I have a big head and a small body. This makes me look strangely asymmetrical, an impression that’s enhanced by a more general physical asymmetry. One ear higher than the other, a damaged twisted nose, one eye larger than the other, one shoulder pulled permanently lower than the other …

Politics in the US is already FUBAR. That’s the first surveyors stake to begin any assessment of the 2024 Presidential race. The incumbent is deeply unpopular, a lifelong waterboy for big business, risking nuclear confrontation in Eastern Europe, and doddering on the cusp of senility. He has been corrupt his…

Of course parents have a responsibility to parent their kids — but don’t lose sight of the fact that children have rights. — Bruce Arthur The above cut line is from an Toronto Star columnist attacking parents’ groups who don’t want schools teaching their children trans ideology, which the author…

This little Latin word, I’ve discovered, means either essence or to actually exist. It’s the second one, which I’ll call esse (2), that’s mischievous. Our untrained ears hear “actually,” out of an everyday linguistic promiscuity, as an emphatic adverb, the same way we hear people “mis” use the word “literally,”…

We like to encourage our kids to exercise their imaginations. This is misguided. No one can stop people from imagining; it’s baked into our nature and needs no encouragement. On the contrary, imagination requires discipline and restraint. We like to imagine that imagination is all about love, butterflies, and stardust…

Republidramas Starting last year, a cat fight broke out between Colorado Congresswoman Lauren Boebert and Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene which continues to this day. In today’s political attention economy, there can be only one lunatic gun diva. Late last week, a founding member of the American Gun Nut’s Women’s…

You’re a superstar Yes, that’s what you are, you know it Come on vogue — Madonna Most mugshots look pretty rough. The arrestee has generally been picked up drunk or high or having been in a fight or right after the cops have put knots on his or her head…

more than materialism Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world. — 1 John 4:1 Natural disasters In 1999, we lived in Raleigh, North Carolina. That was the year that Hurricane Floyd, a Category…

a book review The Genesis of Gender — A Christian Theory. Abigail Favale. Ignatius Press, 2022. 248 pages. Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll ’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son…