Heh. John Hawkins has a post up with 10 reasons why this blog is not succeeding while others do. I try! I don’t feel comfortable networking, but I link out! I try to be interesting and varied – most days I post at least three or four new things. Seems I’m just not all that provocative, and undoubtedly I’m too long-winded. Still – it blows my mind that other people manage to support themselves blogging. This little endeavor nets yer... Read more
:::BUMPED TO TOP – DON’T FORGET TO VOTE!::: Please head over and vote for your favorite Catholic Blogs! There are a lot of categories, a lot of nominees and you only get to vote once, so…think it over! I’ve already headed over there and placed my votes for Happy Catholic, Deacons Bench, Closed Cafeteria, Whispers in the Loggia, the gals at Moniales and others. Having won the “Best Political Blog” category in 2006 and 2007, I’m both a little humbled... Read more
At Inside Catholic, Margaret Cabaniss linked to several videos, ending with Christopher Walken dancing. As a Walken fan, I had to delve a little further into youtube and came up with Walken as a tap-dancin’ pimp, which I’ll let you go discover if you’re inclined, but I also found Kevin Spacey doing an Actor’s Studio interview with James Lipton, and his impressions are great. He’s got the voices and the gestures down pat. Enjoy. Read more
Interesting stuff around the ‘sphere, just for youse: Department of Appreciation: My blogfather Ed Morrissey left behind his Captains Quarter’s Blog, but he’s hit the ground running over at Hot Air, as evidenced here, here, here and here. That last bit is a really excellent analysis of how Hillary Clinton wants to run on her White House “experience” without coming clean about a moment of her time there. But Rich isn’t the only questionable figure in the pardons scandals, and... Read more
A Secular Franciscan friend emailed, thanking me for the Kaddish I linked to here. She wrote: “I’ll use it to accompany me through the rest of Lent (because this one will be very very hard to forget any time soon)”. Within minutes of her email, another friend wrote: “Lent is here with a vengeance.” To both of these I snorted a wry, “tell me about it…I’m having the sort of Lent I prayed I would have because I was too... Read more
Kaddish On the heels of the terrible slaughter of young students in Jerusalem, in our Morning Prayer for Friday, March 7, 2008 (Feast of Perpetua and Felicity, Martyrs) we read: Antiphon 1: Create in me a clean heart and a steadfast spirit renew Psalm 51 Psalm-prayer: Father, he who knew no sin was made sin for us, to save us and restore us to your friendship. Look upon our contrite heart and afflicted spirit and heal our troubled conscience, so... Read more
Yesterday I linked to the trailer for Ben Stein’s upcoming documentary, entitled, “Expelled.” Thanks to my pal Shana today I link you to a trailer that Mark Steyn and others writing on on both sides of the demographic debates might find interesting: a flick called Demographic Winter. Let me say upfront, I think the soundtrack is a bit melodramatic and over-the-top – way too many apocalyptic ahhh’s for my taste – and I am not sure I respond favorably to... Read more
You’ll note there is an ad running in the right hand sidebar for the book Extraordinary Circumstances; The Journey of a Corporate Whistleblower by Cynthia Cooper, who was on of Time Magazine’s people of the year in 2002. From the press release: In June 2002, Cynthia Cooper, Vice President of Internal Audit at WorldCom, made a decision that would reveal the largest fraud in US corporate history. Cooper discovered that WorldCom’s crafty accounting methods turned a $662 million dollar loss... Read more
Leticia at Catholic Media Review links us to this trailer of Ben Stein’s soon-to-be-released documentary, Expelled. One tends to think his warning to scientists and others about the career risks involved in watching the thing may sound like hype and boilerplate, but we’ve already seen how those scientists who disagree with Al Gore about “man-made” global warming are being silenced and discredited, so who knows? We hear often that religion represses science – note the lie that Christians oppose stem... Read more
Fr. Corapi hears his own father’s confession: Read more
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