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Is Google making us stupid? The

Posted on July 28, 2008
Is Google making us stupid? The failure of memory, the starvation of imagination, the ennervation of reason. Well, yes, according to this Antlantic essay. Disengagement from reading is one example: I?m not the only one. When I mention my troubles with reading to friends and acquaintances?literary types, most of them?many say they?re having similar experiences...

"Nescio ergo blogo" "I do not

Posted on July 28, 2008
"Nescio ergo blogo" "I do not know, therefore I blog" William Vallicella explains why he is not ready to pack it in: Blogging is an excellent tool for the assembly, preliminary refinement, and presentation of one?s thoughts on any topic that turns one?s crank...

Joe Bob Briggs Goes to an Atheist

Posted on July 27, 2008
Joe Bob Briggs Goes to an Atheist Convention This is as good as what we would expect from America's number one outdoor movie theater reviewer. A few choice graphs: Instead what we get is the god of Science. Not just the scientific method?although that was ever on display, with the assumption that if it can?t be proven by objective testing, then it has no reality?but the idea that the whole

An Example of "Not Socially Autistic" Megan

Posted on July 27, 2008
An Example of "Not Socially Autistic" Megan McArdle writes: I'm also completely flummoxed by the people saying a consecrated host is JUST A CRACKER, so why is everyone getting all upset? Would it be okay if I spraypainted obscenities on your mother's grave because it's just a piece of highly compressed igneous rock with some lines chiseled into it? How about if I photoshop your a photo of

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"Isn't that just...delicious irony?" Stephen

Posted on July 26, 2008
"Isn't that just...delicious irony?" Stephen Colbert on the Anglican schism.

Journalistic Standards Instapundit

Posted on July 26, 2008
Journalistic Standards Instapundit points out regarding the LA Times instructions that its blogges not lower themselves to discuss John Edwards' "love child": I'll just note that the L.A. Times didn't have the same concern for propriety when it published what Larry Lessig described as "a baseless smear" against Judge Kozinski just last month...

Concerning the Sacred and the Social

Posted on July 25, 2008
Concerning the Sacred and the Social Autism of Certain Atheists The socially autistic Universtity of Minnosota Biology Professor - and cult figure for internet atheists - P.Z. Myers has made good on his promise to desecrate the Eucharist. Although his venom is aimed at Catholics - who he refers to as "F*ckwits" - he included a few pages of the Koran and Dawkin's "The God Delusion" in the act.

Empty Suit Alert It is amazing

Posted on July 23, 2008
Empty Suit Alert It is amazing that we are so close to electing someone so inexperienced. As Powerline reports: Obama continued: Now, in terms of knowing my commitments, you don't have to just look at my words, you can look at my deeds. Just this past week, we passed out of the U...

3 things that you should never

Posted on July 21, 2008
3 things that you should never mix: Vodka, Wicca and Indiana From Ruth's Blog "Lebanon police investigated an overnight incident in which a woman stabbed herself in the foot with a sword during a Wiccan ritual at a local cemetery. "Police were called to the Witham Hospital emergency room around 2:00 a...

Really Politically Incorrect John

Posted on July 21, 2008
Really Politically Incorrect John C. Wright posts a defense of Joseph McCarthy. Despite all his faults, at least McCarthy was right that there were Communist spies in government and the Communist Party USA was actively involved in spying for the Soviet Union.

Bare ruined Choirs Jody Bottums

Posted on July 21, 2008
Bare ruined Choirs Jody Bottums at First Things has an insightful essay on the self-immolation of mainstream Protestantism. When I first started doing "church disaffiliation" cases around 10 years ago, I was surprised at how the mainstream Protestant churches have hemorraged members over the last 30 years...

"A Cloud No Bigger than a Man's

Posted on July 20, 2008
"A Cloud No Bigger than a Man's Fist" The Widget and the Wadget and I spent the latter part of last week in San Francisco doing the tourist thing. San Francisco is a wonderful city full of great restaurants, views and activities. We did a harbor cruise, toured the submarine Pampinito, walked to Coit Tower, rode the cable cars, did Dim Sum in Chinatown and a bunch of other stuff...

They almost make me a creationist I'll

Posted on July 15, 2008
They almost make me a creationist I'll admit that I have no time for creationists. I think they positively ignore the data - lots of old bones of animals that haven't been around for a long time - in favor of a reading of the bible that isn't strictly compelled by the text...

Six Degrees of Separation Start

Posted on July 15, 2008
Six Degrees of Separation Start here. How many links bring you back where you started?

Tony Snow Tony Snow passed away

Posted on July 13, 2008
Tony Snow Tony Snow passed away yesterday after a valiant fight against cancer. He seemed like a genuinely decent man. Stories like this one from NRO, among many others, seem to confirm the fct that he was one of the rare indiduals who had the integretation of public and private personnas which makes for a "life well lived...

Atheist Professor P.Z. Myers asks

Posted on July 11, 2008
Atheist Professor P.Z. Myers asks his blog readers to provide him with some paint so he can desecrate the local Jewish Synagogue with Swastikas. No, that's not right. Everyone knows that would be wrong. Actually, he's asking his readers to give him the Consecrated Host from a Catholic Mass so he can desecrate it on YouTube...

Woohoo!!! More business Good news

Posted on July 10, 2008
Woohoo!!! More business Good news for those of us who practice the developing area of "church disaffiliation" law, the PCUSA has taken steps to eliminate the idea of "marital fidelity" and "chastity" from its ordination standards. According to this PCUSA report on the actions of the 218th General Assembly (and let's not forget the 217th GA's yeoman efforts to change the baptismal formula to "

Know 'Magic Mushrooms', Know God;

Posted on July 10, 2008
Know 'Magic Mushrooms', Know God; No 'Magic Mushrooms', No God Those whacky Presbyterians. After affirming that adultery is consistent with the Gospel, the PCUSA news agency runs this favorable story on the spiritual benefits of psychotropic mushrooms: ?Magic? mushrooms have spiritual benefits, study says by Tim Murphy Religion News Service Hallucinogenic mushrooms, long valued by Central

A New Anti-Catholic Meme Arising? I

Posted on July 10, 2008
A New Anti-Catholic Meme Arising? I just saw a segment on Foxnews about a recent Muslim honor-killing in Georgia, where a father had killed his daughter for rejecting an arranged marriage. Fox interviewed a "reformed Muslim" woman, who spoke about how honor-killing is a form of patriarchal control whereby women are viewed as "belonging" to the village or culture, and when they refuse to play

Wrętlic is žes wealstan, wyrde

Posted on July 08, 2008
Wrętlic is žes wealstan, wyrde gebręcon "This masonry is wondrous; fates broke it" I'm listening to a podcast by Oxford professor Stuart Lee. Lee is a professor of Old English at Oxford and his lectures on Old English are really interesting and entertaining...

Faith Based Initiatives I just

Posted on July 08, 2008
Faith Based Initiatives I just noticed this link on "You are Cephas" to a story about a PCA-affiliated adoption agency that refused to place children with Catholic families. The MSNBC article pointed out that the Bethany Christian Services adoption agency is funded in part from money collected through the Mississippi "Choose Life" license plate program...

Extra Ecclesia, Nula Salus. The

Posted on July 07, 2008
Extra Ecclesia, Nula Salus. The paper by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith defining Protestant denominations as not being "churches" had a number of ecumenically minded Protestants up in arms. So, this post at former PCA blogger "You are Cephas" was interesting...

Liberal Fascism Dorothy Rabinowitz

Posted on July 07, 2008
Liberal Fascism Dorothy Rabinowitz describes how Keith Sampson, a student working his way through Indiana University Purdue, was threatened by the university - including the "affirmative action coordinator" - with job loss if he continued to bring ""Notre Dame Vs...

Secret Histories Christianity,

Posted on July 05, 2008
Secret Histories Christianity, Catholicism and the West are often confronted with the excesses of the Crusades as a way of undermining their morale and moral claims. It is certainly the case that descriptions of Christian knights wading through blood to capture the sites sacred to the religion of the Prince of Peace serve as a useful lesson in humility...

Marxists, Socialists and Communists

Posted on July 01, 2008
Marxists, Socialists and Communists for Obama Or is that redundant. Here is the Barack Obama website. And the "mission statement": This group is for self-proclaimed Marxists/Communists/Socialists for the election of Barack Obama to the Presidency...

Being a liberal isn't as much fun

Posted on June 28, 2008
Being a liberal isn't as much fun when you can't rely on Big Media to cover your flip-flops Check out this side-by-side comparison of Obama's contradictory position on whether there is a Constitutional right to gun ownership. This comes from Hot Air, which asks "he really doesn't get YouTube, does he?" Well, why should he? Prior to this campaign, when has he had any experience of truly

Scholarly Malpractice After the

Posted on June 26, 2008
Scholarly Malpractice After the success of the Historians in providing a basis for the court to pretend that homosexuality didn't exist prior to 1930 now it's the Linguist's turn to churn out some scholarly nonsense in an effort to make liberal social policy...

New York Times puts life of CIA

Posted on June 26, 2008
New York Times puts life of CIA operative and family at risk This is a pretty interesting article on the interrogation of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. But in the middle of the article there is this titbit: Mr. Martinez declined to be interviewed; his role was described by colleagues...

Liberal Fascism Time Immortal

Posted on June 25, 2008
Liberal Fascism Time Immortal publishes Bishop Fred Henry's letter to Alberta's Premier on the Canadian Human Rights Commissions decision to strip Free Speech rights from critics of the homosexual agenda. The Bishop writes: Each judgment emanating out of our various human right commissions seems to be more brazen and bizarre than the one that preceded it...

Anglicans having fun First, N.T.

Posted on June 24, 2008
Anglicans having fun First, N.T. Wright, the Anglican Bishop of Durham and author, historian and theologian, went on the Colbert Report. Then, Anglicans weighed in on their Bishop's performance. Then, the Bishop weighed in on their comments. Showing that you can never tell who is reading your snarky comments...

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