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Articles
Star Farce: A Study in How to Ruin a Franchise
I thought the Star Wars franchise, so successful and cinema-transforming in the late seventies and early eighties, was ruined by the three prequels in the early years of this millennium, all of which were...
Nota in Brevis
Senate Passes Euthanasia Law
The Canadian Senate has capitulated, passing into law Bill C-14 legalizing 'Medical Aid in Dying', or, more properly, murder-assisted suicide. It will now be legal, even binding in some jurisdictions we may presume, for...
Articles
Conscience, Love and Law
There is much talk nowadays about conscience, freedom of conscience, good and bad conscience, yet with little awareness, from what I can tell, of what conscience actually is. So, a definition: Conscience is an...
Editor's Corner
Normalizing Deviancy
Well, another evening CBC episode, dedicated this time to the flying of the rainbow flag in various locales, the most controversial being the American embassy in Jamaica, where homosexuality is, shall we say, less...
Articles
Truth in Tragedy
Well, that happened faster than even I thought. Already, there are calls to outlaw any and all 'homopobia' in any speech, writing, discourse or thought. As the narrative goes, the massacre in Orlando is...
Editor's Corner
Orlando Massacre and the Clash of Cultures
As you have likely read already, fifty people have been killed in an attack on an Orlando 'gay' nightclub, with fifty-three more injured, the largest individual mass-killing in U.S. history. The alleged assailant was...
Editor's Corner
Captain America as Cultural Chameleon
Alas for Captain America. I know he is a fictional character, but, even so, he has had a rough time of it of late.
First, and the least of his problems, is the second-to-last film,...
Editor's Corner
The Two Divine Ladies
Today is the feast of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, the patroness of our college here in Barry's Bay, as well as Our Lady of Combermere, the patroness of Madonna House, situated in the...
