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June 2021

June 05, 2021

A Case for Exclusively-Singular Gender-Neutral Third-Person Pronouns

Just browsed a puff-piece at The Atlantic about the history of gender-neutral singular pronouns in English,...

September 2020

September 18, 2020

YOU! Can Prevent Election Interference by Foreign Social Media Trolls

Clemson University's Media Forensics Hub has an educational quizlet online, testing whether you can tell...

December 2016

December 07, 2016

Reality Check re: Black Santa

So, about those Santa Wars going on up at the Mall of America . ....

April 2016

April 06, 2016

3 Tips for Keeping Your Dominicans from Looking Like Klansmen

Here in South Carolina we have both Dominicans and Klansmen, but so far there haven't...

November 2015

November 01, 2015

The Rosary and a Rule of Life When You Haven’t Got Time

Happy All Saints Day! I'll be staying home with a cold, thank you. Which...

October 2015

October 16, 2015

How to Teach Kids about the “Straw Man” Fallacy

Point them to the internet. In class this morning, the kids got their formal introduction...

October 10, 2015

Don Bosco on Recess Consultants and Playing Tag

The National Review has a snippet-article about "Recess Consultants" whose job is to improve the...

October 05, 2015

Be a Junior Forensic Hydrologist! One Weird Trick for Staying Dry in Flood-Time #scflood

Still have power? Internet? Here's a fun game you can play at home to add...

September 2015

September 24, 2015

Carpool Mom vs. Celebrity Security

So yesterday a famous person was slated to make an appearance at the building across...

September 21, 2015

Catholic Life Hacks: Torn Window Screen

Imagine, just hypothetically, that you had a torn window screen. Maybe one that looked like...

August 2015

August 21, 2015

Dear Every Priest I’ve Ever Known,

Thank you for keeping your clothes on. One can only take the St. Francis thing...

August 18, 2015

Inside Our Homeschool – What We’re Doing This Year

What I've been doing instead of blogging lately is getting ready for school -- organizing...

August 14, 2015

Parenting Fail: Telling the World You Wish Your Kid Were Dead

I do not understand why the courts tolerate "accidental life" lawsuits. What a waste of...

August 02, 2015

Your Church Might Be Populated By Humans If . . .

In my reading this past week I was struck by a passage that seemed to sum...

May 2015

May 08, 2015

Three Reasons I Hate Mothers Day, and the Holidays We Need Instead

It's that weekend again, and people, nice people, have already started wishing me happy...

March 2015

March 23, 2015

New Entries for Our French-Redneck Dictionary

So I've got four high school students sitting at my kitchen table, and we're going...

February 2015

February 20, 2015

Christian Community and the Loss of Penance

In a private forum, someone asked why Catholics don't talk about acts of penance so much...

December 2014

December 17, 2014

Atheists Advise: Don’t Watch Just Anything, Be Discriminating to Safeguard Your Faith

The Washington Times reports that American Atheists have figured out what Catholics have long proclaimed:...

December 10, 2014

Williams Sonoma has Nothing on this Combination Whiskey / Salad Dressing Container

People think, "Oh, you religion bloggers, all you learn at church is things like which...