In between college football game telecasts this past Saturday, I mindlessly surfed through the web and cable news networks. There on several of these feeds overtalked by outraged news readers and writers at opposite ends of the political spectrum was a woman sitting in the lap of the Lady Justice statue in front of the […]

The number of No votes on US Supreme Court nominees since 1900: Bork (Reagan) 58 Haynesworth (Nixon) 55 Carswell (Nixon) 51 Kavanaugh (Trump) 48 Thomas (GHW Bush) 48 Gorsuch (Trump) 45 Alito (GW Bush) 42 Parker (Hoover) 41 Kagan (Obama) 37 Rehnquist (Reagan) 33 [Chief Justice Vote in ’86] Is there an underlying pattern here? […]

G.K. Chesterton wrote the following a century ago, but it strikes me as relevant to the Kavanaugh hearing that I followed yesterday. “One of those wise old fairy tales, that come from nowhere and flourish everywhere, tells how a man came to own a small magic machine like a coffee-mill, which would grind anything he […]

The lone wolf that plagues the Catholic Church — sexual appetite Power into will, will into appetite; And appetite, a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power Must make perforce a universal prey, And last eat up himself. – Ulysses in Troilus and Cressida, Act 1 Scene 3 For many decades of my […]