I’ve been an ardent and loyal fan of Tiger Woods since the beginning of his historic career. I’ve defended many of his outbursts as behavior he would one day leave behind. Well, if he were going to leave it behind, it would have been at the 2010 Masters, where he returned to golf after a … Read more
Year: 2010
I’ve been an ardent and loyal fan of Tiger Woods since the beginning of his historic career. I’ve defended many of his outbursts as behavior he would one day leave behind. Well, if he were going to leave it behind, it would have been at the 2010 Masters, where he returned to golf after a … Read more
Come Back, Tiger, When You Grow Up!
I’ve been an ardent and loyal fan of Tiger Woods since the beginning of his historic career. I’ve defended many of his outbursts as behavior he would one day leave behind. Well, if he were going to leave it behind, it would have been at the 2010 Masters, where he returned to golf after a … Read more
Pope Should Apologize and Explain
Benedict has been a great pope. His Regensburg Lecture will be admired for centuries. His encylicals, though dense, are profound and illuminating. And he is arguably the world leader in helping rid an institution of child sexual abuse. That said, all popes are fallible. Even Peter denied Christ three times. In the case of Benedict, … Read more
Oh my, matzo brei!
I haven’t taken a poll, but I think I’m the only blogger on this team who bought too many eggs for Easter and too much matzo for Passover. This sounds like a job for . . . matzo brei! This is a lovely, easy recipe for a tasty little dish suitable for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, dessert, or … Read more
Why Catholics Like Einstein
Science is mankind’s great success story since the Renaissance. Only the most obdurate Luddite can regret the computer chip, the Hubble telescope, and the heart bypass. But these material triumphs have come at a philosophical cost. The scientific method has been so successful in its own sphere that many intelligent people think it the only … Read more
Two efforts to support the pope and the priesthood
Here are two items I’d like to bring to your attention: This is the third day of a novena for Pope Benedict initiated by the Knights of Columbus. It began on Divine Mercy Sunday and ends on Monday, April 19, the fifth anniversary of the pope’s election. It’s not too late to join in — … Read more
Which religious groups are the most politically active?
Mark Chaves of the National Congregations Study has put together an interesting graph demonstrating the ways that different religious groups engage in politics. The numbers may surprise you. Chaves breaks down the results: First, notwithstanding extensive media coverage of political mobilization within conservative churches, conservative white Protestant churches do not stand out in their level … Read more
STUDY: Most Internet security advice is wrong
If you’re like me, every time some Web site’s security protocol forces you to use numbers in your password, you fantasize about reaching through the screen and throttling the site administrator. Well, we apparently have the right idea (not about the throttling). According to the Boston Globe, a new study — the first of its … Read more
Media Distractions
As the Mysterious Get Benedict Society campaign to destroy Pope Benedict XVI continues shooting itself in the foot with various false starts, half-baked stories, and tales told by mainstream media idiots, the thing that continues to impress me is the sheer self-contradictory irony of the thing. It’s really quite crushing. We are instructed … Read more
The Better Pope?
Ross Douthat’s column in this Sunday’s New York Times is definitely a thought-provoking one. He notes that, whereas Pope Benedict is repeatedly pummeled by the press, John Paul II was generally well-liked, or at least respected — but that doesn’t mean that he was necessarily the better pope: The last pope was a great man, … Read more
The State Scores Again
Let us set aside, for the sake of this essay, various questions concerning the recent health-care bill passed by Congress. We will concede the highly dubious proposition that it will hold down costs; that it will not add hundreds of billions of dollars to the national debt; that it will not lead to the queues … Read more
The bad business of the Postal Service
Whenever the fans of active government need an example of a state-run business that works “without taxpayer subsidy,” more often than not, they’ll trot out the U.S. Postal Service. Well, so much for that: The U.S. Postal Service’s current business model “is not viable” and the mail agency should make deeper job and wage cuts, … Read more
Michael Sean Winters In Defense of Benedict XVI
My sometimes sparring partner at America, Michael Sean Winters, has an excellent post on the latest attack against Benedict XVI. Here are the opening two paragraphs, the rest being well worth reading since Winters takes a close look at the documents purported to prove the Holy Father guilty of a “cover-up”: The whole world now … Read more
Gendercide’s tidal wave coming soon to China
It’s no secret that China has been practicing gendercide — the mass killing of unborn girls by abortion — for some time. Now this interesting piece in the UK’s Mail Online outlines the problems Chinese society will be facing by 2020, when there will be 30 million more men of marrying age than women. As … Read more
Too Many Catholics on the Supreme Court?
With the upcoming retirement of Justice John Paul Stevens, the media have once again started counting the number of Catholics on the Supreme Court. A recent headline in the New York Times announced, “Stevens, the Only Protestant on the Supreme Court.” Well, so what? The Times article notes that Stevens’ retirement raises the possibility that … Read more
Why I quit the census
You may have heard that the unwieldy behemoth known as the U.S. Census has been running into some logistical problems lately. Their numbers are That would be my fault. Despite the fact that I have to think hard to figure out which way to go at the end of my driveway (and I mean when … Read more
Sunday Comics: Technical Difficulties
Hi, I’d planned to post part 3 of Uncle Harry’s Monkey’s Uncle today, but due to a glitch at the source site, I can’t do so. Sorry! I’ll try to post it as soon as I see it’s been fixed.
A YouTube Clip Made in Retro Gamers’ Paradise
This little gem has been making the rounds lately, in both a “natural soundtrack” version (below) and a music video version (much less fun, yet included for the sake of comparison): This video got me so excited I had to rush off to classic-retro-games.com right away to familiarize myself with some of the old classics on … Read more
The man your man could smell like.
The following advertisement contains an attractive topless man. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Most people have seen this ad for Old Spice by now. The actor, Isaiah Mustafa, now known as “the man your man could smell could like,” has become a cult celebrity, according to Advertising Age. Proctor & Gamble Co. (owner … Read more