Sep
17
Dange, babye!
September 17, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Somehow I missed this one last month, but Geoffrey Chaucer hath reviewed Snakes on a Plane at hys blogge. Joe Bob says check it out, if you haven’t already.
Sep
15
What If Amnesty International Declared a War Crime, and Nobody Came?
September 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I wanted to make some remarks on Amnesty International’s recent report that Hezbollah was guilty of war crimes in its recent war of aggression against Israel, so I Googled “hezbollah war crime amnesty international” and I got about 50 billion hits on items regarding Israel’s war crimes, and only one hit on the report of [...]
Sep
15
Maybe a Fatwa Is In Order
September 15, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Pope Benedict XVI has drawn some criticism from certain Muslims because of remarks he made about Islamist extremists during his recent trip to Germany. According to the story in the New York Times, Reuters news reports that Aiman Mazyek, head of Germany’s Muslim council, said that the Pope is being a hypocrite when he criticizes [...]
Sep
14
Scientific Moronican
September 14, 2006 | Leave a Comment
If you’ve been a regular reader of Scientific American for more than about 15 years you will have noticed that the editorial stance has become not merely increasingly politicized over the years, but increasingly leftist in orientation. In general one can avoid this by skipping over much of the front matter, but of late this [...]
Sep
13
Tongue or Hand?
September 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment
I’ve never been a huge fan of disputes over how best to receive Holy Communion. Some folks seem to prefer receiving on the tongue, others in the hand; some kneeling at a Communion Rail, others while walking in procession. I have my own preference, of course–who doesn’t?–but I’ve usually thought that it was best to [...]
Sep
8
Ordinary Time
September 8, 2006 | Leave a Comment
Autumn has officially been upon the Carson household for more than two weeks now. The kids went back to school in late August–Michael started at the Athens Middle School and Olivia started kindergarten at East Elementary (also in Athens, though they don’t bother to make that explicit in the name; if only they had talked [...]
Sep
1
Truth and Tolerance at Work
September 1, 2006 | Leave a Comment
The New York Times is reporting that Pope Benedict XVI will be holding one of his annual seminars with former students this weekend and that the topic will be–get this–evolution. Although some folks have speculated that this seminar will provide fodder for the Look How Out Of It The Church Is crowd by endorsing some [...]
