I link to him all the time, but I can’t seem to help myself. Fr. Z. is quickly becoming my other new hero, closely following the Holy Father.
I couldn’t possibly do justice in an excerpt to his analysis of this execrable take on Summorum Pontificum by National Catholic Distorter “Sistah” Joan Chittister, OSB, so you’ll just have [...]
Archive for the ‘Funny’ Category
The Inimitable Fr. Z.
Posted in Funny, Motu Mania on July 11, 2007 | 11 Comments »
Thirty Things That Don’t Bother Me
Posted in Funny, Why Am I Posting This? on June 11, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
When Jeff tagged me with this about a week ago, I was annoyed. Not at Jeff, but at the fact that I immediately began to panic. Thirty things that DON’T bother me? Could I come up with such a list? After all, as my wife so often likes to remind me, I hate everything.
So I’ve [...]
There’s a Perfectly Reasonable Explanation
Posted in Catholic, Funny, Motu Mania, News on June 6, 2007 | 3 Comments »
The Globe and Mail is reporting that a funny thing happened on the way to the papal audience today:
VATICAN CITY — A person hurled himself over a barricade and tried to jump into the back of Pope Benedict XVI’s Popemobile during his general audience Wednesday in St. Peter’s Square and was wrestled to the ground by [...]
Getting Rid of Television
Posted in Common Sense, Education, Family, Funny on June 5, 2007 | 9 Comments »
Today is the day.
I’ve toyed with the idea for years, but I’ve also resisted it. For a couple years running, I decided we needed to give up TV for Lent. Those were good Lents. That was the beginning of the end of TV in our home.
We’ve had certain addictions, to be sure. Lost is foremost. Then [...]
That’s My Girl!
Posted in Family, Funny on May 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Sophia shows us her exquisite taste in cold beverages:
We have to be very careful not to leave any alcohol where she can reach it, particularly beer. The other day I left one I had just opened on the table and walked into the kitchen. In my absence, she managed to climb up my chair, crawl [...]
The Title Says it All
Posted in Funny, News on May 18, 2007 | 3 Comments »
“Short, fat people may get rights…”
12th Century Freelance Police?
Posted in Funny on May 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Daniel Mitsui posted photos of some carvings from the Romanesque church of Saint Mary and Saint David in Kilpeck, Herefordshire, England.
As soon as I saw this, I became suspicious. My guess is that Sam & Max finally perfected the art of Time Travel, and wound up amongst the Normans:
(And yes, I’m hotlinking. I need a free image hosting [...]
Old Nudists Never Die…
Posted in Funny, News on May 14, 2007 | 3 Comments »
…they just become recruiters. It appears that like many other ideas from the time of the inversion, Nudism is on the decline. Young people just aren’t interested:
Here’s the naked truth about nude recreation: The people who practice it aren’t getting any younger.
To draw 20- and 30-somethings, nudist groups and camps are trying everything [...]
Sometimes Local Food Ain’t Pretty
Posted in Food, Funny on May 9, 2007 | 3 Comments »
As, for example, in the case of the Kool-Aid Pickle (a.k.a. the “Koolickle”):
Those pickles were once mere dills. They were once green. Their exteriors remain pebbly, a reminder that long ago they began their lives on a farm, on the ground, as cucumbers.
But they now have an arresting color that combines green and [...]
Actions Have Consequences
Posted in Funny, News on May 9, 2007 | 2 Comments »
When parents instill this notion in their children, the children don’t wind up like this.
The petition reads: “Paris Whitney Hilton is an American celebrity and socialite. She is an heiress to a share of the Hilton Hotel fortune, as well as to the real estate fortune of her father Richard Hilton. She [...]
