Monday, July 27, 2009
Postracial
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Friday, July 10, 2009
Toilets
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Think think
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Monday, June 8, 2009
Unspecified Crimes
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Cowed by Communists
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Words
2. "I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence."
Give up? Well, number one is President Obama at Notre Dame. Number two is President Obama just the other day. So, we're not supposed to be demonizing each other, but...that doesn't mean we can't make broad brushstrokes about the other side, right? Some nutjob murdered Dr. Tiller (the notorious abortionist), so of course that means pro-lifers are prone to heinous acts of violence.
First off, I'd like to point out that there is a subtle yet very important difference between "pro-life" and "anti-abortion," which is quite visible in Tiller's murderer. Second, this is too subtle for many people to notice, but Mr. Obama is a master of words. That doesn't mean that he is sincere.
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Wasting Time
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Mental Yawn
Monday, May 18, 2009
Pig Flu II
Pig Flu
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
I live
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Monday, April 27, 2009
ND Scandal Escalates
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
An American Catholic
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Japan and Foreigners
Saturday, April 11, 2009
Friday, April 10, 2009
Klavan On The Culture: Shut up
I don't know if there's any way to determine if the "Shut up" effort is as coordinated and organized as he implies. I'm somewhat skeptical, but I wouldn't rule it out. Regardless, I do agree with the trends and strategies he points out.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
Take that, pirates!
Saturday, April 4, 2009
View of Japan: Flower Viewing
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Inexcusable! No, wait...
JPII
This is post-partisan
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Father Barron on Barack Obama's "The Audacity of Hope"
I saw this linked on another Catholic blog, but I can't remember which - apologies!
Fr. Barron is very articulate and gives some intelligent and well-thought-out observations about Mr. Obama's most recent book. I'll have to watch more of his videos.
Sex and Candy
Look how far we've come
Sleeping saves lives
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
寂しい
Monday, March 30, 2009
"Dialoguing" with Mr. Obama
More appeasement and selling out our own?
De-baptization or something
The decline of academia
Latest ND Coverage
Condoms sometimes ok, says bishop
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Head to head about ND
Hmmm...back to appeasement?
More ND Coverage
Friday, March 27, 2009
What, told you so?
Bravo Mr. Hannan
Watch as Daniel Hannan, a member of the European Parliment, blasts British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. I wish someone would give a similar speech to Mr. Obama. However, he's new in office and it's going to take the American public some time, I'm afraid, to realize what's going on. Pay attention to Mr. Hannan as he speaks of squeezing the productive bit of the economy to fund the unproductive, and the foolishness of trying to "spend your way our of recession or borrow your way out of debt." Sounds a lot like what we're doing, doesn't it?
More attacks on the Pope
It said the male latex condom was the single most efficient way to reduce the sexual transmission of HIV/Aids.
"Whether the Pope's error was due to ignorance or a deliberate attempt to manipulate science to support Catholic ideology is unclear," said the journal.
What? Catholic doctrine aside, how can condoms be more effective than abstinence? If you don't have sex, you have a near 0% chance to contract HIV. If you and your partner are HIV-free and you stay faithful to one another, you also also reduce your risk almost 100%. Condoms promote promiscuity and increased sexual activity, which in turn raises the risk of getting or spreading an STD. What is so absurd about that?
Sounds to me like Lancet has an agenda to push.
You may fire when ready
Not just Japan
The real meaning of separation of Church and State
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Tidying up
Jenkins' act of public disobedience
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Notre Dame scandal heating up
Many alumni are taking action, as are several student groups. But the administration seems to be standing firm. I don't expect this will amount to much more than a hullabaloo in the long-run. It's another strike for ND's Catholic affiliation status, but how many strikes they need before they're out of there is anyone's guess.
I suppose that's not completely fair, though. It would be more justified for the reprecussions to fall on Fr. Jenkins and the administraton, not the school itself. After all, there are plenty of alumni, factulty, and students who oppose this; just not enough, it would seem.
Oh boy..
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
No more game consoles, proposes OnLive
Depopulation on the horizon
The Bishop on ND and the overall problem
This will be the 25th Notre Dame graduation during my time as bishop. After much prayer, I have decided not to attend the graduation. I wish no disrespect to our president, I pray for him and wish him well. I have always revered the Office of the Presidency. But a bishop must teach the Catholic faith "in season and out of season," and he teaches not only by his words — but by his actions.While I'm not sure that the bishop's absence will make much of a difference in th overall scheme of things, I respect his decision, and I suppose it's doubtful that he had the authority to do much more (bishops +1). What remains to be seen, and what will perhaps have a bigger impact, is what action the students of Notre Dame take, as noted by Emily at the Shrine of Holy Whapping.
Relativity
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Return
Thursday, March 12, 2009
Excursion
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Nonvital?
More pirate troubles...
"Doing a good job"
And now we're paying for ESCR
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Yay our system!
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Progressive Catholics
Some enlightened people would like to banish all concepts of retribution or desert from their theory of punishment and place its value wholly in the detterence of others or the reform of the criminal himself. They do not see that by so doing they render all punishment unjust. What can be more immoral than to inflict suffering on me for the sake of dettering others if I do not deserve it? And if I do deserve it, you are admitting the claims of 'retribution'. And what can be more outrageous than to catch me and submit me to a disagreeable process of moral improvement without my consent, unless (once more), I deserve it?
The demand that God should forgive such a man while he remains what he is, is based on a confusion between condoning and forgiving. To condone an evil is simply to ignore it, to treat it as if it were good. But forgiveness needs to be accepted as well as offered if it is to be complete: and a man who admits no guilt can accept no forgiveness.
Traditionnnn! Tradition!
The truth in comedy
Thursday, March 5, 2009
Obamedia starting to waver..
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Not enough madness in our schools
Monday, March 2, 2009
Bishop Martino continues to lay down the law
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Obama to revoke conscience laws
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
US and the Muslim world
We get what we vote for
40 Days for Life
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Our man Martino
Grammar!
Say Cheese
Bishop Williamson...
Pirate Patrol
Monday, February 23, 2009
New Feature
Pow!
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Japanese kids are comedic geniuses
Friday, February 20, 2009
North Dakota, Abortion, and C.S. Lewis on Liberal Christianity
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Nancy goes to Rome..
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Monday, February 16, 2009
Nuclear Subs Crash
Britain's most senior sailor, First Sea Lord, Adm. Jonathon Band, said the underwater crash posed no risk to the safety of the submarines' nuclear reactors and nuclear missiles. But he offered no explanation of how the rare incident might have occurred.
Status Update
Friday, February 13, 2009
The People's Stimulus: Get Your Money Back
I like the way that woman puts it near the end -"We need to help ourselves."
Yup.
Friday, January 30, 2009
New RNC Chair
Indeed
Guest Opinion: Youngsters Today
First of all, yearning for some kind of sexual freedom is nothing new -- look at the flappers of the 1920's (rowr, check out her ankles!), and the drug-happy hippie generation of the 60's. At least the roaring 20's had a depression (I hear it was great) to knock some sense back into people, and tell them "Hey, stop screwing around and go work in a coal mine for 18 hours a day." We hit a lull in the 70's, as well. I was born in '79, so I don't remember much of it. What we need to remember is, their behavior back then was just as shocking at the time, compared to all the crap these kids are doing now. Back in the 20's, women were going to bars, smoking cigars, prostitution was everywhere and they were starting to bare more skin. In the 60's, people were having unprotected orgy sex in the mud, high as hell off LSD.
A big part of the problem now is that hippie generation went and had itself a whole bunch of kids (we fall close to this category), and as parents, they're afraid of being hypocritical. How does a generation that was defined by free love and experimentation now turn around and have to play the role they were rebelling against? And so, maybe they're a bit more lax in their parenting. This isn't the case EVERY time, but it's pretty common, at least based on what I've seen. And now those children, who had more lenient parents, are becoming parents themselves -- parents who were never truly disciplined, and therefore, won't be nearly as hard on their children.
Take all that, and combine it with the fact that we now live in a society of instant gratification. When I was a young, curious lad, I stumbled upon an old Playboy in one of my dad's old shoeboxes (his storage system of choice), and THAT was my source of sexual material. A few years beyond that, once cable TV was a part of our household, I'd have to sneak out into the living room at 4 in the morning to see boobs. Volume on mute, of course, lest I wake the folks. Today, any 12 year old boy with a computer and an internet connection (which nearly every house now has) knows what "Yahoo" or "Google" is, and can find pictures or videos of hardcore sex acts with a few clicks of the mouse. And most kids today have computers in their room, or know a friend who does; it's TOO easy to obtain porn.
Along with instant gratification, we're also escalating. Paul, you may be a bit too young to remember, but when Madonna came out with a new video in the 80's, it was cause for alarm. Compared with the music videos of today, she's almost tame. Same for TV shows and movies. Shock value keeps increasing while attention spans keep decreasing; I think the internet (again) is to blame.
Humans have always tried to top one another. It's what we do. With the internet, there are now millions (billions?) of people all trying to top one another at once. Remember when you were a kid -- if you were the best at Street Fighter II in the local arcade, you were THE best. Now, everyone's hooked up to the internet, out to top one another. Same with sexuality and shock value. Except before, when only "artists" - singers, actors, painters, and what have you - could join in, today, ANYONE can. Hell, a good 3/4 of YouTube is all one big pissing contest. "Oh yeah? I can top that."
With the exception of "Jukin' Japan," of course. I find that guy delightful.
So...we live in a world where sex is at our fingertips, and almost everyone in America is broadcasting their lives on the internet, trying to be the most popular...and we're SURPRISED morals have hit a steep decline? If anything, I'm surprised things aren't much worse right now. I hear some of the people around me at work talking, and I just don't "get" it. Bragging to one another about their drunken, meaningless sex with "what's-her-name," as if sexual conquests were medals of honor. But then, the braggarts will keep bragging, and those of us with a bit more moral fiber will keep silent. And in our silence, society will keep shining the spotlight on the voices it CAN hear, in the name of entertainment. Nobody's going to pay a $10 movie ticket to watch a bunch of high school seniors NOT try to have sex with the hot cheerleaders.
And for all the young kids growing up today, looking at that spotlight...well, you know the old saying. "Monkey see, monkey do."