More equal than others

[Sorry for the lack of posts over the last few days; the end of term has seen me embroiled in a sort of busy-ness that I hadn't really anticipated.] This is a note to certain (not all) atheist/progressive/liberal/etc. ideologues who have in their anguish warned against some sort of impending theocracy in one or both [...]

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Freedom

Three songs that get sung at karaoke a lot round here: and a connection that I noticed, regarding freedom and tradeoffs. “Verdammt, ich lieb dich”, by Matthias Reims – the most popular German song of the last 50 years or so. A very teutonically-honest song about being single again and thinking about one’s ex. The [...]

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Random sketch

Alas, I’m flathunting at the moment, so the picture I wanted to have done this week isn’t done. So this week, instead, I present an outtake from another project – a first draught of a page, in which the stated requirement was simply for a girl to go into a guitar shop and buy a [...]

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For Rob

This post, for whoso stumbleth upon it, is me using the blog as a temporary image-hosting site, and will be taken down soon. Plz no linking; this stuff´ll be available someday anyway (God willing), but the time is not yet ripe, the world is not ready. Click on images for larger versions. (Dialogue change: monk [...]

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Facepalm

I have not hitherto seen fit to pass comment on the Rebecca Black situation, but the urgings of an anxious nation have not fallen on deaf ears. So, then, definitively: Yes, the song is pretty vacuous. Yes, it’s also an interesting indictment of the current state of the industry and perhaps a meta-comment of some [...]

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Plumbing

Having (temporarily) run out of music that it’s meaningful to me to discuss, I post one of my own works, this one concerning toilets. (…this is 48 minutes late for the”posting on wednesdays” thing I signed up for [at least in my timezone], but whatevs dude.) There was originally more here but I wrote it [...]

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Shutter the Churches

Over the last few decades, countless articles and analyses have been written about the vocations crisis, the perceived shortage of priests and religious when compared with the always-increasing number of worldwide, or at least American, Catholics. The narrative always tends to be that, following the Second Vatican Council, something broke down in the Church’s ability [...]

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Murder in the Vatican

I apologize for not bringing this to your attention sooner, but I only just found out about it myself. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in The Hound of the Baskervilles, includes a tantalizing throwaway line pointing to the (unrecorded) adventures of the master detective Sherlock Holmes in Rome, solving mysteries for the Pontiff (presumably Leo XIII, [...]

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Odyssey Dawn

As you’ve likely already heard, yesterday saw the opening of military contact between the forces of a broad UN coalition (including the US, UK, Canada, and France, at least) and the disputed Gaddafi ruling authority in Libya.  This was done in response to the unrelenting threat that the Gaddafi regime poses to the people it [...]

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A Tree

Something from a comic I’m working on.

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