August, 2006
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Holy Shit, I actually agree with Christopher Hitchens
This piece on the odious Mel Gibson is actually rather good: I also think that the difference between the blood-alcohol levels — and indeed the speed limits — that occasioned the booking are insufficient to explain the expletives (as Gibson has since claimed in a typically self-pitying and verbose statement put out by his publicist). [...]
Priests Without Penises
A friendly reader has asked my opinion on yesterday’s Salon piece about the womenpriests movement in the Catholic Church: The hierarchy insists that the church has a constant tradition of ordaining only men. But what about Junia the apostle and Phoebe the deacon, in the Epistle of St. Paul to Romans? What about those tomb [...]
