Joseph Bottum

Over at Instapundit , in the course of calling David Frum a Gloomy Gus, Glenn Reynolds writes : conservatives and libertarians should be feeling a lot better than they did a few months ago, as the Obama aura is dissipating much faster than even the most optimistic might have expected. Is this . . . . Continue Reading »

Here, via an inventors’ site, is an image of the design to which official United States Patent D367147 has been granted:It’s apparently a design for pieces of Christian art that use Christ himself as the cross on which, um, Christ is crucified.That’s a genuinely inventive . . . . Continue Reading »

A public-school wrestling coach in the heavily Muslim Dearborn, Michigan, is suing on the grounds that he was fired for being a Christin by his Muslim principal. From a Thomas More Law Center press release about the case: Trouble started between Fadlallah and Marszalek when one of Coach . . . . Continue Reading »

I didn’t know about John C. Wright till, this winter, the science-fiction writer and reviewer Robert Chase sent me a note suggesting I read Wright’s Golden Age series. You gotta love Wright, though, for this recent response to a reviewer (noted over at the always-interesting Postmodern . . . . Continue Reading »

The caved linden wood crucifixes offered by this site are not bad, but this saccharine head, I think, just doesn’t work:and this is even worse:Sleeping through the crucifixion. . . . . Continue Reading »

Over at Image , Santiago Ramos joins First Things ’ campaign to colonize Mars. Slowly but surely, we’ll reach a majority: We seem to aim at so little today, to have such small interests in mind. No wonder the biotech visionaries have gained a hearing: They claim to be going somewhere. . . . . Continue Reading »

A really fascinating piece on science and faith. From The Anchoress , of course. You are reading her every day, aren’t you? . . . . Continue Reading »

Oh, I remember these:The chapel in the basement of the high school was all in this style. We sang the matching songs there, as well, of course. All by the St. Louis . . . . Continue Reading »

A piece on teaching just-war theory to robots . Kind of. Military robots were once again in the news this month with headlines like “Corpse-eating robot” (Wired), “Robot . . . to eat all life on Earth” (The Register), and “Sniper Bot Refuels by consuming human . . . . Continue Reading »

I was going to say that the Da Jesus pendant was the worst I’d seen in a while:but then I stumbled on this legless, diamond-loinclothed Jesus, yours for only $9,800:Someday, Sally, we have to have that serious talk about beauty and devotion, about the desire to proclaim the kingship by using . . . . Continue Reading »