Educating Targets and Educating Priests

Nate Wildermuth updates us on Fr. Z.'s waxing over a warship — “Gorgeous” Lies. I see nothing wrong with saying a ship has "gorgeous lines" or is "graceful," but saying "her huge turrets educated Iraqi targets" crosses a certain line, I'd say.

The good father committed no sin in his remarks, but if feels the need for penance, I might humbly suggest reading the latest from "The Sage of Batavia" — Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism. Tough talk is fun and even necessary in this age of almost universal effeminacy, but I can think of nothing tougher and more truly manly than "Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism."