Voting for the 2006 Weblog Awards is open. As a finalist in the Individual Blog category I’m happy to direct your fingers here. Vote in all the categories you read, and you can vote once each 24 hour period. Aylward’s crew hasn’t been able to get all finalists in all 45 categories linked up, yet, so you can check out the rest of the “Individual Blog” finalists below. Dr. Sanity Andrew Sullivan James Lileks Evangelical Outpost Majikthise Riehl World View... Read more
It’s another one of those “happy synchronicity” days. Today’s theme: from nothing comes something, and the depths and mysteries that dwell within that fact. Dick Meyer rarely writes a piece lacking in chewy food-for-thought. A few weeks ago he invited everyone to gnaw on a mildly acidic appetizer wherein he searched for reality in a world full of baloney. Today he serves up the main course, and it’s pretty rich stuff that deserves a slow, appreciative consumption. Meyer is clearly... Read more
It’s not every day a blogger gets ordained. Deo Gratias. Check out the great photos. Congrats to Fr. Al and to his family. Am looking forward to reading Al’s thoughts when he’s ready to write them. Fr. Alvin Kimel gives a blessing to his mother. Read more
Actually, it’s the best definition I’ve ever read. Once again I find myself flabbergasted by a bit of wisdom from a Terry Pratchett book. Actually, from one Terry Prachett book, Carpe Jugulum, which I wrote about here, just the other day. Apparently, I was not the only one taken with the excerpt posted by Julie. Siggy got inspired by it, too (commenting eloquently at Happy Catholic) prompting Julie to send him more, which he posted here. From Carpe Jugulum: “There... Read more
This is really heartbreaking but not unexpected at this point. My heart really goes out to the family. So sad. Mr. Kim left clues hoping to be found. The first rule: stay put and you have a better chance of being found. But no one can fault this man for trying to get help for his family. Donations for the family may be made here. Read more
What? Hamas officials have managed to smuggle more than $66 million in cash through the Rafah border crossing in the past eight months, a member of the Hamas-led government revealed Wednesday. Meanwhile, sources close to the Hamas-led government claimed that Hamas representatives recently held talks with officials from the US Democratic Party at a secret location. The sources told the Bethlehem-based Maan News Agency that Hamas representatives have also been holding secret talks with European government officials, including Britain and... Read more
I know exactly the fella who’ll get this. And he’ll appreciate it, too! I may pick it up for a few nephews, too. Read more
I have always loved St. Nicholas and today is his feastday! In the Orthodox church, Nicholas is especially beloved. I don’t actually do anything special for St. Nicholas Day, except express a heartfelt greeting to the saint, thanking him for his example and then asking him to pray for my kids and that my own heart may be generous, but then I talk to Nicholas often throughout the year, so he knows how much I like him! In the Liturgy... Read more
Hey, thanks for the nomination, folks! To be honest I have been so busy the past few weeks that I wasn’t even thinking about it, hence I did not perform my usual “grovel, wheedle and beg for votes” routine. Seriously, I’m honored and humbled. And I’m in enormously talented company, which is flattering, even though I am the bottom feeder of the group! Check out all of the 2006 Weblogaward finalists here. You’ll find all your favorites, and lots you... Read more
From Julie we get both the wise words and the heavenly-sounding spinach recipe. The wise words actually come from author Terry Pratchett whom, I confess, I often have difficulty reading. But this is brilliant: “Right. Right. That’s people for you. Now if I’d seen him [God], really there, really alive, it’d be in me like a fever. If I thought there was some god who really did care two hoots about people, who watched ’em like a father and cared... Read more
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