Great Paintings shouldn’t be in museums. . . . Museums are cemeteries. Paintings should be on the walls of restaurants, in dime stores, in gas stations, in men’s rooms. Great paintings should be where people hang out. The only thing where it’s happening is on the radio and records, . . . . Continue Reading »
Awful. Awful. Awful. Bangladesh has busted a kidney trafficking gang. From the Herald Sun story:Three people were arrested on Sunday in the remote Kalai area, 300 kilometres northwest of Dhaka, after reports surfaced that villagers were having their organs removed illegally. “We . . . . Continue Reading »
1. Which Girl Scout Cookies Score the Most Brownie Points? °°°°°° 2. Does Religion Influence Epidemics? °°°°°° 3. The Waffle House Index to Natural Disasters When a hurricane makes landfall, the head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency relies . . . . Continue Reading »
In his latest On the Square column , David Bentley Hart shares the poems of his late, great pagan uncle Aloysius: Certain readers have requested in various ways (pseudonymous emails, menacing telegrams delivered in the dead of night, and so on) that I supply a few more details from the biography of . . . . Continue Reading »
. . . if the Democrats followed Mr. Postmodern Conservative’s advice and tried to dump Obama now? Let’s say it would be for Hilary. Or, who else would it be for? I’m assuming here a major bid, a primary run backed by huge parcels of the Democratic establishment. Not some . . . . Continue Reading »
In a time when Christianity is often taken for a collection of repressive rules and archaic strictures, Dan Farelley’s new translation of Josef Pieper’s The Christian Idea of Man is refreshing and timely. Pieper’s essay reads as a meditation or homily on Meister Eckhart’s . . . . Continue Reading »
The item Joe posted earlier today, ” Who Decides Who’s a Catholic? ” reminded me of something I wrote just a few years ago on the same subject — journalistic definitions — a few years ago. Here it is, for those who are interested: Another sad story of people . . . . Continue Reading »
‘This is the 5000th entry published on Secondhand Smoke.I started this blog at the suggestion of a friend, who opined correctly that my then Website was too static. “If you want people to come to your site,” he told me, “it has to change every day.” And he . . . . Continue Reading »
A blog with but a single entry, but it’s a very useful one: Early Christians on Abortion . He begins, as vexed as many of us were at the time, with Nancy Pelosi’s making a hash, a pro-choice hash, of Christian teaching on Meet the Press . . . . . Continue Reading »
A new study published in the British Journal of Psychiatry finds that—as pro lifers have long insisted—women who have abortions experience high rates of psychological problems. From the Telegraph story:Women who have abortions are at risk of severe mental health problems, new . . . . Continue Reading »
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