So, it appears Cindy Sheehan has gone and gotten herself arrested while her supporters – proving definatively that they are permanently stuck in 1968 – shouted, “the whole world is watching!” (well, Al Jazeera was, anyway – note they got Sheehan with the “forlorn” expression) Whoopee. The woman, who this weekend kvetched because CNN et al were spending all of their time covering Hurricane Rita, which was “just a little wind and rain,” instead of Herself climbing all over Jesse... Read more
“We are all going to have to rethink how we deal with this, because there are all these competing values … Without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function, what does it mean to have the right to defend your reputation?” she said. Hillary Clinton Continued: “I don’t have any clue about what we’re going to do legally, regulatorily, technologically — I don’t have a clue. But I do think we always have to keep competing interests in balance.... Read more
As a rule I tend to have a knee-jerk prejudice against things that are “by women/for women.” Back in my feminist days I spent a lot of time buying “stuff by women” simply because they were made or written by women, geared toward women. What I too-often found was something pretty mediocre and narrow. Often I would regret my purchase, particularly if it was a book, because I would come away from it feeling like the author, assured of her... Read more
If you have emailed me, please don’t feel ignored because I have not responded. I opened my email today and found…well, a LOT of email. More than I really have time to respond to fairly, today, it being Sunday and with family coming over. So, please don’t feel ignored. If I can, I will try to answer tomorrow! :-) Sometimes I feel like no one is reading me. Then I tick people off, and my email overflows! LOL I am... Read more
Back in June, I wrote that something was happening, that I was sensing it via my email, and through what I was observing in my parish and neighboring parishes, and what Buster was telling me via his job at work: He tells me that the youth group is over-flowing, and that the rectory receives calls “every day” from people looking to return to the Church after decades-long absences, and from those poorly catechised Catholics who suddenly want to learn about... Read more
Ohhhhhh….I knew it. I KNEW it. I knew that if anyone tried to make yet another version of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice after the definitive and superb A&E version starring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, it would come a stinker! And now, Charlotte Allen confirms my worst fears! Not only is there little electricity between the two leads, even when McFadyen makes like Heathcliffe with Knightley out on the moors…but the filmmakers have done it again: They cannot make... Read more
The Army exceeded its recruiting goal for August scoring 102 percent of goal for the month. You have read no news story about this, <a href="http://www.irishpennants.com/archives/2005/09/the_army_exceed.php"because the Army exceeded its recruiting goal for August. Heh. I love that guy. Read more
Two interesting pieces in the NY Times, today, on the Vatican’s inspection of US Seminaries and the so-called “witch hunt” taking place regarding gay seminarians (not, it must be noted, ordained priests). The first is an op-ed piece by Amy Welborn who examines exactly what this inspection – which some are finding so troubling – entails: When you read through the set of questions to be asked of all seminary administrators, faculty and students – the Instrumentum Laboris – you... Read more
What good, good news. Thank God and praise Him from whom all blessings flow! Rita, while powerful, spared Galveston and Houston, and essentially spent most of her fury in “extreme southwest Louisiana, a lightly populated area just east of Sabine Pass, Texas, according to the National Hurricane Center” She is already a simple 50mph Tropical Storm at this writing. Whew! Of course, there was still lots of destruction and downed powerlines, and buildings and homes lost, and more flooding in... Read more
Just got reminded of this and thought I’d share it with you, because it’s pretty funny, and I am having one of those sleepless nights. I had a friend who was also struggling with insomnia. One night she finally went to bed early and got into a really good sleep – but it didn’t last. She called me up in the wee small hours, wide awake and sounding upset. “What woke you up?” I asked. “I had a sex dream... Read more
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