3D Tip Jar

Amazon mp3s

SiteMeter

Promote Your Blog

Say Three “Billie Jeans” and Four “Thrillers”

Catholic school suspends 9-year-old for Michael Jackson dance move, http://fxn.ws/xrsHK8

Kids today… They always wanna be startin’ something.

Save the Wails

The Gaia Cult is at it again… Suing the U.S. Navy to prevent sonar usage… for the whales.

http://yhoo.it/zD0AYd

Hey You Tube: You Suck

(Fortunately, Vimeo has stones).

Craptastic YouTube is at it again, freezing Palestinian Media Watches account for daring to post a video in which the Palestinian Authority Mufti says that it is the destiny of Muslims to kill Jews, which two of the more relied-upon Hadith’s actually say. But – hell – you [...]

Sistine Chapel

Take a 3D look at The Sistine Chapel

h/t: Instapundit

Pretransubstantiation…

From a blog called “Killing the Buddha” comes this interesting article on the making of, marketing of, and history of communion wafers. The melding of economics, religion, Vatican II, and the concerns of celiac disease suffering Catholics… and all while it’s bread and not Body:

Nineteen clicks of the mouse, the electronic brandishing of [...]

FOX News: Amish Sect’s Buggies a Traffic Burden for Some Kentucky Residents

Amish Sect’s Buggies a Traffic Burden for Some Kentucky Residents, http://fxn.ws/w0po3R

This will be an interesting case concerning an Amish sect out of Kentucky. While I’m strongly in favor of religious freedom, I side with the state here.

The Road to Morocco

Here’s a great piece from John Fund over at NRO on what Islamist compromise looks like in Morocco. It looks encouraging — but they don’t have complete control.

The palace’s first reaction to a street vendor’s suicide in Tunisia was to give every subject the right to place a piece of cardboard on the [...]

Clerical Error

Greek and Armenian Orthodox priests were duking it out with brooms at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem earlier…

Here’s the story from the BBCL

Greek Orthodox and Armenian priests and monks came to blows during preparations for Orthodox Christmas celebrations

Scuffles have broken out between rival groups of Greek Orthodox and Armenian [...]

King of the Jewpanese?

I learn something new everyday. Jesus is buried in Japan dontchaknow…. from io9:

In the 2,800-person village of Shing? in Japan’s Aomori prefecture, you can visit a tourist attraction that earns almost doodlysquat fanfare despite its world-shattering theological ramifications. I am, of course, talking about the grave of Jesus Christ. What, you didn’t know [...]

Harder to Believe Than Not To…

Flannery O’ Connor made the above comment. We in the U.S. have turned that statement somewhat askew. It is easier, though becoming more difficult, to be a nominal Christian (espouse belief) than not to thanks in no small part to our Founding Fathers and their belief in “freedom of conscience”. If you don’t believe be [...]

Full Circle

Just in time for Christmas comes the latest work from Christian and philosopher Alvin Plantinga. Here’s the book:

And here’s a nice profile from The New York Times:

For too long, Mr. Plantinga contends in a new book, theists have been on the defensive, merely rebutting the charge that their beliefs are irrational. It’s [...]

Would You Like Some Cheese With Your Whine?

Theodore Dalrymple… one of my favorite, if one of the more doleful, writers around has written a brilliant post-mortem of this past summer’s London riots for City Journal. Here’s a bit — go read the rest of “Barbarians on the Thames” here.

Resentment is a powerful, long-lasting emotion that usually is self-serving and [...]

The Arc of the Covenant

Whither the Ark of the Covenant? I think Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark probably is true — the ark is in a government warehouse. It just smacks of truth. However, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church claims — and has claimed for years — that they have it. We may get to test [...]

The Power Of Prayer

From Fox(y) News comes this important story. I know what a big draw Salma is around here so…

By Nadia Mendoza, Dailymail.co.uk

She defies the size zero ideal of beauty with her vivacious curves, but Salma Hayek claims she didn’t always have the womanly figure she is recognised for now.

The Mexican actress, [...]

Religious Liberty For Me But Not For Thee

As election results from Egypt pour in showing that Islamic extremists won over 60% of the vote (let that sink in for a moment) I am even more ardently convinced that the so-called “Democracy Project” emphasized by George W. Bush is a fool’s errand — no matter the soft-headed idealism (read naivete). One doesn’t allow [...]

The Light shines in the darkness and the darkness did not comprehend it.

I love Christmas. It’s the linchpin of our civilization not to mention the beliefs of billions of us. And so that brings us to Advent. Salisbury Cathedral in the UK has an annual Advent service called From Darkness to Light. Here’s a story from the Daily Mail:

The annual From Darkness to Light advent [...]

He Must Not Be an Iron Maiden Fan

While I’m sympathetic to the idea of not dabbling in the occult and celebrating the number of the beast (regardless of how one reads Revelation it is clear on the number — whatever its usage) — this is idiotic.

Billy E. Hyatt claims he was fired from Pliant Corp., a plastics factory in northern [...]

The Post-Ironic Era: Exhibit DD

I’m sure this will be done very tastefully and they’ll be very careful not to offend any Christians:

Sex-tape veteran and frequent “Playboy” Playmate Pamela Anderson is reclaiming her virginity, at least on Canadian television.

The former “Baywatch” babe will play the Virgin Mary — yes, the chaste mother of the son of God [...]

Gathering Up the Smooth Stones

Bernini’s David

It seems that Belmont Abbey College, a small Catholic college, is gearing up for a fight against Obamacare and the arrogance of its namesake and its main cheerleader — Kathleen Sebelius:

Early last month, President Obama bragged to a St. Louis crowd about the recent Health and Human Services’ regulations that will require [...]

The Sorcerer’s Appendage

A Sudanese man was recently beheaded — in a parking lot in Saudi Arabia — for being a sorcerer.

Shocking footage has surfaced of a Sudanese man being publicly beheaded in Saudi Arabia for being a ‘sorcerer’.

Crouched on his knees and blindfolded, Abdul Hamid Bin Hussain Bin Moustafa al-Fakki was executed in a [...]