March 2013
-
Rejoice and sing now, all the round earth, bright with a glorious splendor, for darkness has been vanquished by our eternal King.
-
Despite my intense desire to make caustic remarks about various current events, I won't be posting anything until at the earliest sometime late in the day Sunday. I'll look in here occasionally to get rid of any spam that makes it through (TypePad recently switched spam-fighting software and the new system seems to miss more),…
-
The king was hale and vigorous and greatly feared by his enemies. He had a little cough, not much to notice or to inconvenience him. But his old physician recognized in it the distant rattle of death. The physician offered him the remedy, but the king would not accept it. "It has a bitter taste,"…
-
You remember her, right? The author of Against Autonomy: Justifiying Coercive Paternalism? Here she is again, making her case in the New York Times apropos the almost-universally-scoffed-at ban on 64-ounce “sodas” (sorry, the term is still a little foreign to me). I continue to be astounded by her serene confidence that social science and government–armed…
-
Remember the Objective Room from C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, an environment designed to undermine or destroy a person's natural responses to disorienting or repellent things? This story made me think of it: as part of a university (!) classroom exercise students were told to write the name of Jesus on a piece of paper…
-
Again, whatever science my mind is cultivating, on whatever object it fixes its thoughts, whether I reflect upon others or upon myself, all lifts me up to God, all leads me back to him; he is the first link in the chain to which all truths hold; he is the last, in which they all…
-
A pro-gay-marriage comment on a news story: We ARE all equal.That cannot be argued. If you are arguing it, you are inferior, and don’t deserve equality for yourself. and they say conservatives are illogical. I laughed, but it’s not at all funny to consider where this train of thought will carry those who insist on…
-
Which is the more wonderful name: Gussie Fink-Nottle or Catsmeat Potter-Pirbright?
-
Maybe I just wasn't paying as much attention, or maybe I've forgotten, but I don't remember there being quite so much fuss at Benedict's election. I do remember all the leftists who smeared him as an unrepentant Nazi, and of course the progressive Catholics who had always disliked him (to put it mildly), and the…
-
On Interstate 65, southbound, coming into Prattville, Alabama, there are two billboards on opposite sides of the highway: one on the right from some shyster advertising $199 DIVORCE! and one on the left side advertising ADULT SUPERSTORE! (In case anyone reading this isn't familiar with the euphemism, "adult" in a context like this means "pornography.")
Light On Dark Water 