This is why people hate the UN, its bureaucratic functionaries, and the swarms of NGO camp followers that attend international “problem solving” conferences: In a follow up to the Copenhagen debacle, GWHs may have flown from all over the world to Cancun, Mexico, to fight . . . . Continue Reading »
This is a little heavy-handed in its satire, but very funny anyway, but maybe I’m just a grumpy middle-aged guy who doesn’t have the energy to be post-anything. Though even if that’s true, the satire of hip Evangelicalism is still funny. My thanks to Joseph Knippenberg for . . . . Continue Reading »
Advent is the great season of preparation for the greatest of all gifts: Christ Himself. But as our culture makes all too obvious, this is also a season of high commercialism. As Fr. George Rutler from Our Saviour Parish in New York City reminds us: The season of Advent is lyrically beautiful if . . . . Continue Reading »
A friend responding to my I Was Ignorant, and You Taught Me , Monday’s “On the Square” column, said he’d had a long correspondence with a friend who kept demanding to know why the Bible didn’t say anything about life on other planets. This is important for us to know, . . . . Continue Reading »
Political correctness rules the world! Men and women play in different golf and tennis tournaments because they have biological differences in body strength, coordination, and etc. The distinction isn’t invidious. Rather, it allows like to compete against like, as it were, to give . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s something wrong with this picture: A pilot program has started in NYC that will have organ collectors go to the homes of people who just died of a heart attack to collect the body and harvest kidneys. The motive is to increase the number of transplantable organs. But the approach . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Interlude is another word for stalling. My only daughter is past the due date on his first kid, plus there’s lots of other breaking news in Mount Berry, GA. So a combination of transient ADD and lack of time is delaying indefinitely the next big installment. 2. I’ve been visited by a . . . . Continue Reading »
In today’s first “ On the Square ” essay, Joe Carter sets up a startling and original juxtaposition between two disparate characters: Ayn Rand’s Howard Roark and Frank Capra’s George Bailey. While for Roark, all roads lead to self-satisfaction, George Bailey . . . . Continue Reading »
The Department of Defense is preparing to officially release the results of its survey on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy regarding homosexuals serving openly in the military. That is, of course, after someone leaked the results early, probably to try to influence events. The . . . . Continue Reading »
Whenever I’m sent by my wife to the store on “milk & bread” runs, there’s one rule I follow that keeps me from endlessly wandering the fluorescent freezer-aisled jungle: if we need more than three items, I must make a list. I’m unsure of the average human . . . . Continue Reading »
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