Featured Blog of the Week: Bogus Gold

Yes! Yes, YES! I KNOW I said I was staying off the blog today – and I’ve been pretty good, all things considered. As I explained to Tattling Bernard it’s the email that keeps drawing me back…I’m reading and the thought pops into my head: “I wonder if I have email!”

I’m vacuuming and in the whirr of the machine I hear, “wwwwwhhhhheeeeres the email?”

I’m taking chicken out of the freezer, to defrost and its parchment color reminds me of my blog and the whisper comes…”you should check your email…”

It’s insideous, the allure of the email.

But…when I came online the one thing I did remember is that I had forgotten to name this week’s featured blog!

Here’s the boy! Doug at Bogus Gold is both funny and fearless, completely unafraid to disagree with conservatives or liberals alike. He’s a lucid writer, a thoughtful Christian and he finds the darndest internet personality tests I’ve ever seen. Today he has posted a sensible and scathing takedown of the Star Tribune’s assertion that “God Bless America” is an “arrogant declaration.” Good for Doug. (An out-of-nowhere thought: I’ve often heard Bill Clinton end a speech with God Bless America…has anyone ever heard Hillary do it?)

Doug is also disagreeing with Brenden Miniter about the desirability of Jeb Bush as successor to his brother. Go read Doug – you’ll like!

Also, real quickly, because I really DO want to get offline and stay there for the rest of the day (I know, it sounds pretty empty, but the spirit and the flesh are at war!) do go check out Betsy Newmark today – she’s blogging up a storm and it’s all good. Also check out these two very compelling blogposts re Mrs. Sheehan.

Also, here is a good John Allen piece from National Catholic Reporter which goes a long way toward clarifying a Cardinal’s recent pronouncements about Darwinsim and ID, and also quotes some Evangelicals who call Benedict XVI the first “Protestant Pope!”

But before you do any of that, go visit Doug’s site, and I apologize to him for sneaking a few other links into this post! :-)

Okay. Really. As Buster would say, I am outta here!