At the Register: Prayer doesn’t make things happen
I agree, sort of. We don’t pray for a cure for cancer and find a vial full of miraculous medicine on the table. We don’t pray to reach the moon on Christmas Eve and find a functional rocket ship...
View ArticleCatholics, Cotton Candy, and Comeuppance
And I says to myself, I says, Sorry, Shakespeare! Sorry, Homer! Sorry, Flannery O’Connor and Evelyn Waugh, Somerset Maugham, Mark Twain, Faulkner, Melville, Doestoevsky, Chaucer, Joseph Conrad,...
View ArticleAt Synod, Sex-Obsessed Catholic Church Finally Talks About Sex, Finally
It is stunning that the Bishops are talking about sex! As long as you are the kind of person who wakes up stunned to see the sun rise, stunned to find that you have feet at the end of your legs,...
View ArticleLauten was fired for saying something dumb? That’s dumb.
The silly woman who spouted off about Obama’s daughters has resigned: Elizabeth Lauten, the communications director for Rep. Stephen Fincher (R-Tenn.), resigned Monday following a Facebook post that...
View ArticleFLASH! Cardinal Mahony is actually horse meat
Simcha Fisher’s greatest fan suggested rerunning this piece for Throwback Thursday. This post ran in March of 2013, during the Papal Conclave, back when things were stupid. I had forgotten all about...
View ArticleColumbia Students Lay Siege to Themselves
So here’s what I say to the Columbia students clutching their carefully cultivated pearls as they face down the hot breath of those terrible, wild gods: you’re damn right it’s not safe. You’re not in...
View Article10 Ways to Insult a Catholic Blogger (and Why You Shouldn’t Bother)
1. You’re just trying to get attention with this! Oh gosh-all-whillikers, not attention! You mean that I made an effort to write in such a way as to persuade people to click on the headline, think...
View ArticleHow Mel Brooks saved my life
Resolved: Jeffrey Imm is a moron, and so is anyone who wants to sanitize the power out of comedy. Imm’s complaint is that Mel Brooks’ The Producers makes fun of Nazis, and therefore doesn’t pay proper...
View ArticleA Few, Simple Rules for World Breastfeeding Week
Hey, now. I guess World Breastfeeding Week is a thing. Here are a few simple rules to follow: If you’re a breastfeeding mother, yay! That’s great. Enjoy hearing people say nice things for a change. If...
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