Question of a Perverted Child: What’s the big deal?
Childhood Perversions The first word by which I learned to define myself was “pervert.” From the time I was a toddler, my closest family members…
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The Condom and the Dead Rabbit
a void is a void (is a void a void?) how about avoid? (haha) but seriously, though, is before a beginning the same as after…
First Sunday of September
Solitude governsA day made for contemplation,Made gloomy byThe first overhanging cloudsTo mark the changeWrought by leaving AugustBehind, in the chronologicalDistance… An agitation, born of solitudeGovernsA…
Non Serviam: Some Thoughts on “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man,” by James Joyce
Almost ten years ago now, in the first quarter of my first year of college (at Western Washington University), I went to the Newman Catholic…
The Death of a Professor
Death to Israel’s apologists! Professor Kruger blamed himself for the graffiti sprawled in white spray paint on the bricks of the south wall of Altman…
The Somnolent Critic’s Quick Reviews: Fiction, Jan.-March 17, 2022
The Feast of the Goat (by Mario Vargas Llosa) Year of publication: 2000 (trans. 2001)Print length: 404 pagesPublished by: Picador USA This is the first…
The Somnolent Critic Reviews “God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican,” by Gerald Posner
Year of publication: 2015Print length: 513 pagesPublished by: Simon & Schuster “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.”-Matthew, 6:21 The Roman…
Notes on The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2007) by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt
Quotes and Notes “There is a strong moral case for Israel’s existence and there are good reasons for the United States to be committed to…
Why the Biden Administration Must Improve the EPA
Donald Trump and the Environmental Destruction Agency The Environmental Protection Agency is quite possibly the most important arm of the United States government at present.…
Defending the Seal of Confession
When you tell people of other denominations that you are a practicing Catholic, you often get a response to the effect of: “Well, I could…