Cantors at Catholic mass get out of hand sometimes, like the one at a recent mass I attended who sang well as far as I could tell, but alas, sang too loudly (belting it out), too long (every damn verse of whatever it was), and too often (does the cantor have that many openings usually?).

This one almost stole the show, upstaging the altar happenings, quiet prayerful reflection time, and in general forgetting that she is not the star of the event, but supporting case member.

Beautiful sendup of the once world’s biggest village.

Once also the Village of Churches, now known as Berkeley on the Prairie. (As are other left-leaning villages, towns, and cities, in the Midwest)

About this pizza shop in Indiana, center of a homosexual hate storm:

The owners never refused service to gays. They never claimed they’d refuse service to gays. As [Reason.com writer Matt] Welch notes, they said the opposite — they would and do serve gay customers. What they wouldn’t do if asked is cater a gay wedding because their faith tells them that marriage is sacred and reserved for straight couples.

That “thinking,” politely declining to be conscripted by the state into a ceremony that violates one’s religion, no longer has a place in small-town Indiana according to the town’s own senator, who’s more keen to stay on the good side of the left’s gay-marriage mob than defend constituents guilty of nothing more than giving their opinion to a reporter.

Will It Ever End?

They mostly sat this one out.