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Has anyone seen my golden calf?
I was reading Karl Keating’s “The Usual Suspects” and came upon some wisdom. He says he asks the audiences of his talks what was wrong with the Jew melting down their jewelry to make a golden calf? His answer: nothing. It was worshipping the golden calf as a false god that was the problem.
So what have I melted down lately? What are my golden calves? What’s in between me and God? What’s replacing God in my life?
Too bad I’m way to busy to respond to Fr. O’Neal’s weekend homework challenge…

Where’s my cheese grater? I am speechless about this article regarding a U.N.-financed sex education manual used in South America from the Washington Times, a newspaper I can usually read without having a conniption. Apparently the US Agency for International Development (USAID) has funded production of the manual in El Salvador with “very graphic pictures.” 10 year-olds are seeing this.

The UNICEF-funded manual from Mexico, whose title translated into English is “Theoretic Elements for Working With Mothers and Pregnant Teens,” suggests: “Situations in which you can obtain sexual pleasure: 1. Masturbation. 2. Sexual relations with a partner — whether heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual. 3. A sexual response that is directed toward inanimate objects, animals, minors, non-consenting persons.”

Note to self: Check with U.N. personnel office. Find out if Satan is actually on the payroll or if he’s volunteering.

Because stories like this make me want to grate cheese. This is about Judith Levine’s new book “Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sex.”

The antidote was Jonah Goldberg’s NRO column yesterday.

… as Irving Kristol noted long ago, if you believe that a book or a movie can’t hurt people, you also pretty much have to believe a book or a movie can’t help them either.

I wrote this a while ago, and people still seem to be enjoying it. No one is too bourgeois to enjoy opera.

I didn’t know you were allowed to do this in Cuba.