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Jesus Founded a Church, Not a Club

In which I take issue with people who seem to think it the mission of the Church to keep out as many people as possible: So last week, Lady Gaga posted a picture of herself praying the Rosary and accompanied it with an explanation of why her health troubles had forced her to cancel her […]

Vaux’s Swift Roost in Monroe, WA

So my wife, who is a bird enthusiast has done what she does best: teach me to love new things. Near our house is Lake Ballinger, with a big peat bog island in the middle of it. In summer, we swim out to it and often spend a couple of hours swimming round it. The […]

Caught up with Tony Vasinda, the Catholic Beard Balm Guy

… on Connecting the Dots:

Exactly

And all because a rich white draft dodger who called his years of catching STDs his “personal Vietnam”, who spit on POWs and mocked Gold Star families, and who calls Nazis “very fine people” but peaceful black protesters exercising their first amendment right “sons of bitches” is skilled at ginning up his base of white […]

Because Christianity is nothing more than warmed over paganism…

September 21, the Autumn Equinox is, of course, a massively important day in the Christian calendar, one the Four Most Important Days of the Year for Christians. Right? Just like Easter always fall on the Spring Equinox. Oh, wait.  It *never* falls on the Spring Equinox? Hmm… Also, there’s no evidence that Christmas was invented […]

They don’t call it the Interwebs for nothing

Conversation with Somebody Claiming Their Focus is Only on Abortion

Commenting on Liesite News’ recent ugly hatchet piece on Rebecca Bratten Weiss, claiming that she seeks to destroy the prolife movement by advocating a consistent life ethic, a reader sez: I don’t like smear campaigns or demonizing. I also agree with the headline of the LSN article. I do think “seamless garment” is a poison […]

Professor Julius Sumner Miller

I never heard of this guy until today: …but he appears to have been a magnificent Feynmanesque character. Miller’s first television appearance in Australia was on Bob Sanders People in 1963. In an improvised physics demonstration, he attempted to drive a drinking straw through a raw potato. A paper straw normally does not have sufficient strength but if one pinches […]

The GOP gets back to the business of trying to kill the weak, poor, and elderly

It’s only fitting that this pack of clowns (who are less like Bozo and more like IT in the hunger for the blood of the weak) should be called out by a clown who simply quotes their lies back to their faces and speaks the truth: The GOP once again is demonstrating that for the […]

Manchild Threatens World War III

Having spent last week facing calls for impeachment from his former fan base, Trump tries to demonstrate the bigness of his tiny, tiny hands to the men such as Ann Coulter who have rejected him.  Recklessly threatening another manchild with the “total” destruction of his country (meaning the potential nuclear murder of 25 million people […]