The Scratching Post

 On Sunday night, we went to see Jackson Browne, 75, in concert in San Francisco. He was playing a tribute concert for some folk artist alon...

If I was Melania, I'd be filing for divorce right now while there's still some assets left to divide. Commenter Martin said this on ...

Now that the Republicans have decided to lose the 2024 presidential election by nominating a malignant narcissist, it's time to ponder j...

I've been playing with surrealist and playful images on ChatGPT recently. Working on hipster cats at a coffee shop, I got this one that ...

When I was a kid, we used to play with little, green and gray plastic army men. The green were the Americans and the gray were the Germans. ...

Gavin Newsom took his first solid steps towards becoming president last night as the Republicans' brains fell out of their heads when th...

 I spent the day helping middle son kitten with some handyman tasks and before that, I haven't had the time to blog, but I just wanted t...

 ... or at least that's what one would hope. After all, they've evicted the children out of a school to make room for illegals. Just...

So Claudine Gay, that prose-larcenous, racist mediocrity, has resigned as president of Harvard. She still works there, receiving 900,000 sma...

 Yesterday, I donated the Time Eater to Father Joe's. I've owned that car since 1985. I bought it because I barely knew how to chang...

Why do you Catholics have all those stupid rules? Why are you so set on telling everyone what is right and what is wrong? This is why. A goo...

Hint: It's not the LGBTQWERTY crew. Reading this essay  about what Tik Tok is doing to young women made me realize that the progressive ...

The Catholic Church in Africa and eastern Europe is in open revolt against the pope who is all about listening and being inclusive, especial...

I'm just wondering, if two gay dudes can come up to a priest for a couple's blessing where the priest can be certain that within 48 ...

 Merry Christmas, all. I hope you and yours are having a lovely holiday season.

Pope Francis didn't recognize the implicit tradeoffs in  Fiducia supplicans  and thus started a world war within the Church. More impor...

 ... Church factions mobilize for war. I couldn't help generating a fake newspaper for the occasion. The Jesuits are calling up their re...

 And the hits just keep on coming from Pope Francis'  Fiducia Supplicans which allows priests to bless inflatable sex dolls or somethin...

Yesterday, the Colorado Supreme Court decided that they didn't like Donald Trump so he wasn't allowed to run for president in Colora...

I needed to get this one down in electronic prose so here we go. Plenty of Catholics I know talk about variations on the theme of "radi...