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The hippies did it

Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Via Kos, big news: A five-year study commissioned by the nation’s Roman Catholic bishops to provide a definitive answer to what caused the priest sexual-abuse crisis has concluded that neither the all-male celibate priesthood nor homosexuality are to blame. Instead, the report says, the abuse occurred because priests who were poorly prepared and monitored, and […]

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It’s been nice

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Just my luck. As I mentioned a couple of days ago, my new Ipad finally arrived after a several week wait. Today I find out that I won’t be enjoying it for long, because the whole world is going to end on May 21st. [Harold] Camping, an engineer by training, says he came up with […]

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A Hellishly bad column

Monday, April 25, 2011

I have never before read a column by Russ Douthat, the columnist presently occupying the conservative slot at the Times. But I decided to do so today, since my wife told me that one of the people she follows on Twitter said his column today was the stupidest column he’d ever read. I couldn’t resist. […]

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Bless me Father, I have sinned. And I know exactly how many times and when.

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Finally, just what all Catholics have been waiting for: an Iphone app of their own. It’s Confession: A Roman Catholic App, which TUAW says “happens to be the first iOS app to receive an imprimatur, which is essentially a blessing from the church to publish the app.” This is a great idea, and it looks […]

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Grifter Nation, local edition

Sunday, February 6, 2011

Samuel Johnson said that “Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”, but surely he was wrong. It may be next but one, but surely, as Chuck Colson, John Rowland, and many others have proven, the very last refuge is religion. I submit that skipping patriotism, or at least skipping the money making side of […]

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O’Reilly’s proof of god

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Here’s a good take down of Bill O’Reilly’s “tide goes in, tide goes out” proof of the deity’s existence. According to Bill, the fact that the tides never miss a beat is proof that there must be a God, for after all, who can explain such wonderful regularity. As it turns out, lots of people. […]

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Fast tracking sainthood

Saturday, January 15, 2011

It appears that good Pope Benedict is in an unseemly rush to sanctify his predecessor. For the non-Catholics among you, I will explain first that the Catholic Church has appointed itself God’s master, so to speak, in that it can declare a person a saint. Many a sinner has apparently entered heaven that way. The […]

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Sigh

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

We are watching the proceedings in Arizona. It appears to be a religious ceremony. Eric Holder just read from an Epistle of Paul, in which we are assured that Jesus, who it is presumed we all worship, is with us. Thus are large chunks of Americans excluded from the ceremony, including, at least in part, […]

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They can dish it out, but they can’t take it

Thursday, December 16, 2010

I realize that I should be writing about stuff that matters, but things are really just too depressing out there, what with the “compromise” and all down there in Washington. So, I prefer to celebrate a tiny victory. Down in Fort Worth, in Texas, the state where they inflict prayer on you at high school […]

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The New York Times follows the Day’s lead

Sunday, November 14, 2010

A while back I noted that the New London Day printed a story about some ghostbusters, without giving even a passing clause to the idea that, just possibly, there are no such things as ghosts. PZ Myers points out over at Pharyngula that the New York Times is apparently as credulous as the Day. The […]

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