The glory days of Mystery Science Theater 3000

I was looking up pirate books for my kids to add to my wish list (Try Croce’s Pirate Soul, but note you can get it for much cheaper at Amazon). Yeah, you got me. I like pirate stuff too, and I was into pirate/Caribbean history long before the Depp movies, so there nyah! Anyway, in my surfing [...]

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Error of the Day: “The people have spoken!”

I’ve heard several conservative Catholics cry, “the people have spoken!” in triumph of the passage of Proposition 8 that adds to California’s constitution: “Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
I’m fully sympathetic to the victory which reaffirms that people are still largely unwilling to sign on to a legal fiction, [...]

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Red Cardigan is not impressed with the Star Trek Reboot Trailer

I had similar thoughts when I watched it, but she puts it better than I could:
It’s one of the most maddening things about schlocky science-fiction. I don’t mind cardboard characters and cardboard plots and cardboard action sequences and cardboard aliens with the usual assortment of unbelievable appendages and cardboard ship battles with their complete laws-of-physics [...]

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Stuff White People Like blog is too much fun.

Ok, I just repeated their last entry, but I couldn’t resist. As a musician who has had to endure people gassing on about the Blues as if it descended as a dove and whispered the 12-bar form into Robert Johnson’s ear, I almost shot coke out my nose reading:
#116 Black Music that Black People Don’t [...]

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Error of the Day: If bishops do not excommunicate pro-abortion politicians, it means there are no grounds for it, and so the laity should shut up.

At the Catholic forums, I posted this in response to someone calling for silence from the uppity laity on excommunication:
Yes, it’s the bishop’s call, I don’t think anyone suggested otherwise. But just because it is ultimately his call, doesn’t make it a forbidden topic of discussion. It is one thing to say that a bishop [...]

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Hammerfall encore.

Someone commented that there isn’t enough Hammerfall on my blog. Ok, fine. Here’s another. Not as cheesy as their Army of Darkness/Swedish curling team vids, but the guitarist’s mail armor, cape, and bracers makes up for it. That and he looks like the parking-lot attendant in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off Oh yeah, it’s not (thank [...]

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Ouch! “Stuff White People Like” hits me square between the eyes!

#115 Promising to Learn a New Language
Writing a novel, going vegan, or sending their future kid to public school are just a few of these great breakable promises. But by far the most common self improvement promise is to learn a new language.
This plan is first formulated when white people realize that two years [...]

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Do you get “Holiday” catalogs? Then celebrate Tossmas!

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Error of the day: Abortifacient vs. Non-abortifacient contraceptives

One error that keeps cropping up in Catholic circles is that the Church’s objections to contraception rest on the abortifacient properties of some contraceptives. Abortifacient means roughly that the contraceptive might somehow destroy any already-conceived embryo or fetus. Well, you can probably see where some are going with this–if it is the abortifacient properties that are the meat of [...]

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Paladins of “Tolerance” at it again.

H/T Mark Shea

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