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Tennessee Ernie and a really young

Posted on December 31, 2010
Tennessee Ernie and a really young Johnny Cash.

Surprisingly Cool. Who among us

Posted on December 31, 2010
Surprisingly Cool. Who among us does not have an inner six year old who is not amused by the sight of seven men yanking ropes in unison to swing a five foot thurible over the head of a congregation? Who among us doesn't wonder along with Patrick Coffin what would happen to the seventh guy if six of the thurible swingers decided to let go of their ropes? Who doesn't wonder if there have ever

Projection, Cognitive Dissonance

Posted on December 31, 2010
Projection, Cognitive Dissonance and Banquo's Ghost. Conservative Atheist commentator Theodore Dalrymple observes: The quite extravagant expressions of antagonism towards him ? such, for example, as that consideration be given to arresting him for crimes against humanity ? seem to me to bespeak a very odd, almost paranoid, state of mind...

The Magic Darwin Fairies. Another

Posted on December 29, 2010
The Magic Darwin Fairies. Another science fiction writer, John C. Wright, points to more scientific "just so" stories: Likewise, believing in the Steady State Theory could be due to a genetic predisposition of being able to imagine an infinite amount of time, and being able to contemplate eternity is a survival characteristic because hunter gatherers would get bored counting passing hours

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Smuggling Teleology in by the Back

Posted on December 29, 2010
Smuggling Teleology in by the Back Door. Michael Flynn applies his Thomistic senses to the explanation that some evolutionists use to explain the truly weird morphology of the Brazilian Tree-hopper: But the site Why Evolution is True rather spoils things by resorting to the veriest "just so" stories rather than pursue the route of the Old Physicists: abstracting from sensory impressions (quiae)

When you let liberals talk about

Posted on December 28, 2010
When you let liberals talk about religion... ...you usually get wince-making statements that make you go "Whisky Tango Foxtrot?" Feminist Mormon religious columnist Joanna Brooks offers an example of this principle in action: Big confession: I generally feel a sense of relief when the Christmas season comes to a close...

Diversity as the tool of cultural

Posted on December 28, 2010
Diversity as the tool of cultural imperialism - mentioning "ham" is hate speech. This story may turn out to be apocryphal - it sounds apocryphal - but the fact that it seems plausible says a lot about how rules intended to promote diversity may be distorted to the opposite end: An Islam critic and terrorism expert says a recent incident in Spain illustrates how Muslims will use absurd reasons

Are Fox News Viewers Misinformed? This

Posted on December 28, 2010
Are Fox News Viewers Misinformed? This is a great example of how the internet undermines the biased academic class. Via Roger Ho.

The Problem with Science. The

Posted on December 28, 2010
The Problem with Science. The New Yorker has an interesting article on a fairly open secret, but one which would blow the faith of most people, invested as they are in a "scientistic faith." The problem is that the fact that replicability of experimental results - one of the key principles of science - is a pretty hit or miss deal: But the data presented at the Brussels meeting made it clear

Blowback to Vow-Breaking Lovebirds. Apparently,

Posted on December 26, 2010
Blowback to Vow-Breaking Lovebirds. Apparently, the ex-husband of the spouse who found love at the wrong time was interviewed....by a different publication.  His comments were about as supportive as anyone outside of the bubble of self-indulgent narcissists at the New York Times would expect: Bob Ennis, whose ex-wife, Carol Anne Ridell, left him to marry a family friend, ripped as "revisionist

News you can use. How not to ruin

Posted on December 26, 2010
News you can use. How not to ruin your nonstick pan: ?A lot of people buy pans and don?t read the directions,? said Reed Winter, director of research and development for Nordic Ware, a maker of household goods and the manufacturer of the griddle I bought my son...

Thoughts on Midnight Mass... ...Father

Posted on December 25, 2010
Thoughts on Midnight Mass... ...Father Landry: There is something beautifully symbolic about the tradition of Midnight Mass. It shows that Christians are so eager for Christmas to begin that they want to start celebrating on the first moment of Christmas day...

Merry Christmas

Posted on December 24, 2010
Merry Christmas

A Very Zombie Christmas Tips for

Posted on December 23, 2010
A Very Zombie Christmas Tips for surviving the Zombie Apocalypse during the Holidays.

So, why can't a father marry his

Posted on December 23, 2010
So, why can't a father marry his daughter, I mean, if they really love each other? John Zmirak enjoys a moment of schadenfreude: The event that's tempting me to make like Tertullian and pop myself some popcorn while I watch the souls in hell is the very public scandal of Columbia professor (and Huffington Post blogger) David Epstein...

Is Jesus Christ a Myth? Historian

Posted on December 22, 2010
Is Jesus Christ a Myth? Historian James Hannam deconstructs the myth that Jesus was a myth. Hannam is an excellent historian and writer who takes the time to pick apart the pseudo-knowledge that all-too often passes for conventional wisdom. I recommend Hannam's "God's Philosophers" to anyone interested in the intersection of religion and science.

"It was Christmas Eve, babe, in

Posted on December 21, 2010
"It was Christmas Eve, babe, in the drunk tank." Merry Christmas to everyone who has ever been there, or in a place - physical or spiritual - like that on this or any Christmas Eve.

Well, really, who cares how badly

Posted on December 20, 2010
Well, really, who cares how badly you screw over the people who trusted you so long as it makes you happy? That's not a recipe for the good life.  That's the motto of psychopaths. But that doesn't stop the New York Times from celebrating a couple's destruction of their families in the "Marriage" section: WHAT happens when love comes at the wrong time? Carol Anne Riddell and John Partilla

"Christian" Authors. First Thing's

Posted on December 20, 2010
"Christian" Authors. First Thing's Evangel blog points to a Christian author who no one would ever think of as a "Christian author": This has nothing to do with the Left Behind books by Jerry Jenkins and Tim LaHaye. Nor am I referring to writers behind recent surprise hits like Facing the Giantsor Fireproof...

The Paul Erhlich Principle applied

Posted on December 20, 2010
The Paul Erhlich Principle applied to Global Warming... ...it isn't science when you ignore the failed predictions. Paul Ehrlich, of course, predicted that there would be worldwide famines that would reduce world population to an "acceptable level", something like 1...

Morality is replaced by a calculus

Posted on December 20, 2010
Morality is replaced by a calculus of consequences, and in the process it ceases to exist. Pope Benedict covers a variety of topics in his Christmas address to the Roman Curia: We were all the more dismayed, then, when in this year of all years and to a degree we could not have imagined, we came to know of abuse of minors committed by priests who twist the sacrament into its antithesis, and

Living History. Interviews with

Posted on December 17, 2010
Living History. Interviews with highest ranking surviving SS officer.

Another argument to permit open

Posted on December 16, 2010
Another argument to permit open homosexual into the military.... ...because allowing mixed heterosexual crews has never been a problem. Navy CO and XO of mine countermeasure ship fired for "fraternization." The skipper and executive officer of a mine countermeasures ship crew were fired Dec...

The coming depression among theoretical

Posted on December 16, 2010
The coming depression among theoretical physicists. String theory fails first major experimental test. Buty they had such faith in string theory.

Francis Beckwith on Edward Feser

Posted on December 16, 2010
Francis Beckwith on Edward Feser on Thomas Aquinas. Book review here.

6 Most Creative Abuses of Loopholes

Posted on December 15, 2010
6 Most Creative Abuses of Loopholes that Actually Worked... ...from Cracked. This has got to be one of the best ever: In the late 1960s, Leonard Casley grew way too much wheat, which could only ever be a serious problem if you live in Australia. You see, Australia had wheat quotas at the time and Hutt River (the province where Casley and other families grew) had inadvertently surpassed it,

And Happy Hanukkah to you, Dennis. Dennis

Posted on December 15, 2010
And Happy Hanukkah to you, Dennis. Dennis Prager recounts his trip to Morocco when he was 20 and discovered that although he was a practicing orthodox Jew, he missed Christmas, and, therefore, America. When I was 20, I spent my junior year in college in England...

Not fit to print. Washington Post

Posted on December 15, 2010
Not fit to print. Washington Post fails to mention its own poll showing Obamacare's lowest popularity rating ever. A new ABC-Washington Post poll found ObamaCare sunk to its lowest popularity yet: 52 percent opposed, and only 43 percent in favor. ABC mentioned the poll without fanfare at the end of a Jake Tapper report on Monday?s World News, and Tapper added this was the health law's "lowest

Incest - it's not just for Arkansas

Posted on December 15, 2010
Incest - it's not just for Arkansas anymore. Switzerland considers the elimination of incest laws.

Book Review - Catholicism and the

Posted on December 14, 2010
Book Review - Catholicism and the Roots of Nazism: Religious Identity and National Socialism At Amazon: This is a well-written, fair examination of a subject that is too easily turned into a point scoring exercise in polemics. Hastings looks at the earliest history of the National Socialist party and finds that it was expressly "Catholic" in its appeal, symbolism and orientation, but that the

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