011
From the Urban Fantasy Genre, Private Investigator Division.

How Great is the First Amendment.... letting

Posted on March 27, 2011
How Great is the First Amendment.... letting us play "Spot the Idiot" 24/7. Writing from a blog at the Jesuit university of Georgetown, Julie Patterson proudly displays a "Men, do not date this woman" sign for all to see by posting a screed about how much she hates children: I?ll come right out and say it: Children repulse me...

Krauthammer on "The Professor's

Posted on March 26, 2011
Krauthammer on "The Professor's War." Source. "This confusion is purely the result of Obama's decision to get America into the war and then immediately relinquish American command. Never modest about himself, Obama is supremely modest about his country...

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But don't Canadians normally talk

Posted on March 25, 2011
But don't Canadians normally talk like this? Not again: Another reporter lapses into gibberish on the air. No word yet on what the cause is. Paramedics swooped in to check him out but it sounds like they found nothing seriously wrong. He?s following up with his doctor but has no news to report yet...

Jeeper's, they promote abortion

Posted on March 25, 2011
Jeeper's, they promote abortion and gay-marriage and then they are surprised when this happens? San Francisco becoming a child-free zone as youth population declines. Despite efforts to stem the tide of family flight, the population of children in San Francisco continues to ebb...

RSA Animation - The Empathic Civilization. This

Posted on March 25, 2011
RSA Animation - The Empathic Civilization. This is another one of those RSA picture/lecture hybrids on recent advances in the science of empathy.

"Shut up, Crime." Alright, I'll

Posted on March 24, 2011
"Shut up, Crime." Alright, I'll admit it, I'm somewhat interested in seeing this movie.

Vive La France! Conrad Black pens

Posted on March 24, 2011
Vive La France! Conrad Black pens a tribute to French chauvinism, xenophobia and hypocrisy. Seriously. It contains gems such as describing Khadafi as "a a psychotic, mountebank nomad."  Then, there is this diamond of cultural analysis: France, in all its feline self-indulgence, was happy to claim for decades its tolerance and vocation for absorption and fraternization with the Arabs,

Silent Reading in Antiquity. I

Posted on March 24, 2011
Silent Reading in Antiquity. I am one of those who may have been hoodwinked into the myth that no one read silently to themselves in antiquity.  I say "may" because I'm not clear how much of a myth the myth is. The usual proof-text of this is a passage in St...

Like the swallows returning to

Posted on March 23, 2011
Like the swallows returning to Capistano, it is time for Time's annual Lenten "let's deconstruct the Judeo-Christian religious tradition with some non-news of dubious merit." This year it's the question of whether the Bible was revised to edit out "God's wife," Asheroth...

A visual parable of contemporary

Posted on March 22, 2011
A visual parable of contemporary political discourse. Via Ann Althouse. Leftists deface a statue.  Ann Althouse's husband, Meade, works to clean off the statue.  Two Leftists walk up to express their opposition to such vandalism, suggest that Tea Partiers were responsible for it, and watch Meade work without offering to help!  Contrast that with the older couple early in the video, who do

Father Barron has some theological

Posted on March 21, 2011
Father Barron has some theological problems with "The Adjustment Bureau." Under modernity, "the plan" competes with our freedom; under classical Christianity, "the plan" awakens our freedom.

Post-Modern Science Fiction is

Posted on March 21, 2011
Post-Modern Science Fiction is so Meaningless. Io9 offers a recap on the final flame-out of "V," a show where not much of anything happened and I came close to my rule about never rooting for the monsters when it's a matter of "Man v. Monster." (And I only watched the last 3 episodes...

The most aggresively inarticulate

Posted on March 20, 2011
The most aggresively inarticulate generation ever.

Ironies. According to the PJ Tatler. Barack

Posted on March 20, 2011
Ironies. According to the PJ Tatler. Barack Obama has now been responsible for firing more cruise missiles than all other Nobel Peace prize winners combined. He?s still in 2nd place for number of Arab deaths caused (and 3rd place for Muslim deaths) behind Yassir Arafat and Mikhail Gorbachev.

A blow to Science Fiction fans

Posted on March 20, 2011
A blow to Science Fiction fans everywhere. We are all alone and no one knows why. On the other hand, the reality of human uniqueness is equally chilling to those who stake their existence on the idea that humans are not unique. The first proposition, that we humans are unique and special, appears quite absurd...

Obama discovers that to Anti-American

Posted on March 19, 2011
Obama discovers that to Anti-American protesters all Americans look alike. Leftists protest Obama's visit in Rio. So much for the American president's strategy of triangulating himself between foreign countries and his nation.  Whether he likes it or not, he's one of us.

Abortion-related violence. Firebomb

Posted on March 19, 2011
Abortion-related violence. Firebomb thrown at pro-life vigil.  Steven Greydanus points out that this means it is officially "not news": Call the national media! A firebombing attack just took place an abortion center in Kalispell, Montana! Tea Party violence strikes again! Call the Department of Homeland Security! These Christian Taliban extremists must be stopped! Oh wait...

Conclusive arguments for Intelligent

Posted on March 19, 2011
Conclusive arguments for Intelligent Design. Cracked's list of "10 creepy plants that should not exist." The Chinese Fleeceflower: The Chinese use this plant in their traditional medicine for kidney health, strong bones and hair restoration, and as a mild laxative, and it's ...

I like this guy's obsesssion. Reviews

Posted on March 19, 2011
I like this guy's obsesssion. Reviews of Fringe and House with respect to bad science and illogical scientific behavior.

The Personally Opposed Shuffle. Bishop

Posted on March 18, 2011
The Personally Opposed Shuffle. Bishop Salvatore Cordileone points out some of the ironies involved in recent efforts to pack the deck against the expressed will of the voters concerning same-sex marriage: In an explicit denial of his public duty, the then attorney general of the state of California (now governor) refused to defend the law of the state in the Perry v...

Persecution. New report reveals

Posted on March 18, 2011
Persecution. New report reveals 75 percent of religious persecution is against Christians. In two-thirds of the countries where persecution of Christians is most severe, there are strong indications that the problem has worsened, the report claims. It also goes on to underline the severe threat to the Christian presence in parts of the Middle East, especially Iraq and the Holy Land...

Somehow it made the old Battlestar

Posted on March 18, 2011
Somehow it made the old Battlestar Galactica look smart and interesting. Io9's review of the last ever episode of "V."

If only Social Workers could marry;

Posted on March 18, 2011
If only Social Workers could marry; if only women could be Social Workers. New York Times details the extent of sexual and physical abuse of the developmentally disabled by Social Workers.  The article details some horrific examples of Social Workers whose sexual assaults were not investigated and who were transferred to other homes...

On John Dominic Crossan. Another

Posted on March 17, 2011
On John Dominic Crossan. Another author the time whose books I spent reading I will never get back.

Faith and Reason.

Posted on March 17, 2011
Faith and Reason.

Huh? Seriously? From the "if only

Posted on March 17, 2011
Huh? Seriously? From the "if only Astoria women could marry" file, Mark Shea points to this news article: An Astoria woman has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for raping a 14-year-old boy at a party. The Daily Astorian reports that 35-year-old Julie Diane Green pleaded no contest last Friday to rape and endangering the welfare of a minor...

More Irish Content... ...of the

Posted on March 17, 2011
More Irish Content... ...of the "Us against the British" genre. This one is a moving take during our days of terror, terrorists and terrorism. According to Wiki: The Patriot Game" is an Irish ballad about an incident during the Border Campaign launched by the Irish Republican Army during the 1950s to bring about the reunification of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland...

St. Patrick's Day - Official Irish

Posted on March 17, 2011
St. Patrick's Day - Official Irish Content Edition.

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