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The Catholic and the Evangelical, faced by a Culture of Death that hates them both without much distinction, have, in the past 30 years, seen many of their quarrels fade in significance before the specter of Mordor, stretching forth its arm to extirpate the Judeo-Christian worldview from our culture. This

As readers in this space may have noticed, I have had a thing or two (or three) to say about the Bush/Cheney program of torture and the enormous lengths of sophistry that spokesoids for the Thing that Used to Be Conservatism have gone to on its behalf. My concerns have basically come down to this:

I’m a big believer in unforeseen catastrophes and the crushed hopes of mice and men. The Titanic sinks and most people say “How could this happen?” I say, “Figures.” I’m the guy who listens for the other shoe to drop, who looks for the downside of Paradise, who keeps his guard up