The Girl Who Was Saturday

 Hail, all 3.7 readers still receiving notifications for this blog!  This is a bit unusual, but recently someone asked me about guest postin...

This is, in essence, a repost of a comment I made on Facebook during a conversation about pandemic related issues.  It has wider import, how...

I'm always miffed to hear the libertarian-leaning conservatives talk about the problems of feudalism, etc., as if the main issue with me...

This morning I was reading in a Catholic periodical when I encountered an off-handed and unironic reference to Ronald Reagan as a “monster.”...

It is a feature of every organized religion to have seasons of fasting and feasting, mourning and rejoicing; and yet there can scarcely be a...

There’s a new phrase on the block—well, new as of the past few years.   (Whoever said this blog kept up with an instantaneous news cycle?)  ...

 It's been entertaining seeing progressives and conservatives battle over the term "equity" in recent weeks.  As used by progr...

Don't get me wrong.  I enjoy Radiolab.  It's an interesting podcast (though to be fair, I haven't listened much in years).  That...

It's striking that after the revolutionary beatitudes, Our Lord sums up with some reactionary-sounding language, almost as if he wants t...

Part of my Lent entails going back to the New Testament, and since Matthew practically leads with the Sermon on the Mount, I’m already readi...

One of the highlights of the Platonic dialogues is the Socratic distinction (in the Meno ) between right opinion and knowledge.  It’s easy t...

But the choice to be friends is not the antidote to tribalism; it can, of course, be implicated in tribalism as well.  When we become friend...

My kids love the books “Bread and Jam for Francis” and “A Bargain for Francis”—part of a series about a young female badger and her humanoid...

It's entertaining, in ordinary times (not to be confused with "Ordinary Time") to listen to the Ash Wednesday Gospel, where Ou...

The Romney plan has been critiqued by (if memory serves) AEI, and Romney's fellow senator Mike Lee, but praised by Lyman Stone.  The rea...

 N.B. The title of this post is the one I originally gave the piece, and not the one the editor chose for it (see link).  As all writers kno...

These days my children have become fascinated by Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance .  This follows a previous fascination w...

Or, a cadenza on section 230.   One of my other friends commented on the original series post to the effect that section 230 (specifically...

But that brings back the first point: why should anyone care whether I, or anyone else, has a voice on social media at all?   As my friend p...

A friend remarked on the last post ( The Girl Who Was Saturday: An Immodest Proposal Regarding the Regulation of Social Networks Qua Public ...

 Monsignor at Mass yesterday told an entertaining story: while he was in Rome, he was nearly involved in a vehicular collision in a narrow a...

It is not every day that a new poetry collection is published — the bar is high enough, in the contracting publishing world, for nonfiction ...

I realize that yesterday I did something that drives me crazy when other writers do it: namely, I dug into the overly simple solutions that ...

I’ve been thinking about this NY Times piece on Josh Hawley (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/11/opinion/josh-hawley-religion-democracy.html?...

Once again the prospect of regulating Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Instagram, et al. is being floated.   Are the companies best regarded as p...

Branagh's Cinderella (2015) was underrated at the time, and I have not rewatched it yet; but I suspect strongly that it holds up well to...

But let me take that up a notch.  I think in a deeper sense, the semi-pros in that  Princess Ida  production aren't actually doing what ...