From this morning’s reading in “Patristic Theology” by Fr. John Romanides:
“For real equality to exist, the human personality must first be healed. If it is not healed, any ideological system whatsoever, no matter how perfect it may be, cannot be implemented, because instead of genuine representatives of the ideology working for the system, those looking […]

As of 12:47, the situation on the Somali pirates was that(*) they still have the American captain hostage and that “other pirate-held ships were being moved towards the area.”
As of 10:47, the president still didn’t want to even comment about the situation. This, after the White House’s official word, hours after the hijacking yesterday, that […]

“The elite journalists, I repeat, got Obama wrong. The troglodytes got him right.”
Um, thanks. I think.
That comes from this article on three smart-guy journalists that have become apostates to Obama-worship.
Same article gives us this ‘aha’ moment from Christopher (Son-of-William) Buckley: “Government is getting bigger and will stay bigger. Just remember … that a government that […]

It’s an overcast Sunday, Greg is upstairs taking a Sunday nap and so, for some reason, the mysterious little voices in my head told me … it’s time for the poncho!
This would be the genuine Stylish Reversible Celtic Poncho that I purchased so proudly a couple years ago, only to find that Greg has […]

Well, thank goodness. Here I was thinking that the guys driving the bus were insane. Now that Fred has explained it all to me, I feel so much better.

Phew! There’s a load off.

I’ve grown used to the fact that an average newspaper story on President Bush goes something like this:
Adolph Hitler President Bush goose-stepped his lying, chimp-like little self to the pressroom today to announce another of his completely idiotic ideas…
Whereas the average Obama story goes something like this:
President John F. Kennedy President-elect Obama and his lovely […]

Some of the mainstream media are acting like a person with a hangover trying to figure out what happened last night.
The Washington Post’s ombudsman deals with ‘morning after’ guilt over the paper being in the can for Obama:
The Post provided a lot of good campaign coverage, but readers have been consistently critical of the lack […]

On the lighter side:
Obama Win Causes Obsessive Supporters To Realize How Empty Their Lives Are

Conservatives are supposed to be being conciliatory right now. We’re supposed to be acting classy and doing all that elegant stuff like congratulating Obama and taking our rightful place as the losers with the ‘good sport’ pin on our lapel.
That’s baloney. I’m a sore loser, and I’m honest enough to admit it.

In a way, though, […]

The New York Times decided to go on one of its occasional forays into the strange world of alien creatures and talked to (ick) religious people. The occasion for this was to do a tremulous read on whether these strange life-forms are reacting positively to Sarah Palin, but I don’t cite the piece to argue […]