Since I’m not a Catholic, it’s not really my place to criticize buffet Catholicism. But this sort of thing really irks me: Marquette University announced benefits to the same-sex spouses of faculty and staff, in the wake of controversy surrounding the aborted hiring of a lesbian dean. . . . . Continue Reading »
Back by popular demand. I am so technologically unsavy, I was unable previously to upload this to YouTube. It is there now. So, for your satirical enjoyment, we bring it to you . . . . Continue Reading »
As Mark A. Signorelli notes , most people—especially conservatives—misunderstand what the reference “a city upon a hill” means: Conservatives are awfully fond of referring to America as a “city upon a hill;” it would be a wonderful thing if they actually made some . . . . Continue Reading »
Is it just me or is April Fool’s Day the worst pseudo-holiday on the calendar? As an infovore who has the strange habit of assuming that people are telling the truth, it drives me nuts to waste a day wondering if what I’m hearing and reading is fake. I don’t get the appeal. Has . . . . Continue Reading »
From Shiva Naipaul’s travel essay about the Seychelles, “Fall from Innocence”: He refers to a fifty-rupee note adorned with a group of emblematic coconut trees. When examined from a certain angle, the fronds patterned themselves into the letters S-E-X. (I was given a tie adorned . . . . Continue Reading »
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