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October 23, 2017
Happy Creation Day!
According to Anglican Bishop James Ussher, today is the 6021st birthday of the Universe! At 9 AM (not sure if that’s Dublin or Jerusalem time). Everybody has a good laugh at poor old bishop Ussher, but Steven Jay Gould–of all the unlikely defenders–has respect for the old man and once wrote an essay on why we […]
October 21, 2017
The Sheer Orwellianism of Crisis
For months I’ve listened to this sleight of hand from the “prolife” Right: Black people protesting the latest murder of some black person by the cops: Black Live Matt… Good White Prolifers: ALL LIVES MATTER!!! Consistent Life Ethic Advocate: Very well. All lives matter. Then let’s listen to the Church and protect *all* life from […]
October 20, 2017
Babylon Bee Just Keeps Nailing It
Pentagon Safety Measure Requires President To Identify Nation On Map Before Nuking It
Your Thomistic Coolness for Today
Lots of people think of creation as something that happened a long time ago at the Big Bang. And because they do, they also think of the universe as a thing that exists alongside God, with him occasionally sticking his finger in work a miracle or maybe tweak the DNA to make a tyrannosaurus. Thomas […]
October 19, 2017
Going to the Dogs
The latest in my series on Jesus and the Canaanite Woman for Catholic Weekly. Here’s a taste: Last time we focused on the contention that the story of Jesus and the Canaanite Woman could be legitimately read as Jesus learning from the Canaanite Woman as long as it does not involve the contention that he was learning to […]
Cool Sciency News
Got this press release, which is cool enough to share: Colliding stars reveal their gravitational wave secrets Australian scientists have announced an “unparalleled” astrophysical discovery revealing that they have detected gravitational waves from the death spiral of two neutron stars. Less than a month after three US professors were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for the […]
Right Now is the Greatest Period of Christian Persecution in History
FYI: Christian persecution reaches historic levels By John Newton THE PERSECUTION of Christians is worse than at any time in history, according to a new report issued Oct. 12, 2017. The “Persecuted and Forgotten?” report concludes that the persecution of Christians reached a high water mark in 2015-17—with growing attacks on the faithful by ISIS, […]
Hillsdale is offering a course on Mark Twain…
…taught by, among others, my chum Kelly Scott Franklin (as well as President Larry Arnn and Benedict Whalen. Click on the cool graphic to find out more: I’m gratified to see they are teaching Huck Finn, which is (in my opinion) the greatest American novel of the 19th Century.
October 18, 2017
Today’s Trumpian Assault on Common Human Decency
A reader writes: “I read today that John Kelly evidently went to some lengths to keep his son’s death in Afghanistan private. Even when called to give a speech commemorating the deaths of several Marines within days of his own son’s death, Kelly did not mention his son and instructed the Marine introducing Kelly not […]
Corporate America Isn’t Woke
A friend of mine sent me this piece a while back and it is even more pointed in the wake of Corporate Hollywood’s sudden discovery of conscience about sex predator Harvey Weinstein: Mocking neoliberalism is a vicious, unsporting pastime, like bear baiting or fishing with dynamite. This is not because our woke capitalist elites and […]
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