Apr
22
The most honest footnote I have ever seen
April 22, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s a fairly common tactic to discredit studies you disagree with by noting the “impure” funding and sponsorship that possibly taints the research that went into the study. So that is why I absolutely love this footnote I came accross in a paper on “green jobs.” Readers should be just as skeptical of us as [...]
Apr
22
Bishop D’Arcy: Fr. Jenkins is “simply wrong”
April 22, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s going to be difficult for Fr. Jenkins to argue himself out of this one. As the American Papist reports, his Bihsop has issued a very stern rebuke of Fr. Jenkins. Recently, Father John Jenkins, CSC, in a letter of response to Bishop Olmsted of the Diocese of Phoenix, who had written him, critical of [...]
Apr
22
How Hitler Hated “Hitler’s Pope”
April 22, 2009 | Comments Off
Matt Archibold of Creative Minority Report links to a story in the Telegraph regarding Hitler’s plans to abduct Pius XII, and the Vatican’s plans to respond to such an occurrence. This causes Matt to ponder: Weird, huh? Why would Adolf Hitler be coming up with a plan to kidnap the Pope if the Pope were [...]
Apr
22
“I am compatible with all faiths on the planet”
April 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
So said Les Knight, founder of the “Voluntary Human Extinction Movement” to Laura Ingraham after she asked him about his religious preference. How new agey. How progressive. How nauseatingly banal and predictable. Moreover, how incredibly stupid. In order to be “compatible” with all the faiths of the world, wouldn’t one have to subscribe to the [...]