Remember Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans who made such a great impression on us all during Hurricane Katrina by whining, complaining and leaving school buses to flood when they could have been taking people out of harm’s way?
Well, it’s official now. He’s a loon.
Surely God is mad at America. He sent us hurricane […]

I asked for this book for Christmas on a bit of a whim (which seems a little appropriate for an author known best for her Lord Peter Wimsey books), but I’ve been delighted with meeting up with a new “mere Christian” writer after the heart of C. S. Lewis. Dorothy Sayers was one of that […]

I’ve been reading through the Apocrypha — the extra books of the Old Testament that didn’t make the cut — and so far it’s been kind of unusual.
In the Book of Tobit, we have a man living after the captivity in Babylon who has a family, suffers blindness by curious means, sends his son […]

Last night, I had to finally look out my window after I had heard someone running up and down the street for about the seventh time. The running was sporadic, and it was flat-footed and artless, making a floppy, slapping noise as the person ran first this way and then, after a few minutes, that […]

From townhall.com, a column by one of Alito’s former clerks — a self-described liberal — taking issue with the attempts to “bork” the judge:
In light of the Alito feeding frenzy, I feel compelled as a liberal and a former clerk to speak out and attempt to offer a different perspective to perhaps stem, or at […]

I’ve been away for a late holiday retreat with my folks, and so I’ve missed the beginning of the Alito hearings. Doesn’t look like something that’s hard to catch up on though. All hail the blogosphere!

I checked out:

Drudge and Rush for the conservative take. Best Rush quote of the day: “We’re seeing that the Democrats […]

I thought that today’s reading of “Virtue in the Unseen Warfare” by St. Theophan had a real applicability to the first workday of the new year, so I pass along some excerpts:

Don’t procrastinate — Big surprise, right? What else would you expect St. Theophan to say. But as always, he follows up the exhortation with […]

Though I’m all for more Orthodoxy in all aspects of life, I can see how asking people to give up saying “Happy New Year!” in favor of “Happy Circumcision and Naming Day of Our Lord and God and Savior Jesus Christ, and Commemoration of St. Basil of Cappadocia Day!” would be a bit much. All […]