Wednesday, April 4, 2018

It's Not Often [Never, in Other Words] That a Nearby High School Makes the Ethicists' Discussion Board

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But, here you go: Then we have Zach Cassidento, a high school senior at Amity High Regional School in Connecticut who was suspended and ar...
Tuesday, April 3, 2018

A Lot of Catholic Writers are Reading The Coracle...

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...and getting ideas from it, apparently. The first is a review of the works of Ross MacDonald, whom we profiled this year: He Stands A...

Apparently, This is Against the Law

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Teen needed to wake up for church on Easter. His mother tased him, Arizona police say [Hat tip to Jeanne, our most faithful reader.]

The Disintegration of Knowledge

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What Happens When You Fire All Your Copy Editors and On Good Friday, an NPR report mangles the definition of Easter

It's a Fine Line Between Satire and Reality

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HARTFORD, CT—St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church prides itself on staying on the cutting edge of progressive theology and practice. This steadfast...

Let Us Prepare to Meet Our Doom

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To be fair, their teachers knew none of this, either. My students are know-nothings. They are exceedingly nice, pleasant, trustworthy, mos...
Monday, April 2, 2018

A Brief Hiatus

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It's been a brutal Lent and Holy Week, folks.  We have encountered mortality, violent happenstance, a large collection of folks trul...
Sunday, April 1, 2018

Speaking As Someone from the Middle of Nowhere, I Appreciate These Observations

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The middle of somewhere Also, Kristol and Clinton can get stuffed.  After nearly forty years in New York/ New England/ Ivy League, I'm...

Settled Science Sure Can Be Unsettled, Can't It?

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Shot:  Flashback 2000: ‘Snowfalls are now just a thing of the past’ – ‘Children just aren’t going to know what snow is’ – UK Independent C...

Dear London Colleagues Who Abhor Our Second Amendment

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London murder rate is HIGHER than New York's for the first time ever after TWELVE killings in just 19 days In the USA, a villain risks...

This is Why I Left Academia; I Prefer to Use English Rather Than...Whatever This Is

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Saturday, March 31, 2018

Good News for Chris. Even Better News is That Christ is Risen.

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Happy Easter, everyone.

NBC's Star Reporter Thinks Good Friday is When Christians Strive to Be Good

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NBC's star reporter is a bit of a nit, isn't he? Do you want to serve Christ?  Help our media members learn about basic Christi...
Friday, March 30, 2018

The Morning Watch

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There will not be a Friday biography this week as we are spending the period from Maundy Thursday's stripping of the altar to the tol...
Thursday, March 29, 2018

Wow, It Really is a Special Week: Baseball Starts!

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The Magic and Mystery of Baseball
Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Anatomy of a Grass Roots Campaign

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March for Our Lives is funded by Hollywood celebs, it’s led by a Hollywood producer and its finances are routed through an obscure tax firm...

The Review is Far Better Written and More Sensitive Than the Piece of Offal That is Reviewed

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What is Sean Penn thinking? His debut novel is a mess, again.  Rather like its author.

About Time, Frankly

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Deep in the crater of a volcano sits a new memorial to Pacific Theater chaplains

Science is Never Settled. Well, Except for Environmental Science; That's Always Settled Because Shut Up, Denier

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Scientists say they’ve discovered a new organ — possibly the human body’s largest — and it was hiding in plain sight, according to a new stu...
Tuesday, March 27, 2018

This Would Help His Worries: Cut Taxes, Cut Small Business Regulation

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Connecticut Governor's New Worry: State Workers Hurt Feelings He still has time for his favorite Manhattan tanning clinic, so it's...