Over at Icons and Curiosities , Sally asks the rest of us to join in her and Jody’s churchfest . This morning my friend Matt Alderman inadvertently answered the call at the Shrine of the Holy Whapping , posting photos of St. Elizabeth’s, Bratislava, also known as the Blue Church. I . . . . Continue Reading »
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 »
My thoughts exactly : The problem was not that the screen was in black-and-white; if it had really been black-and-white, that would have been fine. The problem was that the screen was gray. And it wasn’t just gray; it was a greenish, sickly gray. A postmortem gray. The resizable typeface, . . . . Continue Reading »
The internet just made it easier to find out. A searchable database containing the service records of 250,000 soldiers is now available. Find your ancestors. Or old rivals. . . . . Continue Reading »
All right, ladies and gentlemen. It’s time to get serious. Jody has shared a church with us.I have shared a lot of churches with us.Does anyone else out there have a church to share with us? Anyone? Anyone? Jody suggested collecting prettiest and ugliest churches, but perhaps we could come up . . . . 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 »
Tune into Secondhand Smoke to find out why . . . . . Continue Reading »
Obamacare will tax some unhealthy lifestyles. Now, we should add users of sunbeds to the list. From the story:The International Agency for Research on Cancer announced Wednesday that it had elevated sunbeds, used by tens of millions of people for tanning, to its highest cancer risk . . . . Continue Reading »
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