Today is the feast of Corpus Christi, when Roman Catholics and many Anglicans celebrate and give thanks for Christ’s presence with us in the Sacrament of the Altar. The Church of the Advent, the Anglo-Catholic parish in Boston that we attended this past Sunday, is having the full-on Solemn Mass with Procession and Benediction tonight…

Last night at a party I was introduced to local brewer Harpoon‘s India Pale Ale. Yummy! Hoppy without being overwhelming. A robust but clean taste. Good stuff.

That’s what the U.S. should do to the Israelis and Palestinians, says Michael Young in a sensible article at Reason. I’ve long wondered why, of all the many territorial conflicts in the world, it makes sense that the U.S. should expend so many resources trying to resolve this one, much less actively take sides. It…

I’ve justified my persisting “semi”-vegetarianism on the grounds that fish suffer less than birds and mammals and are spared the intense suffering of the factory farm. However, this site argues that fish do indeed suffer in ways comparable to birds and mammals and that commercial fishing and “aquaculture” inflict a great deal of it on…

Pope Makes First Papal Visit to Six Flags and Why Doesn’t My Code Get Its Own Movie? by Samuel F.B. Morse

Even if, like me, you’re against a military confrontation with Iran, it’s still good to be reminded of the brutality of the regime. To wit. (via Tapped). I think it’s important for people who favor a more restrained military policy to think about alternative ways of engaging with human rights abuses. For instance, I remember…

(This post had its origins in some comments at the Crunchy Con blog.) John Derbyshire, National Review‘s paleo-leaning curmudgeon and resident pessimist, has penned a mea culpa of sorts for his support of the war in Iraq. The problem, he thinks, is that the Bush administration has turned what should have been an exercise in…

Eric Miller, a historian and contributor to the New Pantagruel, reviews Rod Dreher’s Crunchy Cons in Books and Culture. While sympathetic to many of Dreher’s conerns, Miller thinks that both liberalism and conservatism have reached their limits and that we need a politics that can speak the language of sacrifice. He looks to the tradition…

Mock me if you must, but I still enjoy the occasional George Will column a great deal. Case in point: this very good piece from last month on the rhetoric of “values voters.” Via.

Interesting article in Sunday’s Boston Globe about the relationship between the Bush administration’s view of executive power during wartime and an “originalist” approach to interpreting the Constitution. Some legal scholars, including the conservative-libertarian Richard Epstein, say that in making its case the administration is neglecting Federalist 69, a crucial document for understanding the framers’ intentions…