Since it’s Friday and the looming end of the work week naturally brings on thoughts of what beverages I’d like to concoct when I get home, have I mentioned that Richard John Neuhaus is my kind of priest? Note the cigar in addition to the cordial.

Anthony Lane dismembers Angelina Collagen’s Jolie’s new movie, Wanted. Is it me, or is she starting to resemble those mannequins that famed Italian horror film director Mario Bava put to such good use in his classics, Black Sunday and Black Sabbath?

Curt Schilling on Dan Shaughnessy’s ongoing problems with telling the truth. It’s not the first time he’s lied or misrepresented something, and knowing him it surely won’t be the last. The Red Sox did know that I was telling WEEI about the surgery and it was discussed with them the night before it happened. There… Continue reading

Jump ahead to the 13:00 minute mark.One of my favorite New Testament scholars, N.T. Wright, on the Colbert Report: Hat tip: Ben Witherington.

Steve Matheson speaks up for us ‘spineless appeasers’: 1. I embrace evolutionary explanations because they have explanatory power. For the same reason, I embrace naturalistic explanations for the development of the human brain, and for the causation of cancer, and for the formation of the Grand Canyon. All of these explanations involve mechanisms that are… Continue reading