How long did Rosie O’Donnell wait to say something offensive to believing American Christians — about five seconds?

Since I would watch “The View” only about as willingly as I would watch any other women-prattling-endlessly show, which is to say ‘not at all’, I didn’t catch Rosie’s remarks during the September 11 show, which was supposed […]

For those of you who didn’t have the four-plus hours to kill to see “The Path to 9/11″, and who couldn’t make heads or tails out of the allegations of Clinton administration alumni who pitched such a fit over it, here’s a cartoon by Michael Ramirez that boils everything down pretty concisely. Link is HERE. […]

On Saturday, Greg and I were in Chicago to visit a goddaughter, and we took a brief cruise that took us down the Chicago River and out into Lake Michigan. The tour guide mostly talked about … skyscrapers. Because we were mostly looking at … skyscrapers.
That was two days before today’s 9/11 anniversary, and […]

The person who listens to Christ fills himself with light; and if he imitates Christ, he reclaims himself.
– St. Thalassios the Libyan

Forget yourself and you will know yourself.
– Saints Barsunuphius and John

To bear a grudge and pray means to sow seed on the sea and expect a harvest.
– Saint Isaac the Syrian

The most recent Christian Carnival is up. For those of us new to all this fancy bloggy terminology, a “carnival” is an assemblage of blog entries that all share a common theme. You submit a blog entry with the links and a sentence or two about it and they fit in as many as they […]

Quick apology to those of you with RSS feed — I think I’ve been popping up too much.

Greg saw me doing my usual routine with long entries — making corrections and then re-publishing them — and mentioned that whenever I do that it gets sent anew to those with RSS feed.
Um, oops. I’ve been […]

Finishing up this big foursome, I felt like I had to at least try to define postmodernism and how the fall of the old regime is affecting what culture producers are doing now. For reasons I’ll go into below, the parameters of pomo are a little indistinct, but hopefully this’ll give an idea about it. […]

I was afraid of this — having slept on it, I thought of other things I left out. It seemed to come down to a handful of connected thoughts about Art and others about postmodernism. So I’ll break them out and insert the usual disclaimer that none of this may be worth the time it […]