In response to my revealing my utter disinterest in growing the blog much beyond “playful primate” status or getting this Irish mug on camera somewhere, Dirty Harry has written a very funny personal confession (and some nice remarks in between the laughs). But you know, it is a very interesting thing, to consider how others reacted to my being contacted by the BBC. The assumption that everyone made was, “well of COURSE you’d want to be part of that –... Read more
Here is a staggeringly horrifying thought: The Anchoress as Public Figure.Dear God, what a nightmare. Your loyal hostess is way too shy, and you would not appreciate her stammer. All of your illusions would be shattered and you’d think…why she sounds just like Minnie Mouse…on helium.Very bad idea.So when my email contained a very nice note from someone at the BBC asking me if I’d be interested in sharing my thoughts on the Eason Jordan story and the new-found power... Read more
Seems I was trackbacked by a blog called Lucid Moments, and it’s a very entertaining place. I liked this post in particular, because it jumped off of one of my posts and expanded on it, and took it to an entirely new, fun place!…I got this revelation that the blog nation is like a huge superhero action group. Kinda like The Fantastic Four, Team America, the Human League (wait–that was an 80s band), or whatever they were called. You remember... Read more
When my sons were little, we would ask them what they wanted to be when they grew up and they’d say, “a daddy” or “a firefighter” or “an army guy” or (alarmingly) “a writer.” Then one day, one of them, the quiet dreamer – the thoughtful brainiac with terrifyingly high test scores and so many interests that he can’t seem to settle on one – comes to you at age 14 says, “I’m thinking of studying bio-medical engineering…maybe at MIT”... Read more
On Valentine’s day, most women feel pretty lucky if they get some roses, or a box of chocolates. For this Valentine’s, Captain Ed’s wife, Marcia is getting a new pancreas! Well, okay…if that is what she really, really wants… Joking aside, please don’t forget to whisper up a prayer or two for Marcia (and her family) as she undergoes this major transplant. Ed says things look very good! I’ll be bringing their intentions to Adoration, today! Read more
Funnily enough, a friend and I were just talking about her, and remarking at how odd it was for a Marian visionary to live to such a ripe old age. My friend wondered if there was some specific event that was meant to happen before she (and JPII) could finally take their rest. The Iraqi elections? (Shrug) Sr. Lucia, dead at age 97. Perhaps the world is about to get much more “interesting?” Hmmm. A picture of her lying out.... Read more
I have been offline all day. Monday it will be one month since my brother passed, and today our family gathered at the hospice for a memorial service for S, and a reunion of sorts – a very emotional one – with the wonderful nurses and staff who helped us through his last months. I didn’t think I would weep so much. I thought…well, I had convinced myself that I had made great progress in moving forward from the keenest... Read more
Wanna feel good before you turn in? Here, read this story about a woman who is coming out of a 20 year coma. Welcome back, Sarah. What a world. God is good. More here. Kinda makes you think those folks fighting for Terry Schiavo’s life are not so crazy after all, doesn’t it? Hattip: Lucianne.com. Read more
William Boykin on Jay Rosen’s blog “Eason Jordan has just been tire-necklaced by a bloodthirsty group of utopian, bible-thumping knuckledraggers that believe themselves to be bloggers but are really just a streetgang. Time Warner/CNN is spineless if not completely corrupted by its shareholders’ thirst for petro-dollars. It is now clear that all pretenses to journalistic ‘objectivity’ benefit the torturing, gulag-building blood-cult known Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld’s Republican Party.”TIRE NECKLACED? You mean as used to happen to completely innocent black men all-too-recently in South... Read more
I’m glad he resigned – clearly Jordan couldn’t afford to have the tape released, and his lame back-pedalling played and replayed before mass audiences. The timing is kind of lousy, thought. This resignation is the equivalent of a “Friday Night Document Dump…” by Monday, the news will be on to something else, most of the people in the country will not even know what happened, and those bloggers who continue to nag for the tape will be ignored as having... Read more
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