I’m outta here till Tuesday

Me and the Fambly are taking off for some much-needed R&R; in Eastern Washington. We will be visiting Wenatchee (Birthplace of Wenatchee!), as well as checking out Grand Coulee Dam, doing a bit of rock hound fossil hunting, and generally relaxing and goofing off. Please send all praise to my email address. Please send all complaints that I am a panty-waisted ivory tower fantasist who doesn’t understand that real men cowboy up and do the nuclear murdering of innocent men, women and children that needs to be done in war (dammit!) to Jimmy Akin. Be sure and make the treatises describing Church teaching as stupid and impractical really really long. Be sure to make the defense of the deliberate murder of innocent human life as tortured, sophistical and byzantine as you can. Take as long as you need to write your treatise. Don’t write anything anywhere else till you’ve perfected it. And, if possible, spam the whole Catholic community with it when you are done. Everybody needs more spam from crazed ideologues attempting to assert something directly contrary to Church teaching. Also, be sure and question Jimmy’s manhood if he foolishly goes on asserting that “You shall not murder” is basic Church teaching. Questioning somebody’s manhood for their adherence to the fifth commandment is always a winning strategy. Surely, the Church will revise it’s views in response to your reasoned assertion that somebody who opposes the deliberate murder of innocents can only be a pacifist in love with liturgical dance. Clearly, your grasp of the inner workings of Jimmy’s mind (and mine) will dazzle the Church into recanting it’s ivory tower fantasies. After all, people are *going* to murder each other, no matter what the Church says. So it’s obvious that God wills murder.

Or, while I’m gone, folks could simply avoid all this depressing toxicity from the Right Wing party of the Culture of Death and just put beans up their noses. Your call. Toodles!