I recently attended a network event as a panelist on the subject of social media. Before the panel discussion part of the evening began, a group of about one hundred attendees who work in PR and/or own a business, were mixing and mingling in the pre-show drinks and nibbles party. I was standing in a...

Although Christianity and all the other religions annoy the hell out of me, yet, I shall remain unbothered because I am aware that Christianity, like any other religion, is a false attempt to demonize the divinity within and to worship a deity outside of yourself whom you must appease, fear, and to ...

The La Salette Shrine in Attleboro, Massachusetts will be offering a Lenten Series led by Fr. John Sullivan, M.S. and members of the dissent group Pax Christi*. Pax Christi seems to have found a home at this La Salette Shrine. Even more disturbing, however, is that the shrine will be conducting a se...

Update, 12:41 pm: Luis Castillo met with reporters at Tradition Field a few moments ago. Castillo told reporters he contacted the Mets following last season to say he felt badly about his 2008 performance and that he was embarrassed. He said he knows he can do better in 2009. Castillo also said he i...

A reader sends along this equally creepysick piece from 2001 in which Righties go all orgasmic over... Donald Rumsfeld. One of the odder markers of a culture in decay (or, at any rate, an apostate Puritan culture in decay) is its weird inability to keep from sexualizing things that, ick, should *not...

  Bill Gates wants rich people to feel the pain, so he unleashed mosquitoes on them. Really. "The Impaler," a self-described "Vampyre" who ran for Governor of Minnesota in '06 as the Vampyres, Witches and Pagans party (wha?) candidate, has been arrested for harassing his...

Over the weekend, a meeting of 700 Episcopalians at a Reston, Virginia, Hyatt hotel agreed that the diocese needed to take steps toward including gay and lesbian relationships into church doctrine, resolving that relationships ought to be "characterized by fidelity, monogamy, mutual affection a...

Michael Novak is an ex-Reaganite, a campaigner for Catholic causes, and a staunch conservative, at least at this point in his life. He also writes blogs for the National Review Online, though if Bill Buckley were alive he would long for the grave reading Michael Novak’s drivel. Today’s c...

Chris Price recently wrote an article on Luke's census. In the comments section, an anonymous poster responded with some claims about the alleged gullibility of ancient people and supposed parallels between ancient non-Christian miracle accounts and the miracle accounts of the New Testament. There a...

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