Joe Carter

The New York Times has a profile of one of the world’s most sucessful novelists. Can you guess who it might be? And no, it’s not Stephen King, John Grisham, or Dan Brown (over the last few years he has sold more books than all of them combined ). Here are some other clues: Since 2006, . . . . Continue Reading »

The functions of the family and church, says Douglas Farrow, are being replaced by the state : When I speak of the audacity of the state, the kind of state I have in mind is what we may call the savior state. The main characteristic of the savior state is that it presents itself as the . . . . Continue Reading »

David Daleiden and Jon A. Shields on why so many abortion workers have turned pro-life : In the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, second-trimester abortions were usually performed by saline injection. The doctor simply replaced the amniotic fluid in the patient’s uterus with a saline solution and . . . . Continue Reading »

Matthew Inman has an amusing graphical primer on how to use a semicolon . . . . . Continue Reading »

Okay, this is getting ridiculous. First, the claims by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that the world’s glaciers were melting so fast that those in the Himalayas could vanish by 2035 turned out not to have been peer-reviewed . Then it was discovered that the report wrongly . . . . Continue Reading »

In an interview with ABC’s “World News” anchor Diane Sawyer, President Obama said , “I’d rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president.” I’ll leave the witty retorts to others ( Keep doing what you’re doing, champ. . . . . Continue Reading »

Ted Genoways, editor of the Virginia Literary Quarterly, notes that the supply of short fiction far exceeds the demand : Here at VQR we currently have more than ten times as many submitters each year as we have subscribers. And there’s very, very little overlap. We know—we’ve . . . . Continue Reading »

When confronted with an absurd conspiracy theory, a rational personal often precedes through three stages: (1) dismissal (“No one can believe anything that ridiculous.”), incredulity (“I can’t believe people are buying this nonsense.”), and despair (“Will someone . . . . Continue Reading »

Whenever I worry what I would do if I was ever sent to prison, I take comfort in the idea that I could while away the time the way I did in my mispent youth: playing Dungeons & Dragons . So much for that plan. According to Ilya Somin at The Volokh Conspiracy : In a decision issued today the 7th . . . . Continue Reading »

So saith NPR: Catholic Church Joins Blogosphere; Pope Urges Priests To Blog Welcome, Catholics! I’ve never understood why you guys haven’t caught on to the whole blogging thing before, but we’re certainly glad to have you and are looking forward to seeing what you can do with this . . . . Continue Reading »