Books to Read

Archbishop Charles Chaput tells us what we should be reading.

(h/t)

Filed under: Books, Catholic, Classics, Education, Entertainment, History, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Rome

Election Headline of the Day

Heh: “Maine Voters Agree with Obama on Gay ‘Marriage’”.

(via Glenn)

Filed under: America, Current Events, Funny, Hippies, Politics

Screw You, Hulu!

Hulu.com will start charging people to watch TV shows, according to EW, around 2010.

Funny; that’ll be the time I stop watching Hulu. Glad I didn’t sell my old desktop computer with TV tuner card!

Filed under: Amazing, Current Events, Entertainment, Movies, TV, Tech

It’s Only Life or Death!

John Unger: “The best thing that ever happened to me was the night an angry, messed up cab driver pulled me into the back room of a 24 hour diner and held a huge handgun to my head for over ten minutes, all the while describing in intricately fetishistic detail exactly what would happen when he pulled the trigger.” Seriously?!

(h/t)

Filed under: Amazing, Education, Entertainment, Manliness, Personal

Klingons for Christ

Ka’plah!

Filed under: Amazing, Catholic, Entertainment, Funny, Prayer, Religion, Star Trek

Confessions of a Home-Schooler

Salon.com features the start of a feature about the experiences of its home-schooling editor.

Filed under: Current Events, Education, Funny, Politics, Religion

Punk’s not Dead

Awesome:

(h/t)

[Sorry for the short posts lately, getting ready to move into a new apartment in Beantown and still have to do that work thing. Hopefully, things will calm down soon. -ed.]

Filed under: Amazing, Entertainment, Music

You’re Welcome

Got 4 minutes? How about a review of the major memes of Youtube?

Filed under: Amazing, Current Events, Entertainment, Funny, Movies

The Emmy’s Go Wrong

DR. HORRIBLY WRONG, that is:

Awesome.

(h/t)

Filed under: Amazing, Current Events, Entertainment, Funny, TV

A Political Gadfly

The NYTimes profiles James E. O’Keefe III, Eagle Scout, student of G.K. Chesterton, and my personal hero for the moment.

Filed under: Amazing, America, Current Events, Education, Elections 2010, Entertainment, First Amendment, Hippies, Politics, Scouting

Need a Guinness?

There’s an app for that!

And yes, it is a lovely day for a Guinness.

Filed under: Amazing, Apple, Entertainment

Scariest Movie Ever?

Screen Rant has the trailer. Looks interesting.

Filed under: Amazing, Current Events, Entertainment, Movies

I’ve Got a Fevah…

…and the only prescription is MORE OBAMA!

(If you don’t get the reference:)

(full version)

Filed under: Amazing, America, Current Events, Entertainment, Funny, Hippies, Irony, Politics, TV

Need a Bruce Campbell fix?

There’s an app for that!

Say it with me now: “This. Is. My. BOOM-STICK!”

Filed under: Current Events, Entertainment, Funny, Movies

All right!

We can expect more BRUCE CAMPBELL in Spiderman 4!

Filed under: Amazing, Entertainment, Movies

Crying Baby? There’s an app for that!

No, seriously:

(h/t)

Filed under: Amazing, Apple, Entertainment, Funny, Tech

Mike Rowe Works!

Even if it’s Labor Day.

Filed under: Amazing, Current Events, Education, Entertainment, Politics, TV

Strange, That

VDH:

What is strange about all this chic-radicalism is how would-be revolutionaries that wish to dismantle America as we know it and/or emulate failed systems abroad, always do so from comfort, security, affluence, and freedom of choice unique to America and Europe, suggesting that radical politics and those who agitate for them are sort of a fashion statement, aimed to resonate among particular elite leftist audiences and to bring dividends from them, but not to be taken too seriously as guides in their own lives.

Filed under: America, Current Events, Democracy, Hippies, Irony, Politics

Alinsky Nods

Tigerhawk on the right’s new interest in Saul Alinsky: “My theory, which I have written before, is that the right was essentially ignorant of Alinsky and his book until Barack Obama became a leading contender. Suddenly, even the mainstream media was interested in understanding, or at least explaining, what a ‘community organizer’ is.”

(h/t)

Fr. Z notes an interesting acknowledgment:

Acknowledgment from Rules for Radicals

Filed under: America, Books, Current Events, Democracy, Education, Hippies, Politics

Wish it was Real

A honest answering service at a public school:

(h/t)

Filed under: Amazing, Education, Entertainment, Funny, Politics

The War That Never Ends

Terry Teachout: “the success of ‘Inglourious Basterds’ suggests that most Americans, no matter how they feel about waterboarding, gay marriage or health-care reform, pine in their secret hearts for a lost world in which everyone can agree on at least one thing: Nazis are no damn good.”

Filed under: America, Current Events, Entertainment, History, Movies, Politics

Woodstock Authoritarians

George Neumayr: “The unruly left-wing protesters of yesteryear have become the authoritarians of today, criticizing and clamping down on protests far tamer and more sober than the ones they engineered in the 1960s.”

Filed under: America, Hippies, History, Music, Politics

Is this why I am so happy?

Scientists: “Those who abstain from alcohol are also more likely to lack social skills and have higher levels of anxiety, it was claimed. Non-drinkers even have more mental health issues than those considered heavy drinkers, the survey found.” Hah! In your face teetotalers!

Filed under: Alcohol, Amazing, Education, Entertainment, Funny

A Facebook Exodus?

So says the NYTimes. But wait: “In short a New York Times article, an article from The Newspaper of Record, is based entirely on a reporter talking to her chums.”

Filed under: Amazing, Current Events, Facebook, Funny, Tech, Web 2.0

Things Not to Do

When taking over the world.

Filed under: Amazing, Education, Funny, Irony