The Summer of Weird

Some weird things are going on. Like the oft-quoted Chinese curse to live in interesting times, the news cycle the past few months has been filled with the typical mix of the banal and the ultra-serious. It has been hard…

Profaned Among the Nations

The Second Commandment, that of not taking the Lord’s name in vain, is, like all the Ten Commandments, a summary of a deeper, tangled web of sinful thoughts, actions and tendencies which plague fallen humanity. For example, we all know…

The Great Regression

Recently I decided to torture myself for my Lenten Penance by reading another “exposé” by Vice, which has fallen so far from what actual journalism they used to do almost a decade ago in regard to the Islamic State and…