My friend—well, maybe not friend, exactly, since we’ve never met, but, anyway, Mark Shea, a guy I’ve exchanged emails with, is invading Icons & Curiosities territory and (may harpies claw away his sandals and make a painful snack of toes) doing it better than I can. Noting this . . . . Continue Reading »
The San Francisco Chronicle carries a helpful op/ed piece by two physicians to day on the mandatory counseling requirement in the Obamacare House bill by physician and USC School of Medicine professor emeritus Katherine Dowling Schlaerth. From her column:This current legislation...seeks to . . . . Continue Reading »
Smokette and I are listening to Dennis Miller on the radio—more accurately, on the computer—as is our AM wont. He just cracked a great joke about Obamacare’s plan to require seniors to receive reeducation camp indoctrination—er, mandatory counseling—every five . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Icons and Curiosities , Sally asks the rest of us to join in her and Jody’s churchfest . This morning my friend Matt Alderman inadvertently answered the call at the Shrine of the Holy Whapping , posting photos of St. Elizabeth’s, Bratislava, also known as the Blue Church. I . . . . Continue Reading »
Over at Instapundit , in the course of calling David Frum a Gloomy Gus, Glenn Reynolds writes : conservatives and libertarians should be feeling a lot better than they did a few months ago, as the Obama aura is dissipating much faster than even the most optimistic might have expected. Is this . . . . Continue Reading »
Here, via an inventors’ site, is an image of the design to which official United States Patent D367147 has been granted:It’s apparently a design for pieces of Christian art that use Christ himself as the cross on which, um, Christ is crucified.That’s a genuinely inventive . . . . Continue Reading »
My thoughts exactly : The problem was not that the screen was in black-and-white; if it had really been black-and-white, that would have been fine. The problem was that the screen was gray. And it wasn’t just gray; it was a greenish, sickly gray. A postmortem gray. The resizable typeface, . . . . Continue Reading »
The internet just made it easier to find out. A searchable database containing the service records of 250,000 soldiers is now available. Find your ancestors. Or old rivals. . . . . Continue Reading »
All right, ladies and gentlemen. It’s time to get serious. Jody has shared a church with us.I have shared a lot of churches with us.Does anyone else out there have a church to share with us? Anyone? Anyone? Jody suggested collecting prettiest and ugliest churches, but perhaps we could come up . . . . Continue Reading »
A public-school wrestling coach in the heavily Muslim Dearborn, Michigan, is suing on the grounds that he was fired for being a Christin by his Muslim principal. From a Thomas More Law Center press release about the case: Trouble started between Fadlallah and Marszalek when one of Coach . . . . Continue Reading »
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