Daffey Thoughts

This, The House of the Devil , produced by that early wizard of the new technology of moving pictures, Georges Melies in 1896.  They say thi...

By now I'll assume the French riots were not fueled by radical rightwing Nazi sympathizing Trump supporters.  Because most media outlets...

A shoutout to Patricia Heaton's wonderfully bumbling character from The Middle .  But did I see this right: Here is the story .  This is...

Here's a fun link on verbal ticks associated with life and conversations in the Buckeye State.   Yes, we know it's Kroger, Meijer, ...

By now everyone has heard that Pope Leo is going in for surgery .  I think it's appropriate that we pause and pray that all goes well an...

I no longer follow Deacon Greydanus.  For the same reason I no longer bother with Mark Shea and many other of their ilk.  But on my own page...

Part II!  Turns out our second son and daughter-in-law are expecting yet again.  And if medical science is right on the nose, we once more h...

Nor do I think STEM is a vast communist conspiracy.  Nor do I pine for the good old days of Medieval medical treatments and outhouses.  As I...

I'm usually skeptical about this sort of history .  The old 'How hemorrhoids changed history', in terms of the supposed impact t...

Today is my saint day. As a Protestant minister, I had several references to St. Francis displayed prominently in my office.  And before I w...

And seasonal.  I wrote ages ago on the original spooky movies we watched as part of our annual Fall and Halloween viewing.  Most of the mo...

This was from an old 2017 post, as Trump's election unleashed the Left's clear and obvious end game, and it wasn't a need to sto...

So I was giving my two cents over on Facebook the other day.  As a result, I was informed that my views were merely the product of my vile M...

Is best summed up here .  Some woman I've never heard of receives praise and adoration from her fellow sisters and an enthralled audienc...

Of the boys that is.   One thing that became a tradition in our household, at the insistence of our second oldest, was that we refrain from ...

I know the country has erupted over the Lindsay Clancy trial.  I seldom comment on things like trials since I'm not a lawyer, and I'...

On September 11, 2001, a 27-year-old woman called her stepmother from a hijacked plane and said words her family would never forget: ...

A tragic story here in Ohio  that got me to thinking.  God rest that child and her grieving parents.  I don't even like to think about i...

It was just announced that Senior Day for the Ohio State Buckeyes will be on the season opener . Traditionally and barring catastrophic inci...

When you have a chance to watch all of your grandchildren together.  Of course there will likely be a numerical limit to that down the road....