Submitted for your edification…a little scene from classical literature to set the tone for Lent, 2008. [Shot in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, on one of the lonelier roads weaving out of Franconia Notch….]

Keeping Things in Perspective Dept.Biologist Steve Matheson tells me that myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) is an interesting protein –and in one particular species, the yellow fever mosquito no less (Aedes aegypti), it contains the amino acid sequence FARRELL. Well, if that doesn’t keep a man humble, I don’t know what does.

It’s nice to see Scott Carson is back, and boy has his bulls&*t detector gone into high gear: As usual, though, the wackiest English cleric is no mere Bishop, it’s the Archwacko of Canterbury, who looks forward to the day when women will have to have their heads covered in church again–only this time it… Continue reading

Oh, boy. Here we go again. Rod Dreher: I don’t know how the Post got the story, but chances are someone tipped them off to Moynihan, and they cross-checked property records, phone records, etc. The diocese didn’t want to know what Fr. Moynihan was up to, period. And you need to ask yourself why. Why… Continue reading

William Murchison has some wise words for the tantrum prone wing of the Republican voting block: I have just the feeling that, with conservatives, this moment is one in which pique cancels out reason — a time for slamming doors and kicking the cat across the room — just because here at the end of… Continue reading