The Sunday Comics at Secondhand Smoke

by Wesley J. Smith

It’s a little hard to see but the little man at the left, who failed to sell the tonsils, is saying, “I guess I should have gone with the appendix.” . . . . Continue Reading »

19 Aug 2007

The Laughter of the Philosophers

by David Bentley Hart

Humor receives finitude as a gift, conscious of the suffering intrinsic to human existence, but capable of transcendence. . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Jan 2005

What's So Funny

by Dermot Quinn

The Morality of Laughter by f. h. buckleyuniversity of michigan press. 239 pp. $29.95 Football, a famously dour Scotsman once remarked, is not a question of life and death: “It’s more important than that.” The same might be said, with greater justice, of humor. A vast literature, growing by . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Aug 2003

“I Am the Very Model of a Modern Vicar-P’rochial”

by Mike Aquilina

V-P:I am the very model of a modern Vicar-P’rochial. I’ve schooling theological, from Curran to Ezekial. I know the Code of Canon Law, and know which lines are optional for dear dissenting brethren, Manichean or adoptional. From seminars I’ve learned to be more challenging and quizzical, more . . . . Continue Reading »

1 Mar 1991