Rev Fisk has described this life as a waiting room.. Waiting for faith to be sight, waiting to be free from sinning, waiting for our Savior’s return. These posts are contemplations about life from Mad Mondays contributors.
Don’t put away your tin foils hats just yet. If you’ve been listening through the excellent Brief History of Power series about the Cold War, you will know that governments can find it useful to keep a nation on a permanent war footing. Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, a psychiatry professor would agree. He joined the Federalist podcast to discuss how… Read More All emergency, all the time
Is there any stronger evidence of a culture warped by sin than that it celebrates death? A Canadian clothing retailer thought it was a good idea to run a campaign promoting assisted suicide as a beautiful thing. Canada’s progressive government is all-in on Medical Assistance in Dying, giving the green light for killing mentally-ill people who request it. We are in… Read More A future and a hope
Can we all agree that our media complex is a bit of a cesspool? After recent attacks on gay clubs, corporate media scrambled to see whether they could find the definitive piece of evidence to prove that the perpetrator is a product of the ideology of the “other side”. But, as is often the case,… Read More Lies we tell ourselves
You know how it goes.. In the aftermath of a terrible attack, the social media scavengers descend on the posting history of the perpetrator to pin him to one side of politics or the other – See? he was a fascist! He was a hippie! He shopped at Kroger! He owns a Tesla! Your rhetoric… Read More Picking sides
Mashed potato, tomato soup, super glue and priceless art. Warhol? No, just climate alarmists doing their darnedest to disrupt the lives of regular folks, blocking highways and making mischief at galleries. People seem to be getting a little sick of the new form of environmentalist hissy fits. While these activists believe they are “stopping oil” and saving the… Read More Recipe for madness
Emily Oster, an economist who teaches at Brown University, generated a social media storm last week after she suggested it was time for a “pandemic amnesty”. The Atlantic article she wrote argues that because we were all “in the dark”, no one could be expected to have known what was right. “In the face of so much uncertainty, getting… Read More Under the rug
Have you looked around lately and wondered if our civilization is worth saving? Would it really be so bad if barbarian hordes came raging down the Interstate? What would you fight for? For centuries now, conservatives have had the goal of “conserving” things that came before, discerning what is worth keeping and shoring up what it… Read More At ease in Babylon
This week’s edition of Demonic Clown World is brought to you by Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams. When asked why her primary focus has been Roe vs Wade rather than reducing the cost of living for people, Abrams said that having an abortion is connected to household budgets because “having children is why you’re worried about the price… Read More A red wave if you can keep it
In parts of Papua New Guinea, we are told there is a curious salutation: “yumi stori nau!” You and me, story, now. Of course, this isn’t an invitation for the other to regale him with a retelling of The Illiad, but it does tap into the human love of narratives and the power of stories to connect us. It sounds like… Read More A thousand and one stories
It’s almost too gross to contemplate, yet this is where we are. In a bid to be nominated for Congress, a New York politician made a sex tape with a porn star and released it as part of his attention-grabbing campaign. The would-be Congressman says he’s all for “legalizing sex work, and making sexual rights explicit”. We’re… Read More Are we at the bottom yet?
