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New Science Fiction Magazine. Check

Posted on June 08, 2010
New Science Fiction Magazine. Check out Lightspeed Magazine.

21% of Atheists believe in God;

Posted on June 08, 2010
21% of Atheists believe in God; 12% believe in Heaven. Talk about non-dogmatic. According to the recent Pew Survey on Religion in Public Life.

Fighting Pseudo-Knowledge - Hollywood

Posted on June 08, 2010
Fighting Pseudo-Knowledge - Hollywood Division. Mark Shea points to this excellent discussion of the history of Hypatia, which includes the following important and sourced bits: Hypatia, whether by chance or choice, found herself in the middle of this power struggle between two Christian factions...

A Rogue's Guide to Reagonomics. We

Posted on June 07, 2010
A Rogue's Guide to Reagonomics. We saw "The Prince of Persia" yesterday.  It was a decent but sometimes slow sword and sorcery epic.  The best part, though, was Alfred Molina's desert scum businessman with a commitment to tax reform: The film?s greatest gem however is Alfred Molina as Sheik Amar, a self-described unscrupulous small businessman...

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Canadian Content. Remember Juno

Posted on June 07, 2010
Canadian Content. Remember Juno Beach.

Governor Christie on Teachers Unions. Great

Posted on June 07, 2010
Governor Christie on Teachers Unions. Great slogan: "You punch them. I punch you." There is a fundamental dysfunction in a system that takes money at gunpoint from people to elect people to extract more money from the same people.

Small Gods. My alter ego Patrick

Posted on June 07, 2010
Small Gods. My alter ego Patrick Hannigan meditates on the "spiritual but not religious" trope: The ragtop was down, the radio played ?Drift Away,? and the sky was baby blue over the raked edge of my windshield, but a sand-in-my-shoe comment I?d seen a few hours before kept me from singing backup for Dobie Gray...

Eve Tushnet - Cultural Rebel. According

Posted on June 06, 2010
Eve Tushnet - Cultural Rebel. According to Anne Althouse: "She was drawn to the Catholics among them, who corrected her misimpression that the existence of sin 'means you are bad.' It means 'precisely the opposite,' they taught her. 'It means you have a chance to come back and repent and be saved,' she says...

Obama may have lost the Left, but

Posted on June 06, 2010
Obama may have lost the Left, but he still has his base - Europeans. The U.K.'s Telegraph explains why it's now cool to bash Obama outside of Europe: Europe still worships him and Washington's Obamatrons remain smitten, but former supporters are turning on the President, writes Toby Harnden...

The greatest General to come out

Posted on June 06, 2010
The greatest General to come out of the Civil War.... ...according to Military Historian John Keegan was U.S. Grant, which comes as a surprise to those raised on the cult of Lee and an image of Grant as a "butcher."  The truth is that Grant's Vicksburg Campaign, which involved changing sides of the Mississippi, defeating two larger armies and laying seige to Vicksburg was a masterwork of

Clear winner for outrage of the

Posted on June 05, 2010
Clear winner for outrage of the day. Liberal media darling Helen Thomas - aka the Widked Witch of the West - tells Israelis that they should get out of "Palestine" and go back to Poland and Germany.

Gender and Economics. University

Posted on June 05, 2010
Gender and Economics. University of Chicago Economics Professor Casey Mullgan explains: For many reasons, women are paid less than men. One is that many women have jobs with more desirable schedules. Last week I wrote about how more women than men have been employed in payroll positions during the winter months of this recession, and how in April 2010 men regained their majority, with 50...

What's wrong with listening to

Posted on June 04, 2010
What's wrong with listening to podcasts about the history of Minoan Bull Leapers? Someone sent this to me, because, they said, it reminded her of me.

"Spiritual but not religious." David

Posted on June 04, 2010
"Spiritual but not religious." David Mills has a commendible essay on the problem with the rubric of "spiritual but not religious" that a lot of people want to wear.  The problem is that this wifty slogan - noteworthy for the elbow room that it gives to those who like that designation - is, to the extent that it is vacuous, of no use whatsoever against the hard-edges of life as it is really

Aquinas in the News. Pope Benedict

Posted on June 03, 2010
Aquinas in the News. Pope Benedict is spending three Wednesday audiences on St. Thomas Aquinas. Speaking of St. Thomas, here is terrific short lecture on "love" as Aquinas understood it - love as a choice.

You put the Sestak job offer together

Posted on June 03, 2010
You put the Sestak job offer together with .... ...these job offers to Colorado Dem Andrew Romanoff to get him to quit his campaign for the Democrat Senate nomination against Democrat incumbent Michael Bennett, and the mystery of why all those Democrat Senators and Congressmen voted against the interests of their constituents becomes a lot less mysterious...

"D.A. Closing Church Abuse Inquiry

Posted on June 02, 2010
"D.A. Closing Church Abuse Inquiry With No Charges" Sandra Hernandez at the Daily Journal writes: LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office is closing its investigation into Cardinal Roger Mahony and other high-ranking leaders of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles into whether they shielded abusive priests from prosecution for child molestation, with no charges

Nationalizing the "Chicago Way." Michael

Posted on June 02, 2010
Nationalizing the "Chicago Way." Michael Barone explains the logic of the Obama-style of politics: Assume that the private sector will always be there to plunder. Obama could not have risen so far so fast without a profound understanding of the Chicago Way...

History Buff Stuff. Vatican World

Posted on June 02, 2010
History Buff Stuff. Vatican World War II newspapers are being put on-line. Pave the Way Foundation has received permission from the Vatican's semi-official newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, to publish online its archived editions from 1938 to 1945. The New York-based foundation, a non-sectarian organization whose mission is to identify and try to eliminate obstacles between religions and to

The Augustinian Aquinas. David

Posted on June 02, 2010
The Augustinian Aquinas. David C. Steinmetz argues for an Aquinas for Protestants.

The Affirmative Action President.... ...is

Posted on June 02, 2010
The Affirmative Action President.... ...is also the "thin-skinned President": Obama is among the most thin-skinned presidents we have had, and we see evidence of it in every possible venue imaginable, from one-on-one interviews to press conferences, from extemporaneous remarks to set speeches...

Killing the "Life Unworthy of Life"

Posted on June 01, 2010
Killing the "Life Unworthy of Life" - It's not just for Nazis anymore. Lydia McGrew at What's Wrong with the World points out a reader's letter to Human Life Review which goes as follows: I am 91 years old, had my first heart attack in January 2009...

Now is the best of all possible

Posted on June 01, 2010
Now is the best of all possible times to have an empty suit as President. Trillions of dollars of unpayable deficits, oil destroying the Louisana fishing industry, North Korea threatening war, the Euro collapsing and now Israel unofficially has its unofficial nuclear weapons sitting on submarines off the coast of Iran...

The Affirmative Action President. Roger

Posted on June 01, 2010
The Affirmative Action President. Roger Kimball notes that like a lot of Obama-supporting Republicans, Peggy Noonan has lost that lovin' feelin' for the President. He also puts his finger on something inchoate that has sort of been floating around:  Incompetence...

American Characters. The Collyer

Posted on May 31, 2010
American Characters. The Collyer Brothers - introducing 1940s America to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. This observation from Io-9 to a lost bit of Americana. I'll be honest ? living with Mark Benford (above) for a week wasn't easy. For all the semi-coherent vitriol he spouted about Lost (i...

The Gospel According to Bart. Dan

Posted on May 30, 2010
The Gospel According to Bart. Dan Wallace deconstructs Bart Erhman's biased textual analysis. This psychological analysis seems accuate: Second, what I tell my students every year is that it is imperative that they pursue truth rather than protect their presuppositions...

The "Me President." Never forget

Posted on May 30, 2010
The "Me President." Never forget that no matter what happens, it is all about Obama.  The Best of the Web offers this from the President who uses more "first person singular" pronouns in official speeches than any other president: What exactly is the job of the president of the United States? Let's ask the man who currently holds that position, Barack Obama: My job right now is just to make

Speaking of Christopher Walken.... ...one

Posted on May 30, 2010
Speaking of Christopher Walken.... ...one of Walken's funnest roles - where he gets to really chew up the carpets - is as Gabriel in the Prophecy.  The Prophecy also starred an unknown Viggo Mortensen as Lucifer. It was one of those where after he struck it big you go back to the movie and realized that he was that "bit player" in that movie...

Dennis Hopper Tribute. Two of

Posted on May 30, 2010
Dennis Hopper Tribute. Two of the creepiest actors face off in True Romance.

The Problems of the Affirmative

Posted on May 29, 2010
The Problems of the Affirmative Action President. Peggy Noonan writes: I don't see how the president's position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president's political judgment and instincts...

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