I finished reading “Pillars of the Earth” by Ken Follett, and I was really conflicted about whether to say anything about it or not. It’s a hot-selling fictional treatment of how a 12th century English cathedral might have been built. That could have been a great book … heck, judging by the sales, a lot […]

Deb helpfully sent me off to this MTV page to translate some of Tom Cruise’s Scientology jargon from this video. As she says, some of the stuff still doesn’t make much sense. But at least I got an answer on the meaning of that bit about ‘getting those spectators out of there.’ Sure enough, “spectators” […]

Greg sent me this late last night, and I’m posting it right away because it’s very likely that it’ll get yanked off the internet REALLY fast. It’s a 9-minute video that Tom Cruise made to indoctrinate newbies into Scientology. The link is HERE.
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Tom Cruise is starting to be the new Michael Jackson. He just keeps […]

It’s bad this year. I hardly watch any commercial television, and when I do, I hardly ever sit through the commercials. There’s a mute button on the remote and a pause button (since I’ve got the digital satellite thing) and the all-purpose on/off button, and between those, it’s the rare time that I’m inert enough […]

I’m hoping that all God’s children have gotten the word by now, whether by e-mail or blog posts like Fr. Joseph’s (HERE) or articles like this one, but since so many people see movies over the Thanksgiving holidays, it’s worth a repeat: Don’t go to see the movie in theaters now called “The Golden Compass.” […]

Pretty off-topic, but I thought it was funny.
Via the London Times online: Paris is under attack by extremely well-organized stealth operatives who have been sneaking into museums and Parisian catacombs and … cleaning up historic sites. Or repairing things. Or holding poetry readings.

Mr Kunstmann belongs to les UX, a clandestine network that is on […]

Greg shared a YouTube video with me last week, and I think he did it on purpose knowing that it would bug me a lot. He was right. On the video you have Richard Dawkins, a well-known atheist, apparently (though not well-known to me. I don’t hang out with lightning rods.). He wrote a book […]

I’m old enough to remember when pro-abortionists (it was okay to call them that back then) were still saying what a golden era we were stepping into with Roe v. Wade. It was going to be just wonderful. With mothers blissfully free from doing anything even as complicated as crossing state lines to terminate their […]

Via Yahoo News: File this under People Who Don’t Know They’re Orthodox Yet:
PARIS (AFP) - A Cambodian-born French woman faces prosecution for criminal damage after planting a kiss on a
painting by the American artist Cy Twombly, leaving the imprint of her lipstick on the otherwise immaculate white canvas.

Good thing it wasn’t an icon she kissed […]

This will be my fifth cruise, and so I’m used to the fact that you spend the first couple days getting lost. I counted it as a victory today when I found the gym. I had followed the signs but always ended up in the wrong place. Today when I finally broke down and asked, […]