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August 2015

August 03, 2015

A Few, Simple Rules for World Breastfeeding Week

Hey, now. I guess World Breastfeeding Week is a thing. Here are a few simple...

July 2015

July 29, 2015

How Mel Brooks saved my life

Resolved: Jeffrey Imm is a moron, and so is anyone who wants to sanitize the...

July 07, 2015

10 Ways to Insult a Catholic Blogger (and Why You Shouldn’t Bother)

1. You're just trying to get attention with this! Oh gosh-all-whillikers, not attention! You mean that...

May 2015

May 14, 2015

Columbia Students Lay Siege to Themselves

So here's what I say to the Columbia students clutching their carefully cultivated pearls as they face...

January 2015

January 01, 2015

FLASH! Cardinal Mahony is actually horse meat

Simcha Fisher's greatest fan suggested rerunning this piece for Throwback Thursday. This post ran in...

December 2014

December 01, 2014

Lauten was fired for saying something dumb? That’s dumb.

The silly woman who spouted off about Obama's daughters has resigned: Elizabeth Lauten, the communications...

October 2014

October 09, 2014

At Synod, Sex-Obsessed Catholic Church Finally Talks About Sex, Finally

It is stunning that the Bishops are talking about sex! As long as you are...

September 2014

September 30, 2014

Catholics, Cotton Candy, and Comeuppance

PIC Care Bear farting a rainbow And I says to myself, I says,...

July 2014

July 29, 2014

At the Register: Prayer doesn’t make things happen

I agree, sort of. We don't pray for a cure for cancer and find...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

At the Register: Why we can’t have baptisms during Lent

Hope this helps.

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Try this one weird trick for ending the war on women

You know what would cut through 99% of this crap, where we find ourselves arguing...

February 12, 2014

Is there a story in Sochi’s gay bar? Up to a point, Lord Copper . . .

Sochi's only gay bar is overrun by reporters, who won't let Russians just sit down...

February 06, 2014

At the Register: Speaking of Empty Promises

I don't trust you to save me from sin if you can't even bring yourself...

December 2013

December 08, 2013

Was there some widespread misapprehension that this WAS about the unh, ba-bling?

December 05, 2013

At the Register: I’m Making a List

I'm a giver of gifts today.

November 2013

November 19, 2013

At the Register: Ten Splendid Sequels You Can Expect to See

This is relevant for a Catholic publication because I fleetingly mock Life Teen.

November 12, 2013

At the Register: Do You Got Awful?

Look, it's a post! About things! A full hour and one minute before midnight on...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

It’s gummint. Why can’t it be both?

I'm only about half sucker; so I knew it wasn't really true that Obama contracted...

October 05, 2013

Let’s All Panic Over Franciscogenic Papal Change!!!!!!!

This morning, I read Dolan confirms error in Scalfari interview in the National Catholic Reporter. It confirms...

September 2013

September 18, 2013

Worst! Pope! Ever!!1!

It's true, Francis really is -- as long as you understand that, as a Catholic,...

September 14, 2013

Holy Cats, Mr. Science! Do you mean to say that population is made out of people?

Op ed in the NYT saying what I've been saying since forever: Gosheroodie, have you...

August 2013

August 31, 2013

I have always depended on the blindness of strangers. A contest!

Weh-heh-hell, it was bound to happen. As I mentioned, we got a puppy a few months...

August 29, 2013

This is why iDrink

Yesterday the supermarket, we saw this: It made me think of this: "I too am...

August 13, 2013

At the Register: The Enemy of My Enemy Is Still My Enemy

Putin, Putin! He's so fine! He's so fine he'll Bash your head.

August 07, 2013

I go back and forth . . .

about whether to consider myself a feminist. Then I read something like this, and I...

July 2013

July 19, 2013

Oh fer

Seen on Target's Facebook page: "Corn on the Cob Survival Kit" Up next: a special truss for...

July 09, 2013

At the Register: Free Lumen Fidei!

Seriously, if Pope Francis hears about this, he's gonna be mad.

June 2013

June 24, 2013

Oh, Francis-haters, you sound very lovely when you get played that way.

Good heavens, I'm completely disgusted at some of the comments I'm reading about Pope Francis'...

June 20, 2013

Hey, Gentiles!

This is what I've been trying to tell you. You are not getting nearly enough chicken...

June 18, 2013

Miss Utah says “Bep”

When I ask my kids an impossible question in a high-pressure situation -- say, something...