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President Narcissus According

Posted on April 19, 2010
President Narcissus According to Mark Shea: Americans, being Americans, tend to have Not One Clue about the significance of events in what The African Queen's Charlie Allnut called "all them little countries". So when the nation of Poland experienced perhaps its greatest trauma since World War II in the decapitation of it government by a plane crash (a tragedy made twice as bitter by the fact

The Perennial Heresy. Hre is an

Posted on April 17, 2010
The Perennial Heresy. Hre is an interesting essay on Jansenism. In general, Jansenism was a Catholic splinter in the direction of Calvinism that developed about the same time that Arminianism splintered away from Calvinism in the direction of Catholic theology...

Weeding out the Filth. Knoxville

Posted on April 17, 2010
Weeding out the Filth. Knoxville Bishop Richard Stika takes prompt action after learning of sexual misconduct that occurred between 1975 and 1980. Bishop Stika sounds like he's learned the lesson of the Long Lent.

Dawkins learns that the Pope won't

Posted on April 17, 2010
Dawkins learns that the Pope won't be arrested. Another "Downfall" parody.

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And then they get together at the

Posted on April 16, 2010
And then they get together at the wine bar and wonder why men are such pigs.... CNN advises "nice guys" to become selfish, misogynistic jerks: This nice guy backlash may sound unpleasant, but some men blame women who disregard the nice guy as an option...

Cool Graph. Steve Sailer has this

Posted on April 15, 2010
Cool Graph. Steve Sailer has this interesting chart that correlates political viewpoint and voter turnout with cable viewership.

Faith-based secularism. The Times

Posted on April 15, 2010
Faith-based secularism. The Times Online offers advice to the Catholic Church on how to solve its "crisis": Best way forward Bring in married priests and women priests. End ban on artificial contraception. Rescind doctrine of papal infallibility...

The Spendthrift living off of Christian

Posted on April 15, 2010
The Spendthrift living off of Christian moral capital begins to worry about bankruptcy. Characteristically twenty years behind the times, Dawkins is quoted as being concerned about the possible elimination of Christian faith in Europe: Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, said: ?There are no Christians, as far as I know, blowing up buildings...

Why women are less likely to be

Posted on April 15, 2010
Why women are less likely to be monogamous with "friends." The post on "casual sex" got a lot of commenter attention, which was odd to me, since I posted it as a way of setting up the joke in the headline.  In any event this factoid struck me as counter-intuitive: Being sexually involved with a friend increased the likelihood of not being monogamous by 44 percent for women and 25 percent for

Spiking another urban legend. CNS

Posted on April 15, 2010
Spiking another urban legend. CNS observes about the recent kefuffle concerning the "Vatican's apology to the Beatles": Many news headlines over the past week contained some variant of: ?Vatican forgives/makes peace with/absolves the Beatles!? It came after the Vatican newspaper, L?Osservatore Romano, published an article April 10 praising the pop group, saying their ?beautiful melodies are

A Canticle for Liebowitz. Returning

Posted on April 15, 2010
A Canticle for Liebowitz. Returning last night from "guest-teaching" a class on early Christian history - thanks, Jim - I was reflecting on Walter Miller, Jr.'s "A Canticle for Liebowitz."  I was thinking that it was possibly the best book I have ever read in terms of historical scope, humor, suspense, characters and literary qualities...

Eternal light. Anthony Flew has

Posted on April 15, 2010
Eternal light. Anthony Flew has passed away. Now he knows the answer.

Australian Journalist asks, "Why

Posted on April 15, 2010
Australian Journalist asks, "Why not bomb the Vatican, and riddle the Pope with bullets as he staggers out of the flames?" Bob Ellis, a political journalist writing on Australia's state-run media website - ABC - offers this thought experiment: No-one has yet suggested bombing the Vatican and pursuing the Pope through the sewers of Europe till he is caught and riddled with bullets in order to

Videotaping the Police "So A Man

Posted on April 14, 2010
Videotaping the Police "So A Man In Plain Clothes And An Unmarked Car Cuts You Off And Pulls A Gun..." If this traffic stop hadn't been recorded, no one would believe it, but it seems that the police have pushed back by serving a search warrant on the driver, confiscating all of his computers and charging him with unlawful audiotaping...

The Argument from Social Autism. Vox

Posted on April 13, 2010
The Argument from Social Autism. Vox Day observes: Since, ironically enough, it is Richard Dawkins who has openly minimized the damage to children from sexual abuse, it is obviously the Pope's Catholicism that he wishes to prosecute, not the Pope's suboptimal human resources management 25 years ago...

Red Dawn. With any luck, the movie

Posted on April 13, 2010
Red Dawn. With any luck, the movie my cousin is directing won't be a total sellout.

A recovery is coming... ...says

Posted on April 13, 2010
A recovery is coming... ...says Larry Kudlow, and conservatives shouldn't be in denial about it.

Fair enough. I can accept and

Posted on April 13, 2010
Fair enough. I can accept and respect this observation from Catallaxy: Athiests are people who say there is no god and so are non-religious. The anti-religious, however, are bullies who want to impose their views and lifestyles on the rest of the population ? they should be treated with the same contempt as we do everyone else who know how to live our lives better than we do.

Richard Dawkins - supporter of

Posted on April 13, 2010
Richard Dawkins - supporter of pedophilia. From Skeptic Lawyer: That apart, Dawkins is also capable of nuance on this point. In The God Delusion, he makes a cogent case (based partly on his own experience of being molested by a school teacher) that we as a society are far too hung up about ?improper sexualisation?, and that we are just going to have to accept that sometimes authority figures

Good News. 10 Signs that we are

Posted on April 12, 2010
Good News. 10 Signs that we are in a recovery.

Aquinas and Intelligent Design. Interesting

Posted on April 12, 2010
Aquinas and Intelligent Design. Interesting discussion.

Diversity matters on the Supreme

Posted on April 12, 2010
Diversity matters on the Supreme Court.... ...unless it involves the cultural traditions/religious tradition of the majority of the population. Christianity Today on the "Post-Protestant Supreme Court." Personally, I'm not sure that "diversity" matters all that much in this context, particularly since Supreme Court justices are molded by Ivy League culture and legal culture far more than they

They are angry swimsuit models... ...and

Posted on April 12, 2010
They are angry swimsuit models... ...and they are going to kick your ass.

Dawkins is an idiot. But I repeat

Posted on April 12, 2010
Dawkins is an idiot. But I repeat myself. This is what the learned scientist wants to have Pope Benedict arrested for: The following is the text of a November 1985 letter in Latin signed by then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger to Oakland Bishop John Cummins...

If you can bear to hear the words

Posted on April 12, 2010
If you can bear to hear the words you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools. The post on Richard Dawkins plan to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested mentions a 1985 document where the future Pope counseled against the laicizing of a priest because of the "good of the universal church...

Great Moments in Atheist "Tolerance"

Posted on April 12, 2010
Great Moments in Atheist "Tolerance" and Rationality. Richard Dawkins planning to have Pope Benedict arrested over 'crimes against humanity' Richard Dawkins, the atheist campaigner and evolutionist, is planning to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested when he comes to Britain later this year for "crimes against humanity"...

Crazy Has-Been Actress tries to

Posted on April 12, 2010
Crazy Has-Been Actress tries to Restore Hollywood Street Cred. There was a point in 1990s when Roseanne Barr nee  Roseanne Arnold bestrode Hollywood like a one-woman multimedia Titan.  She was so successful that she got to drop her last name and become, simply, Roseanne...

Modern Life Impressive and disturbing

Posted on April 12, 2010
Modern Life Impressive and disturbing visual images.

Politically weak. Same-sex marriage

Posted on April 12, 2010
Politically weak. Same-sex marriage supporters fail to raise 700,000 signatures to qualify same-sex marriage for ballot.

If only Swim Coaches Could Marry.... Mark

Posted on April 12, 2010
If only Swim Coaches Could Marry.... Mark Shea points to this story about the "defrocking" of 36 swim coaches from the USA Swimming organization: In a sex abuse scandal that some victims compare to what happened in the Catholic Church, at least 36 swimming coaches have been banned for life by the USA Swimming organization over the last 10 years because of sexual misconduct with teenagers they

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