Posts from the ‘Culture gone mad’ Category
I got all weirded out by finding out about a mystery writer recently. So now I don’t know whether I can keep reading her books or not. And I don’t know if that’s just me, or if it’s the kind of thing that other people would understand.
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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.
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I’m in the airport waiting to go home, and the young people across from me are talking about the election. The funny thing is that I knew they were doing that even before I heard what they were saying. It was obvious from the change in body language, how they suddenly turned towards each other […]
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… the death of newspapers Did you know that newspapers are going away? They are, and at the rate they’re sinking, the form they’re in 10 years from now will be hardly recognizeable. No one’s fault, really — it’s called ‘the internet’ and it delivers more information that you really care about in a second […]
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A lot of little blogworthy musings on my second-favorite topic have been bouncing around my head. Given that Fr. Alexander observed “Everything in and of our culture is about the Kingdom of God, either for or against,” it may just be that these thoughts dovetail with thoughts about my most favorite topic.
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The word ‘superstition’ has come to be a handy code word. By employing it strategically, a whole new generation of atheists has been able to describe any beliefs that can’t be proved by empirical evidence, from belief that Jesus Christ was the Son of God to the Loch Ness monster to lucky horseshoes. In lumping […]
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Following up to that last post about the virus e-mail I’ve been getting, I got a (real) e-mail from MSNBC’s Website in response to my suggestion that they post a warning on their site about the spurious e-mails. Well, no such luck with my suggestion, but at least I’ve got a little more info now. […]
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This is off-topic, but we’re obviously all computer-savvy people, so I thought it was worth doing my little bit to get the word out. There’s a nasty, nasty virus e-mail going around right now. This isn’t one of those silly phishing letters with half the words misspelled that screams out ‘fake!’ This is an entirely believable-looking […]
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Erin Manning is filling in on Rod Dreher’s Crunchy Con blog, and she has some very good answers to those who argue for gay marriage. She also brings up the fact that in terms of the long-term affects of this, no one has answers. But then those who are in favor of homosexual marriage are […]
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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 […]
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