Liberal Talk Radio

Once again, due to travel, the podcast is about 24 hours behind schedule, folks. We’ll have something up by Tuesday AM.

The U.S. Air Force has adopted the phrase “Above All” as its new slogan. My evidence is strictly circumstantial, but I regard the Air Force slogan’s similarity to the results of a Youtube search for the phrase as…probably more than coincidental. Really, how much less subtle could this be? To paraphrase Mitt Romney, who let [...]

I’m no Beckett scholar, but for some reason I find myself re-reading the second act of Waiting for Godot this am. Personally, I take the play as a denunciation of human inaction arising from the (mistaken) belief that someone (Godot) is going to magically appear and save us, if only we wait faithfully for his [...]

sigh A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work. In an interview published Sunday, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico told La Repubblica daily he frequented online gay chat rooms and met with [...]

I didn’t know anything about the late Drinan, who was both a congressman from Boston and a Roman Catholic priest until Pope John Paull II made him step down (priests should be loyal to the Vatican and to God, the Pope reasonably argued). This was of course, back in the 1970s, when priests like Father [...]

If you haven’t been following the latest annoying right-wing meme (and you are forgiven for not doing so), Rep. Virgil Goode is up in arms about Rep.-Elect Keith Ellison’s decision to use the Koran for his ceremonial post-swearing-in photo op (that’s right, contrary to popular belief you don’t swear your oath on the bible, but [...]

Am I the last one to realize (via) that Harry Reid is a Mormon convert?

Those wacky Catholics are at it again. This time: replacing elements of the current liturgy with translations “closer to the original Latin”. Among the changes: Catholics will have to learn longer and more awkward versions of familiar prayers. For example, instead of saying, “Lord, I am not worthy to receive you,” in the prayer before [...]

The Thursday Styles section reveals how mohawks are the new monk cut: “There’s a charm in being the rebel,” said Edmund Gibbs, a professor of church growth at Fuller Theological Seminary and the author of books on alternative Christian culture. Besides, he said, rebellion is consistent with the lessons of the Bible. “If evangelicalism means [...]

It fascinates me that even with the war, hurricanes, a housing price bubble and more, it’s been such a slow-boil kind of summer that intelligent design has become a topic du jour. Maybe I’m not the only one with fond memories of long nights spent in dorm hallways, quoting philosophers half-understood. At least it moves [...]