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Great Moments in Journalism. After

Posted on September 12, 2010
Great Moments in Journalism. After making Pastor Terry Jones a star in order to depict Christian Americans as intolerant rubes, the media now wants to make him a martyr to free speech by exercising all the grace and style of Joseph Goebbels. Newsbusters advises: In what had to be the ultimate in condescension and elitism, MSNBC's "Morning Joe" brought Pastor Terry Jones on the show merely to

Hollywood once again distorting

Posted on September 11, 2010
Hollywood once again distorting the sacred to sell popcorn. Yes, of course, I will undoubtedly go to this movie.  But as with Legion - also starring Paul Bettany - I will snort at every theological blunder I see, as in "why are angels vulnerable to bullets?" Particularly the part where crucifixes get turned into Ninja-style throwing stars.

I feel Mark Driscoll's frustration. After

Posted on September 10, 2010
I feel Mark Driscoll's frustration. After reading the Twilight series, my 13 year old daughter said, "Daddy, I don't think it's good to go out with a boy who wants to kill you."  I said, "That's right, honey, not even a little." Pastor Mark Driscoll has apparently discovered "Kids Fantasy" by way of his 13 year old daughter...

Don't Burn the Koran - Burn the

Posted on September 10, 2010
Don't Burn the Koran - Burn the National Catholic Reporter... ...and some books by Hans Kung! Acts of the Apostasy reports: A little-known central Kansas Catholic blogger has announced that he will burn a copy of the National Catholic Reporter on his front lawn on Monday September 13, the Memorial of St John Chrysostom...

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Jobs that Americans won't do. There

Posted on September 10, 2010
Jobs that Americans won't do. There shouldn't be any.  Here's a story about a new attorney who was laid off from a $160,000 litigation job and is hiring herself out to clean homes. Good for her.  I bet that she has a housecleaning empire in a few years.

Great Moments in Public Speaking. Via

Posted on September 10, 2010
Great Moments in Public Speaking. Via NRO. Jonah Goldberg observes: You love this guy?s enthusiasm? Mother of pearl. This dude is terrifying. If I read the speech, I?d be on board. But jeez, if there was a kitten on the platform, he?d kick it across the room just to hammer home his plan to reform the recycling procedures of the Stark County Treasurers? office...

Shut up about the Ground Zero Mosque

Posted on September 10, 2010
Shut up about the Ground Zero Mosque or Die! Paul Mirengoff points out that Feisal Abdul Rauf is now claiming that Americans face reprisals if the Ground Zero Mosque isn't built: In an interview with CNN's Soledad O'Brien last night, Feisal Abdul Rauf claimed that U...

Governor Christie for President! Governor

Posted on September 10, 2010
Governor Christie for President! Governor Christie deals with a teacher.  The teacher delivers a long-winded politcal speech disguised as a question, and, then, when Christie responds begins to roll her head like an 8 year old.  That opens the door for Christie to deal with the reality of her behavior and the facts of educational economics in New Jersey...

Just another pc urban legend. The

Posted on September 10, 2010
Just another pc urban legend. The factoid that 1 in 4 college have been raped is a product of ideology, not science.

If government funded leftist elitists

Posted on September 10, 2010
If government funded leftist elitists burn an American flag, desecrate a Eucharist, put a crucifix into a jar of urine, and it's all a healthy display of First Amendment protected speech.... ...but if a chickenshit little church decides to burn a few Korans, its a grave threat to life as we know it...

"The wonder is not that Obama is

Posted on September 09, 2010
"The wonder is not that Obama is angry at criticism, but why he is so surprised in a weird ?how dare they?? fashion." Victor Davis Hanson analyzes Obama's singularly thin-skin: This is an old story with a long heritage. We know Obama got into Columbia; we have no idea what he accomplished there ? or whether his undergraduate transcript merited admission to Harvard Law School...

Fun Stuff. 6 things from the past

Posted on September 09, 2010
Fun Stuff. 6 things from the past that we imagine wrong.

If only Afghans could marry.... I

Posted on September 09, 2010
If only Afghans could marry.... I didn't know this: Western forces fighting in southern Afghanistan had a problem. Too often, soldiers on patrol passed an older man walking hand-in-hand with a pretty young boy. Their behavior suggested he was not the boy's father...

Pretty amazing video. Internal

Posted on September 08, 2010
Pretty amazing video. Internal closed circuit tv video from a ship in heavy seas. Watching the tables and chairs slide across the floor made me sea sick.

Hawkings, Scientific Faith and

Posted on September 08, 2010
Hawkings, Scientific Faith and the Limits of Proving a First Cause. From some correspondence on the Hawkings' statement about God. Russ writes: However, while the Aristotelians/Thomists among us are clearly committed to their first cause argument, I?ve never been able to see a significant logical reason why the ?first cause? could not simply be the principles of physics: energy and matter

Of Turtles and God's Necessary

Posted on September 08, 2010
Of Turtles and God's Necessary Existence. Just Thomism writes: One way to consider the Five Ways:a.) Resolve to only speak per se and universally or, as the Oxford translation puts it, to speak predicates of subjects that are commensurately universal (See Posterior Analytics, Bk 1 c...

Victor Davis Hanson on College

Posted on September 08, 2010
Victor Davis Hanson on College Professors. A great piece that seems to ring true, present company excepted, of course. This story is amazing: The following is a true example of academic parsimony. A colleague of ours proved to be a gruesome murderer ? tried, convicted, imprisoned (he died in prison)...

Interesting observation about our

Posted on September 07, 2010
Interesting observation about our weirdly Martian president. Vox Day observes: You can take the boy out of the madrassah But you can't entirely take the madrassah out of the politician that the boy becomes. Obama whines about his "some powerful interests" and their opinion of him: ?Some powerful interests that have been setting the agenda in Washington for a long time, and they?re not

Deconstructing Victor Stenger. A

Posted on September 07, 2010
Deconstructing Victor Stenger. A Thomistic response to the argument that the absence of evidence is evidence of absence.

Transgender - the rest of the story. It

Posted on September 07, 2010
Transgender - the rest of the story. It was big news a few years ago when L.A. Times sportswriter Mike Penner announced that he was going to "transition" into a woman.  Apparently, things didn't work out for him. He committed suicide a few years later...

Those remarkable ancients. 10

Posted on September 07, 2010
Those remarkable ancients. 10 Lost Technologies.

For those of us who thought that

Posted on September 07, 2010
For those of us who thought that repressed memories were nothing but a load of horse manure... ...we were right. "Repressed memories do not exist": The idea that traumatised people, especially the victims of child sexual abuse, deliberately repress horrific memories goes all the way back to the 19th century and the theories of Sigmund Freud himself...

Drunk history. This is odd.

Posted on September 07, 2010
Drunk history. This is odd.

Science and Metaphysics. John

Posted on September 04, 2010
Science and Metaphysics. John Lennox responds to Stephen Hawkings' claim that the Universe could have formed itself because of the "law of gravity" by pointing out that the "law of gravity" - without a lawgiver - is simply a description of things, not the cause of things: But contrary to what Hawking claims, physical laws can never provide a complete explanation of the universe...

The Reconquista. Parts of Arizona

Posted on September 03, 2010
The Reconquista. Parts of Arizona are under functinal control by Mexican gangs: And blogger the Hyacinth Girl has experienced the warnings firsthand: On a recent trip to Phoenix, I pulled off the I-8 to let the dogs out and let the kid get her wiggles out...

Book Burning. This silly video actually

Posted on September 02, 2010
Book Burning. This silly video actually provides a quite interesting prespective on the formation of the Islamic canon.

The Dating Life. Man replaces

Posted on September 02, 2010
The Dating Life. Man replaces girl friend with exact replica sex doll: A KINKY businessman couldn't bear it when his girlfriend dumped him - so he paid £15,000 to recreate her as a life-sized sex doll. The 50-year-old man took a collection of snapshots of his ex and told adult toy maker Diego Bortolin: "I want it just like her but with bigger boobs...

Bakersfield in the News. Doctor

Posted on September 02, 2010
Bakersfield in the News. Doctor dies in chimney while stalking ex-boyfriend: A doctor involved in an "on-again, off-again" relationship apparently tried to force her way into her boyfriend's home by sliding down the chimney, police said Tuesday. Her decomposing body was found there three days later...

Round 2... ...of the Great Recession

Posted on August 30, 2010
Round 2... ...of the Great Recession is heading our way.

Lyrical History. I remember the

Posted on August 29, 2010
Lyrical History. I remember the Kingston Trio's song about "Charley, the man who never returned,"  who was condemned to ride the MTA underneath Boston because he lacked the nickel to get off the train.  It was a cute, catchy jingle. What I didn't know is that it was a campaign song and the part about "vote for George O'Brien" was a real solicitation to vote for an actual candidate in a Boston

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