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September 2011

September 28, 2011

Al Qaeda to Iran: Darn Tootin’ We Done It!

Remember that scene in A Few Good Men, where Colonel Jessup, his pride having conquerd...

September 28, 2011

Pretty As A Picture

During my last miserable year of grad school, I found occasion to court the woman...

September 25, 2011

Phoenix Goes Dry; I Weep

In a Bill Mauldin cartoon that ran in Stars and Stripes during World War Two,...

September 23, 2011

The Addict Saint

When I taught ESOL in China, the first thing that struck me was the English...

September 21, 2011

The Meanest Jesus Ever

In her short story "Parker's Back," Flannery O'Connor describes the reaction of a tattoo aficionado...

September 20, 2011

Ask; They’ll Tell

I don't imagine there will be much rejoicing in these quarters over the repeal of...

September 20, 2011

Gamers Save World from AIDS

That's a slight exaggeration. Okay, it's a huge exaggeration. Still, it contains a solid grain...

September 16, 2011

Deaths the Right Will Never Cheer

Lately, GOP debate crowds have earned the reputation of being bloodthirstier than any mob since...

September 14, 2011

When Does Fundraising Become a Shakedown? — UPDATED!

Since yesterday, when news first broke of the conflict between Bishop Zurek of Amarillo and...

September 13, 2011

A Lesson from Fr. Pavone: How to Behave on the Carpet

When I saw, on the Anchoress Blog, that Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life...

September 11, 2011

9/11 and Bleacher Bum’s Envy

Several weeks after 9/11, my friend and I went skydiving for the first and only...

September 10, 2011

City of Veronicas

Of all the Church's dubious pious traditions, my favorite is the story of the Veronica...

September 07, 2011

Dutch Game Show: “You Are the Weakest Refugee — Goodbye!”

If you're a refugee, preparing to be deported from the Netherlands, you can become a...

September 07, 2011

Was Al-Jazeera Reporter Treated Ugly?

Really, I have no longstanding grudge against Texas, the soil that yielded Buddy Holly, Larry...

September 06, 2011

How to Write About 9/11

From a writer's point of view, the only good thing about the tenth anniversary of...

September 01, 2011

MLK and the Politics of Poses

Maya Angelou has told the world, through the Washington Post, that the Reverend Dr. Martin...

August 2011

August 31, 2011

Today’s Church: As Good for Liberals as it’s Gonna Get?

Having read the signs of the times, Antonio Celso de Queiros, bishop emeritus of Catanduva...

August 30, 2011

Novels of the Great Recession

For a long time, critics were in the habit of complaining that American authors had...

August 29, 2011

How to Really Give a Good Sermon

This week, via video, an America Magazine commentator plugs Fr. Roy Shelly's formula for a...

August 29, 2011

“If it Weren’t for You Meddling Kids”: Why Some Hate the Hikers

Something there is that doesn’t love a hiker. Specifically, there seems to be something about...

August 26, 2011

Georgetown: Conversions Down

We're not hitting our numbers. That's the gist of the latest report from Georgetown's Center...

August 25, 2011

In Defense of Bloomberg

With no clergy officiating, New York City's 9/11 anniversary ceremony is going to leave many...

August 24, 2011

Happy Strangers’ Day

New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast has declared today, August 24th, to be Strangers' Day. The...

August 24, 2011

Messy Eaters, Unite!

Can you not stand the smell of lamb vindaloo coming from the next cubicle? Does...

August 23, 2011

The Joys of Energy Self-Sufficency

This week in America Magazine, Thomas A. Massaro calls on his fellow American to lay...

August 22, 2011

For the Love of Living Latin

Here's a perfect gift for the Latin scholar in your life: a whole summer resurrecting...

August 21, 2011

Wanted: World Youth Day for Introverts

It's hard to imagine Flannery O'Connor at World Youth Day. As a child, she marked...

August 18, 2011

Ralph Branca: Remembering Jerusalem

The athlete whose career seems in retrospect to have been defined by an instance of...

August 17, 2011

Rick Perry and the Politics of Treating ’em Ugly

Even conservatives are coming down on brand-new presidential candidate Rick Perry for accusing Ben Bernanke...

August 16, 2011

A Thundering Squadron of Cassocks

This title barely qualifies as a pun. Cassock, the name for the clerical garment with...

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