"Car 207, we’ve got a 499 at the McDonald’s at 6-1-5 North US-1. Please respond. Over." Angered that her local McDonald's was out of Chicken McNuggets, a Florida woman called 911 three times to report the fast food "emergency." Latreasa Goodman, 27, last Saturday called p...

Flickr CC: sappymoosetree When I was still young enough to believe my parents’ deception, the Tooth Fairy at my house gave us a quarter ($.25) per tooth. But check this out, via the Chaska Herald: The 2009 Tooth Fairy poll shows a decrease in the average gift Minnesota children receive from th...

"Erit enim tempus, cum sanam doctrinam non sustinebunt, sed ad sua desideria coacervabunt sibi magistros, prurientes auribus. Et a veritate quidem auditum avertent, ad fabulas autem convertentur." (2 Timothy 4: 3-4). And that time is now. New Age philosophies are spreading throughout the Church. Hom...

As I slowly work my way through Luke’s gospel, there is a slight difference in the accounts of Matthew & Luke.  Matthew says, “Then the devel left him, and angels came and attended him.”  Luke puts it this way, “When the devil had finished all this tempting, he left him...

Note: Dawn and I began writing series in time for the February 1 beginning of Black History Month. It has “marinated” as a draft this long because of our desire to tackle what could be controversial issues without causing unnecessary offense. Refocusing Our Concept of Black History ̵...

Recently, I left a comment at a Blog authored by a very fine Catholic which was intended only as an observation. My comment was immediately perceived as a "criticism" even though there was absolutely nothing critical in the comment or its tone. This is unfortunate. For while it is good to be sensiti...

Florida crazy + San Francisco crazy = Jeb! Bush for President 2012!!! And we can thank this gentleman for reminding us very explicitly that Jeb once governed the Pride of the Nation. By the way, Jeb Bush's real name is John Ellis Bush. So "Jeb" is really a bastardization of his initial...

"The mini-sized payout the jury awarded for emotional distress to the firefighters speaks volumes about the so-called notion that they endured severe or pervasive trauma while wearing earphones, sitting six feet off the ground inside a fire truck with the windows rolled up and a roaring diesel engin...

You know what we find annoying? Lies. You know who tells and/or fosters lots of fibs about civil marriage equality in order to keep gays away from it? Gay rights opponents. You know who's helping to cut through the noise in New York? The Empire State Pride Agenda, who have put together a list of com...

RTFA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7897034.stm Women are prouder than men, but men are more lustful, according to a Vatican report which states that the two sexes sin differently. A Catholic survey found that the most common sin for women was pride, while for men, the urge for food was only sur...