Fox News' celebrity division (Fox 411) has titled its blog on Lady Gaga's latest video, "Alejandro" provocatively enough: "Lady Gaga Is Latest Celeb to Abuse Catholic Imagery in Hollywood's 'War on Religion.'" Now that's a mouthful. Gaga's use of a PVC or rubber nun's habit and...
Posted February 17, 2010 | 12:52:00 (EST)
"Eat the world" is the slogan of the food court at a high-end Magnificent Mile mall in Chicago -- and it delivers. From sushi to stir fry, pasta to pancakes, all that stands between an eater and a defenseless world is the cash to pay for it.
"Eat the...
Posted February 4, 2010 | 17:45:47 (EST)
News today that should scare the hell out of anyone who wants to die in peace: British scientists have discovered "cognition" in a vegetative patient. Actually, they have found a single person out of 54 vegetative patients who seemed to be able to respond to a yes or no question...
Posted January 14, 2010 | 16:00:51 (EST)
Somebody has to stand up for God here.
God does not send earthquakes to punish poor people. Or tsunamis. Or AIDS. Or any other disease. Just because God does that in any number of religious texts doesn't make it so. Any god who did that wouldn't be worthy of a...
Posted January 8, 2010 | 15:03:17 (EST)
Poor Tiger Woods. First your philandering gets galactic coverage -- did you see the New York Post's virtual calendar of Tiger's den-mates? (now that's classy!) -- and, now, Fox anchor Brit Hume is giving you spiritual (mis)direction.
Much hay has been made of Hume's attempts at...
Posted December 29, 2009 | 13:26:00 (EST)
Deal Hudson--formerly of the conservative Catholic Crisis magazine--used his InsideCatholic blog to denounce two Catholic political interest groups lobbying for health care reform: Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good and Catholics United, although he calls them "fake" Catholic groups.
Hudson appoints himself the arbiter of what is...
Posted June 11, 2010 | 15:28:09 (EST)