I thought both debaters helped their candidates a bit tonight, and I will always like Joe Biden, but I will call Palin the winner, first because she had to prove she is not the caricature being developed by the media, and she did that, but also because of the stunning consensus of the Frank Luntz audience in St. Louis, who declared her the hands-down winner and expressed a real connection. When I saw that audience response to Palin I thought:... Read more
Today I have been literally bombarded with emails – so much so that I’ve read barely nothing in the news. One emailed question I got several times today was “are you really praying and fasting? If you are, maybe I will too…” Yes, I am. I’m praying and fasting “that wisdom and light be brought to guide our nation in this election period, and that Thy will be done…” whatever that ends up being. I was a little appalled to... Read more
Why ARE these guys working so closely with the Obama campaign? And why hasn’t the Bush administration perp-walked them the way they did the others? They’re not bad questions. Read more
I never thought I would write a header like that. I despise the insertion of lawyers and courts into election processes, but Al Gore did create the precedent, and after reading this, I’m thinking if the GOP has any brains left (and that is debatable) they’ll start assembling an “army of lawyers” for this election day. And this is why I am fasting, because this election has been co-opted by something dark that has too many tentacles, and too many... Read more
Well, that was an adventure – got almost to the end of the recording and the dog went beserk at the UPS guy. Hence, a re-do. Here is the podcast for Vespers of the day, once again, the psalms speak eloquently of all we’re reading and experiencing elsewhere. Hope they help. If you’re using the breviary, the page directives are included. If you’re still looking for it, morning prayer. Read more
I’ve had several – more than several, actually – emails from both left and right asking me what I think of Gov. Sarah Palin in her performances over the past weeks and what I think will happen at the debate. From the left the missives have been jeering. They remind me a little of Edward G. Robinson saying, “ya, yah, how do you like yer Moses, now?” From the right, I get hand-wringing…”what do you think, will she pull it... Read more
I took a quick turn through the ‘sphere and at my email and saw a lot of frustration from Republicans, who are getting fed up with the double standards that are standard for the media and the left. Yes, it’s there; yes, it’s every day. Yes, Gwen Ifill is a dreadful choice, a Obama-enthralled partisan moderating a debate, and she should be replaced. Go ahead, make the phone calls, make a stink – try to get her replaced. Whoever they... Read more
Sorry to say there are a few small mistakes in this podcast, the most glaring of which is that I said I would provide the page directives and read the small bio of St. Therese in the breviary and then proceeded to accidentally cut all of that out during the edit, also, I am dealing with a sore throat and choked my way through the third psalm…apologies. Here’s the podcast for morning prayer. While this is the feastday of Therese... Read more
Mr. President, as my dog would tell you, don’t be a chump. You gotta pull some of those knives out your back. I know Bush honors and respects the Office of the presidency; I know he doesn’t want to dishonor it. But to my way of thinking, dealing in “good faith” with those two – this Pelosi, this egregious Reid – is now doing dishonor to that office. It’s casting the pearl of the American Presidency before swines. They shove... Read more
Wow, this was kind of a fun Office, tonight, on this feast of the curmudgeonly St. Jerome – the psalms really spoke to the day, even down to the prayer for our legislators in the final intercessions. The podcast is here, and it contains all the page directives for the Breviary. As usual I’m using the breviary shown below; I love the translations, and this is the most commonly used of the breviaries for the Liturgy of the Hours. Tomorrow... Read more
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