But that’s precisely what makes it so relevant and challenging — for Catholics and non-Catholics alike.

Um, no, not really.

Why should being pro-environment preclude being pro-life? Why can’t Republicans worry about economic inequality, and Democrats consider devolving more power to localities and states? Does opposing the Iraq war mean that you have to endorse an anything-goes approach to bioethics? Does supporting free trade require supporting the death penalty?

Lessee… 1) It doesn’t, but there’s no real connection, 2) Because the Republicans are scumbags serving the rich and powerful, and because the Democrats will if it makes sense, but it often doesn’t, 3) No, of course not, but there’s no real connection, 4) No, of course not, but there’s no real connection.

I guess non sequiturs and wild tangents are what pass for daring, independent thought at the Douthat household. I’m sure Broder, Richard Cohen and Megan McCardle can help him out.

Hard to say if peanut dick gf really needs to get fucked or whether he should just head over to the mens room at Union Station and blow a coupla guys. I think he’s dick deprived and cock addled and got teh mad penis envy ever since Brooks said he got his junk handled by a congressman.

Goddam fucking emotionally stunted in denial fucking douche nozzle twat mouth jerkoff.

Signed,

Chunky Reese Witherspoon

I think he’s dick deprived and cock addled and got teh mad penis envy ever since Brooks said he got his junk handled by a congressman.

Perhaps the finest sentence you have ever penned here, Chunky…er, I mean JD.

Signed,
Guy Waiting for Ross, Standing in Paper Bag in the Far Stall at Rest Stop 7 on the NJ Turnpike

Why should being pro-environment preclude being pro-life? Why can’t Republicans worry about economic inequality, and Democrats consider devolving more power to localities and states? Does opposing the Iraq war mean that you have to endorse an anything-goes approach to bioethics? Does supporting free trade require supporting the death penalty?

He gets paid for writing stuff that wouldn’t cut it in a high school writing class?

Does preferring boxers over briefs preclude approval of the Kyoto Protocol?

Can anyone drink tea instead of coffee and still be for national health care?

Does the fact that Americans honor the pope like a cute little lacey mascot of spirituality mean that they give a hoot what he says unless they already agree with it?

That’s a fine sentence, but I lol’d at this one: “Goddam fucking emotionally stunted in denial fucking douche nozzle twat mouth jerkoff.

I think we can agree that JD is especially talented at framing wingnuttia. Thank goodness there are no standards here at Tbogg’s place. I so enjoy JD’s comments.

Doucheit’s portrait does have that air of superannuated altar boy about it, as if he’s simultaneously daring you to make the usual acolyte/priest jokes and terrified that you’ve heard about that time that he drank a half-pint of communion wine on a dare and ended up puking and passing out in the middle of Mass. I really couldn’t care about his column; one pictures a turncoat Ewok insisting that Pope Palpatine I’s social policies are rilly rilly progressive, guys, hey I’m not kidding.

Does wanking off with my right hand mean I can’t give you the finger with my left?

Does being a massive tool preclude me from simultaneously being the tiniest weenie in the room?

Does being an intellectually-bereft moron forbid me from also being a pompous, arrogant asshat?

If I’m Ross Douthat, then, no.

Whaddaya mean, there are no standards here at Tbogg’s place? We’ve got standards. It’s just that JDM3 sets the bar so high, the rest of us have trouble meeting them. That doesn’t mean we don’t aspire to someday…

Seriously, any commenter who frequents Tbogg’s place is a better writer and thinker than the majority of Upper Wingnuttia’s residents. And we have dogs here.

If the Times had given Douthat a column on religion, that would have been fine with me, because I would never have seen it and no blogger I read would have been likely to cover it.

With an Op-Ed page column, Douthat has a visibility that is entirely unwarranted by his compulsion to yammer on and on about religion. Now, I have to expend a tiny amount of effort to avoid his column, but however tiny that amount, it is still vastly more than Douthat deserves.

As if that weren’t bad enough, I’m forced to expend additional effort to avoid Douthat when bloggers comment on his latest nonsense. Worse still, now I’ve wasted even more time writing this complaint about how much I don’t ever want to read or hear anything by or about Ross Douthat again.

The way things are going I’m may have to give up reading just to avoid Ross Douthat. That doesn’t seem fair.

As soon as the media have finished scanning a Vatican document for references to sex, the debate begins in earnest: Is it good for the left, or for the right? For Democrats, or for Republicans?

Really? When the pope farts does anyone except diehard Catholics give a fuck about it? If so,why? And those conservative Christians that John Boehner sucks up to – don’t the majority of them think that Catholics are Satan’s spawn?

My favorite god news from the past few days was this one about the Canadian PM pocketing the holy wafer when he attended a funeral mass, which led to this bit of pique from Monsignor Brian Henneberry:

“If I were the prime minister, I would at least offer an explanation to say no offence was meant, and then (clarifying) what happened to the consecrated host is in order,” he said. “I would hope the Prime Minister’s Office would have enough respect for the Catholic Church and for faith in general to make clear whatever happened.”
http://telegraphjournal.canada…..cle/722036

“Faith in general?” What the fuck is that? Would the monsignor have the same qualms about the PM committing sacrilege against the Flying Spaghetti Monster by drinking white wine instead of red with Pasta Bolognese? After all, that would be disrespecting “faith in general,” wouldn’t it?

Jeebus, save me from your followers.