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September 2014

September 08, 2014

Young Conservative Delusions

"A class of conservatives has arisen, again largely made up of young people, who are...

September 08, 2014

Why Some People “Fail At Life”

Erick Erickson, whose ridiculous statement that "life doesn't deal you cards" I examined in Who...

September 05, 2014

Who Really Fails at Life

“Seriously, look. I don’t mean to be ugly with you people. . . . If...

September 04, 2014

Nature Soaked in Blood

Our old dog eats deer poop. The neighborhood cats stalk, torture, and kill our chipmunks....

September 02, 2014

Ricky Gervais’ Common Sense About Nude Pictures

Ricky Gervais' tweeted comment seemed kind of obvious: "Celebrities, make it harder for hackers to...

September 02, 2014

The Prejudices We Don’t Recognize

My first article for Ethika Politika, on whose board I'm now serving: Jeremiah and the...

September 01, 2014

The Intellectual Life

A few quotes of use to the student from A. G. Sertillanges’ The Intellectual Life. Sertillanges was a...

September 01, 2014

Farewell, Tolkien’s Tree

As an unidentified writer titled the story from the Oxford University news and events page...

August 2014

August 29, 2014

The Christian’s Rules for Hiring

From Dorothy Sayers' essay Why Work?, her explanation of the way Christians ought to choose people...

August 29, 2014

The Exodus in Song

An entertaining telling of the story of the Exodus, using songs from Les Miserables, by...

August 28, 2014

The Answer to the Problem of Ecclesiadicy

Read this after posting The Theology of Bad Bishops: Catholic New Testament scholar and convert Leroy Huizenga's...

August 28, 2014

The Theology of Bad Bishops

Bad leadership, especially the sort that undermines Catholic teaching even when not denying it, "is...

August 27, 2014

The Missa My Little Pony

One wants to think the comparison is unfair, but upon consideration has to admit that...

August 27, 2014

When God Seems Completely Unfair

Otherwise known as when bad things happen to good people and good to bad. In...

August 27, 2014

White People Like Being Spiritual

As it turns out, not only is being "spiritual but not religious" a spiritual and...

August 25, 2014

We’re Not a Family, We’re a Nation, So Take That

"He [Obama] invoked the American family last week. It’s a lie, brother. You’ve got to...

August 24, 2014

Why You Look Like Your Dog

Or your dog looks like you. Your pick. A Japanese scientist has found that people...

August 24, 2014

The Lord of the Fly

In case you were curious, the meaning of Beelzebub, from the always interested Philologus writing...

August 22, 2014

The Soviet Joker

With admirably gleeful contempt for their former overlords , Bulgarians are painting the figures on...

August 21, 2014

Selling Jewish Sperm

In an "Aldous Huxley, call your office" story, the Forward explains 6 Things You Need to...

August 21, 2014

People Who Find God in Sunsets

When they find out she's a minister, Lillian Daniel complains, people on airplanes keep telling...

August 20, 2014

You May Eat Rabbit

We've had six or seven rabbits, including dwarves and the enormous Belgian bruisers people eat,...

August 19, 2014

Dysfunction Dramas

The main relationship, the relationship you are supposed to root for, moves from dysfunction to...

August 19, 2014

A New Definition of the Poet

The lead (or lede) of a story from the Daily Telegraph: "Italian police have arrested a...

August 18, 2014

The Rebbe and Congressman Chisholm

What happened when "fiery street activist" Shirley Chisholm became a congressman and asked the Lubavitcher...

August 17, 2014

New York’s Daily Latin Mass, Almost Gone

A sympathetic treatment from the weekly newspaper New York Observer on the news that The Last Daily Latin...

August 14, 2014

The Settled Question of Ordaining Women

The question of ordaining women that has so exercised some Catholics and the mainline Protestant...

August 14, 2014

Readings for the Assumption of Our Lady

On the eve of the Feast of the Assumption, a holy day of obligation for...

August 14, 2014

Dogs v. Rats

When we lived in Manhattan, our dog, rescued from the pound and we think a...

August 13, 2014

The Power of Beauty, Also Eschatology

A conference readers may be interested in: The Power of Beauty, being held at the...

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