Month May 2008
Gerald Augustinus is a popular blogger who runs one of the best named blogs in the Catholic blogosphere, The Cafeteria is Closed. The title of his blog is a direct reference to Cafeteria Catholicism. Namely picking and choosing, like one… Continue Reading →
TiVo is the worst thing to ever happen to me, everyone I know, and America in general. Probably Europe too but…they’ve got a lot of other problems too so let’s leave them out of this. Remember the good old days… Continue Reading →
‘Might our religion be killing us?’ That’s what a Baptist minister was asking recently in an editorial in USA Today. Rev. Oliver “Buzz” Thomas writes: Be fruitful and multiply,” says the book of Genesis, and Lord knows we have. To… Continue Reading →
Fool and Unusual Punishment—330 Year sentence for a 72 year old white collar criminal. McCain Speaks, Get Your Decoder Ring Out—Pssst! He’s Talking About the A word. Boris! Boris! He’s Our Man…—New London Mayor says “Don’t ignore faith based groups.”… Continue Reading →
72-year-old Norman Schmidt is not a good guy. Schmidt was recently convicted of serious white collar crimes including: [USnews]According to the Department of Justice, hundreds of investors gave Schmidt tens of millions of dollars. Schmidt and others said they would… Continue Reading →
Senator John McCain is talking to you. What? You can’t hear him. Listen harder. Nothing? Oh wait, you’re not wearing your decoder ring. McCain is talking almost incessantly the last week about abortion and freedom of religion. The media’s not… Continue Reading →
Newly elected Conservative mayor of London Boris Johnson says that enough to the secular wall established against Christian groups has got to go. In an interview in Religious Intelligence, the Mayor said that the good work done by Christian groups… Continue Reading →
Novelist Stephen King recently insulted the troops by saying to a room full of children, “If you can read, you can walk into a job later on. If you don’t, then you’ve got the Army, Iraq, I don’t know, something… Continue Reading →
Mennonites For Obama?—Barack Obama seems to have locked up the college-aged Mennonite vote. You Gotta’ See This—Strangest Nun Name Ever Nuns Neglecting Their Husbands—A Tale of Two Nunneries 10 Year Olds Knew it in 1948—Catholic Comics Got it Right, Why… Continue Reading →
Goshen College student, Emily Miller shows off her support for her candidate for president on the door of her dorm room. (Antonio Perez, Chicago Tribune / April 29, 2008)I am not sure if it will help him much, but Barack… Continue Reading →