We’d be much better off if our politicians stuck to politics and the entertainers to entertainment.
Archives for May 2024
Headline of the day: “History Major Discerned Call to Priesthood While Working at Wawa”
How could I resist calling your attention to a headline containing the words “History Major,” “Priesthood,” and “Wawa”? From Catholic Philly: Born and raised in Glenside, and a parishioner at Saint Luke the Evangelist Church, Transitional Deacon Brendan Zehner says he […]
Pope Francis on Texas immigration policy: “That is madness. Sheer madness”
Over at Religion News Service, Claire GiangravĂ© reports on Nora O’Donnell’s 60 Minutes interview with Pope Francis. Here is a taste: Conservative opposition to this pontificate by bishops in the United States is “a suicidal attitude” that clings to the […]
Hamlet and Trump
Something is rotten in the state of Evangelicalism . . .Â
The irony of Trump-positive evangelicals in 2024
In 2024, the Trump problem for evangelicals is bigger than ever.
Evangelical roundup for May 20, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Is evangelicalism “loosening?” Does Donald Trump share the values of American evangelicalism? The National Association of Evangelicals explores racial justice and racial reconciliation: Shane on Gaza: French evangelicals supports a new law to combat […]
Catholic Feminists Should Offer Grace to Harrison Butker
The reality of human lives is lost in the rush to judgment
Jake Wallis Simons for The Telegraph: “The case against Israel has just collapsed”
Hamas has been the source of estimates of casualties in Gaza in the war so far. They lied.
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Daniel Schillinger reviews occasional Current writer Anton Barba-Kay’s A Web of Our Own Making: The Nature of Digital Formation. Maureen Dowd on Bill Maher Has “heterodoxy” become its own orthodoxy? […]
Do some progressives owe apologies?
Here is Bill Maher, Pamela Paul (New York Times) and Nellie Bowles (The Free Press):
CNN political commentator Alice Stewart has died
For those of us who regularly watch CNN for our news, this is a terrible loss. Stewart was a rational and smart conservative voice on the network. More on Stewart’s life and career here.
Robert Jeffress, Fox News, and pickleball before dawn
In this video, Fox & Friends interviews pro-Trump pastor Robert Jeffress at 5:41 AM. It’s dark, there is a pickleball referee on site, and there are cheerleaders. I also learned that First Baptist Church is known locally as the “Baptist […]
What if Biden and Trump tied?
Joshua Zeitz asks us to remember the Election of 1824: In the case of a tie, which hasn’t happened in exactly 200 years, the House decides the election, per the 12th Amendment, with each state delegation allotted one vote. Republicans […]
Image of the day
Memories of the Jersey shore–specifically the boardwalk at Seaside Heights.
Gnawing on lead shot “for pleasure”: A Revolutionary War-era barracks is found at Williamsburg
Here is Michael E. Ruane at The Washington Post: Years after the Williamsburg barracks wereburned, former Continental Army soldier Spencer Davis, of Virginia, recalled seeing the glow from the blaze in the distance. A British force had pounced on the […]
Donald Trump and the Electoral College, circa 1999
As most of you know, Donald Trump has never won a popular vote for President of the United States. In 2016, he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly three million votes. In 2020, he lost the popular […]
Ali vs. Cosell
A short video today for the sports fans in the room:
One great Unicorn for your weekend: Daniel Nayeri’s commencement speech for Wheaton!
Daniel Nayeri’s commencement speech for Wheaton’s graduation this spring is magnificent.
We are #41!
I have no idea what this means, but a site called Feed Spot ranks The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast 41st in its “70 Best American History Podcasts” list. We haven’t done a new episode yet in 2024, but […]
Chaos in the House Oversight Committee. Lauren Boebert makes the sign of the cross.
Everyone is talking about what happened last night in the House Oversight Committee, and it was not the scheduled discussion about holding Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt. Watch: I’ll let others comment on the insanity. What I found interesting […]