Rod Dreher is on a roll: Another dad, surveying with his wife the options for a Halloween costume for their young daughter, found the following choices: Witch slut. Witch whore. Baby witch cheerleader slut. From hell. Who dresses their kids in this crap? I’m not some Puritan — if you’re an adult or my prom… Continue reading

Ten years ago today…when I had basically given up on the idea I was ever going to meet ‘the right girl’ and was becoming resigned to the reality that I was going to be an Irish bachelor (and a pretty pathetic one) for the rest of my life, I met my wife in a movie… Continue reading

Edward T. Oakes, S.J. on Cardinal Schönborn’s latest book: …Schönborn can be quite witty. He recounts the story of one of his brother Dominicans harping at table every day about a book he planned to write that was going to prove that man is not essentially different from the other animals. Finally, another Dominican grew… Continue reading

Steve Matheson, writing up more good science: 1. Does the evolution of new features require new, rare, mutations in major genes? Perhaps this seems like a stupid question to you. Anti-evolution propagandists are eager to create the impression that evolutionary change only occurs when small numbers of wildly improbable mutations somehow manage to help and… Continue reading

A great summary of the ’07 ALCS by The Sports guy: Baseball is the only sport where a single person can shut up 55,000 people for an extended period of time and eventually break their will. This was one of those times. Just a virtuoso performance. Yep. It gets better with the emails he received:… Continue reading