The Anchoress
Sorry so quiet. I meant to get a lot done today, including some writing, some site housekeeping, and the last rosary podcast, but circumstances and some personal and professional business stuff have chewed up the hours and now they are spit back at me, all ughy. It’s almost 5PM and I haven’t even thought about what I’m making for supper.
Speaking of rosary podcasts, if you look to the righthand sidebar, you’ll see a new button – for now it’s between the subscriber feed and the paypal button – that will link you to the three rosary podcasts I’ve already filed. Reader Mark S asked me to make them “easier to find” and I always aim to please!
And you know, the way things are going, we need lots of prayer!
So, lemmee give you a quick linkfest, here, of things I’ve been saving all day to share with you – but first, from the good nuns at Our Lady of the Angels Monastery, a Chesterton quote, I’d read but forgotten:
Call it your Lectio for the day…
Feed Your Spirit: Vanderleun on The Persistence of Sacred Beauty
Hey Ho, Nobody Home: Don Surber takes issue with the photo shoots. But what’s worse? No appointments or bad ones? Coverage is selective, anyway
In an Economic Crisis: it seems weird to not staff the treasury. Unless you really don’t want to, for some reason.
But at least he’s not a cowboy: Difficult? C’mon, our president is no Diva! Is he? Oh, you said airbrush, not hairbrush!
Not good: First Putin told him not to, now France and Germany. Boy, didn’t the left HATE when Bush was this stubborn and set on his own way? And he didn’t listen to other countries? I seem to remember the left really, really hating that. About Bush. They hated these things too. When Bush did them.
Leadership: You’re doin’ it wrong.
The enemy is…the enemy is: “primarily…Jewish neoconservatives!” American ones, too! Yep! That’s the enemy, alright! And they’re attacking Obama via his lousy appointments!
Well, of course they wanted Bush to fail: For crying out loud, they were pretty plain about it. Still ripe in my memory: Ellen Ratner saying to Linda Vestor, “we’ll just have to hope Iraq goes badly so we can take back the White House!” What a charmer. More here on situational patriotism.
Pork: It always did have a fast expiration date. This one smelled pretty early, actually. And here is some selective reporting.
Perpetual Adolescents: they’re 14!. That’s all.
Ugh: Pandering, extraneous and arbitrary. As long as women believe they need special treatment, they will never truly be equal. It’s a mental state. And a spiritual one, too.
Strip mining humanity: To save it. Sort of like killing and economy to save it, too, I guess. Same philosophy? Either way, it’s worth noting that the left and the press mischaracterized Bush’s policy for years. But you already knew that.
I dread the day we start to live like this: horror pictures
What’s two more?: More Lobbyists in the Obama Administration
War is Over: If you want it this way. The courts are in their heyday, it seems.
It’s almost like one of those “deal with the devil” cartoons: You’d think Banks could read fine print.
My Li’l Bro Thom: says they should have hired me. Heh. Low class dance halls are not my speed.
A Giant Yankee Doodle Dandy: Barry Zito and the troops
Are the Churches becoming too feminized?: It’s a good question. But I can remember, as a kid, lots of dads on our block staying away from church until they were forced in.
The Tipping Point: See-saws. Everything does, eventually. Thankfully, people are figuring it out. Now the question is – how do we jump off?
New Site I just Found: I kinda like it.
Let us pause for a bit of beauty and a bit of reassurance about humanity
Technology: even I am awestruck
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