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July 2016

July 07, 2016

Dear Simcha Fisher

I have to head up to Canada today and will be unavailable for lunatic comments...

January 2015

January 05, 2015

An actual real thing a reader said and apparently believes

"Mark is just trying to build up his credentials so he can get contracting work...

March 2014

March 04, 2014

The expertise of the Combox Inquisition

So many experts. We're awash in them! Just got an email from one: WE ARE...

January 2014

January 16, 2014

More Evidence that Reactionaries Hate Evangelism

The sort of mail I get from the Combox Inquisition typically begins with a "question"...

November 2013

November 14, 2013

The Hell Kerfuffle and Fussy Perfectionism

Recently, in this space and elsewhere, I defended Fr. Robert Barron from the charge of...

October 2013

October 05, 2013

Simcha Fisher Continues Speaking Common Sense

to panicky bedwetters who are convinced that every time the pope clears his throat his...

October 02, 2013

The Reactionary and the Sacraments

In a recent discussion, a reader in the combox makes the common sense remark that...

September 2013

September 25, 2013

Just a reminder…

...you know that beloved Scripture passage about how "If a man will not work, he...

August 2013

August 10, 2013

Another Gay Person I Regard as a Fine Catholic

...turns out to be Simcha Fisher's brother! And his name turn out not to be...

January 2013

January 28, 2013

How comboxes work

Just so you know, the way *you* experience comboxes and the way I experience them...

January 03, 2013

The difference between real pastors…

...and the combox Inquisitors who appoint themselves as death-dealing shepherds of the flock is summed...

October 2012

October 15, 2012

It’s hard to decide which is funnier

Simcha Fisher, who is hilarious because she means to be, or her commenters, a great...

August 2012

August 17, 2012

How Conservative Catholic Moral Decision Making in Comboxes Works An Awful Lot of Times

Drowning, beating, suffocating and freezing prisoners? Launching wars that leave thousands of innocent civilians dead,...

June 2012

June 21, 2012

The delightfully subversive Andrew Klavan…

offers a paean of praise to murdering little girls. Jonathan Swift would be proud. But...

June 04, 2012

Death Penalty Obsessiveness

Poor Monsignor Pope. He writes a bunch of sensible stuff about the culture of death:...

June 04, 2012

Jimmy Akin Attempts to Speak Common Sense…

...to a ravening mob in a combox. About 50% are capable of grasping analogies and...

May 2012

May 10, 2012

It’s a consolation, after last week…

...to find that in my comboxes I am out of my new and unaccustomed role...

May 04, 2012

The Crackerbarrel Inquisition Arrives!

Due to the sudden uptick in comboxers who are unfamiliar to me, demanding to know...

May 03, 2012

Fisking King David

As the Combox Inquisition goes to work to diagnose and condemn the soul of a...

May 02, 2012

It’s funny

Had I written a post called "An adulterer and murderer I consider a saint" I...

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