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The Worst Film of 2008

The latest iteration of Rambo is. And I don’t care that it’s only January. So some Christian missionaries are headed into Burma to bring medicine, food, and the Gospel to victims of genocide. They need Rambo to help them get from Thailand into Burma without inviting attention from . . . . Continue Reading »

Witch Burned by C of E

Holy Increase Mather! The Church of England is finally cracking down on the black arts . Where is the justice? I don’t see why someone who wants to use his witchcraft for goodliness should be singled out this kind of ill treatment, when there are many in the Anglican Communion who employ . . . . Continue Reading »

Secondhand Smoke on the Air

I did an interview with a Catholic radio show last Friday that focused pretty hard on assisted suicide, futile care, eugenics, hospice, and bioethics. It was a call-in show and a couple of hospice nurses called offering some interesting comments. If you want to hear me spout hot air and emit . . . . Continue Reading »

RE: Bleg

Thanks to our emailers for all the help with a name for words formed from roots in different languages. “Hybrid word” was a common suggestion, though it seems more a description than a name. Macaronic turns out to be the word I was trying to come up with, though it seems technically to . . . . Continue Reading »

Stallone on the Catholic Channel

Tomorrow morning, on the Catholic Channel’s Seize the Day program with host Gus Lloyd, Sylvester Stallone will be talking about Rambo IV —and perhaps his own faith. His segment is scheduled for 9 a.m. The Catholic Channel is on Sirius Satellite Radio, channel 159. Even if you don’t . . . . Continue Reading »

Free Speech Issues

Although I sympathize with much of what Senator DeMint and Professor Woodard say in their Web article last week, I think some of their arguments go too far. The main point that Senator DeMint and Professor Woodard make is that “the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and the practice . . . . Continue Reading »

Bleg

There’s a name that curmudgeonly grammarians give to words derived from more than one language—and for the life of me, I can’t think of it. Television is a famous example, a Greek prefix on a Latin stem. Uber-theocon is another, less-famous example, a epithet someone or other flung . . . . Continue Reading »

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