Author Patrick Archbold

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People have strange notions of God. A semi-agnostic co-worker recently remarked to me that he regards the Bible as so much hooey because the God of the Old Testament is mean and wrathful while the God of the New Testament… Continue Reading →

Listen folks, I don’t have many rules of thumb, but I have some. One is that if Fr. James Martin, S.J. of America magazine and I both think you are off your rocker, you must really be in the deep… Continue Reading →

I’ve often read that the scientific mind and the musical mind are similarly wired. I believe it because I have not been blessed with an understanding of either. I simply don’t speak music or science. I hear music. I enjoy… Continue Reading →

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” — Samuel Johnson When reading the absurd comments of Harry Knox, who serves on President Barack Obama’s faith-based advisory council, I cannot help but think… Continue Reading →

Its a classic case. He got really high at the beginning and everything seemed better. Everything seemed to go his way. So he kept using. But over time it didn’t have the same effect anymore, so he used more. But… Continue Reading →

Choose your own metaphor. I say this is a metaphor for the Democrats insistence that passing healthcare is essential to their electoral survival. What do you say? ht ViralFootage

Irony is absolutely lost on some people. Would you find it ironic if I used a large platform to demean and demonize those whom I find distasteful for my own ideological reasons. What if I were, through a series of… Continue Reading →