Monday morning

Just the thing to start off the week. (I'm becoming a fan of C.G.P. Grey*.)



* except that he's wrong about the "Enlightenment"
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Halfway through Righteous Indignation

Update: I've reworded my post because in the light of day, and with a little help from my friends, I have concluded it contained flippant if not disrespectful language.

I'm currently reading Righteous Indignation by Andrew Breitbart. History, politics, media, Hollywood, nuttiness, sex, culture wars: what's not to like? I'm enjoying the book and learning a lot. In fact due to a sore back and a need for lying down on a heating pad, it can fairly be said that I've spent more time in convivial relaxation with Andrew Breitbart (may he Rest In Peace) in the last week than I have with my husband. But we all know who my real literary non-fiction boyfriend is. When Mr. P saw the book on my bedside table, he said, "How is it?"
I replied, "It's good. But he's not as good a writer as Mark Steyn."
Mr. P (snorting): "Who is?"
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The end of D&P is near

I didn't say it first. But I agree with what Colin has to say over at SCCB.

I got an idea - why not use the money cut-back as the excuse for why D & P needs to get rid of the anti-Catholic staff that has just become such a source of embarrassment to the bishops?

Also checking Fr. de Souza's article, to which Colin links.
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My March columns in The Record

Can both be found here.

Have a Blessed Holy Week.

Update: thanks to Deborah Gyapong for the link. 

Where 'dropping acid' has a whole 'nother meaning

And so, apparently, does the word "friends." Too too sad. 

"No one has claimed the bodies..."

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If only Mark Steyn had been born in Kenya... er... I mean Hawaii

Then he could run for prez. Because he sure knows a thing or two about a thing or two. Here he is holding forth on the boggy swampy fetid mess that is Obamacare. On Hugh Hewitt:

Say what you like about the Tea Act, but it was a couple of pages long, and it was about tea, and that’s all. And that’s the way real laws are.

and OCR:

By contrast, on the Continent, where many constitutions date all the way back to the disco era (Greece, 1975; Portugal, 1976; Spain, 1978), if the establishment wants to invent a new "right" – i.e., yet another intrusion by government – it goes ahead and does so. If it happens to conflict with this year's constitution, they rewrite it. The United States is the only Western nation in which our rulers invoke the Constitution for the purpose of overriding it – or, at any rate, torturing its language beyond repair.

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Oh come now

Like a lot of women, I am partial to shoes. But every girl has her limit--and I'm not referring to the number of pairs (though mine, by any standard, is quite modest). I saw these on Facebook the other day, and had to google for the original. Ugliest shoes. Ever. 

No one in her right mind actually takes "high fashion" seriously, but... seriously? 

It is almost inconceivable that the same mind who created these hideous monstrosities is also responsible for this. 

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Calling on Master Beazly #2

The Lego Boy. I can only get five (maybe 6) of these. Looking for some help here.

Not that Yahoo News is biased or anything...

But calling the completely, perfectly, and absolutely USELESS penny (an inanimate object, mind you) a "victim"? If only unborn babies were pennies! Maybe scores of schoolchildren would rally to save them.

Canada's one cent coin is set to become a victim of the latest Conservative government budget.

Get real. The penny is a byproduct of history, and it's about time. I suppose the Harper government is also responsible for the loss of the ice-hauling industry. Am I a fan of the current Conservative budget? By no means. They only cut the CBC's funding by 11%. I was hoping for something in the neighbourhood of the high 90's. And I'm willing to bet that MPs' pensions (if they are cut at all) won't be cut as deeply as the pensions of federal employees who actually work for a living, like my crop-researcher hubby.

This is an American video, but it explains quite nicely why the penny is so useless. Good riddance at last!

Heading into the weekend

Why not enjoy this rendition of Foggy Mountain Breakdown featuring the late Earl Scruggs, Steve Martin, and some other famous guys...

In honor of our 13th follower

We are exceptionally lucky to have a follower whose blog directs us to this:

 Raining on his parade…
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(On) Crack Reportage

Could this story get any more shaky? Is any of it actually true?

 Sakisheway, however, reiterated the version of events that she had set out in her letter to Toews, paraphrasing what her daughter recalled of Breitkreuz's speech. She asked that her daughter's name not be made public out of concern that she'd be subjected to unwanted attention. She also declined to provide the names of classmates or a teacher who could corroborate her daughter's version of the event.

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 Here, according to Sakisheway, are a few snippets of what, according to her daughter, Breitkreuz told the class: "He said he wanted to get rid of the registry because he thinks everyone should have the right to own a gun. If everyone here in Canada carried a gun, it would be safer for people. (The government) should make it easier to access guns so people can protect themselves.'"

Here, according to some lady, are a few snippets of what, according to her kid, someone might have said but which no one else will attest to, paraphrased, or something, and hey, why isn't anyone buying our newspapers anymore?
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Too busy to blog

Because of music festival. But it's Pundette to the rescue, with her handy "Quoteworthy" sidebar:


If Cardinal Wuerl doesn't have the guts to deny Communion to an agitprop lesbian Buddhist, he should just close up shop and hand the keys to his chancery over to Obama. George Neumayr
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March of the Spambots, chapter 16

Alternate title: "I await your respond."

Oh, I take it all back. Spambots can be fun! This guy/gal/thing made me laugh out loud. Got this message on Facebook (back when I had a very grim-looking middle-aged lady photo as my profile pic). As opposed to the smiling middle aged lady photo I have now.

Berry Will

• Hi pretty!
  
  Am Berry Will by name, I was searching for a date and came across your profile, honestly you look so gorgeous and beautiful and your calm nature caught my interest in you and send you a mail. Because, my career keeps me busy from searching since I lost my wife 5years ago during her second child birth. Though my words on here are few.
  
  It would be my pleasure to have a meaningful relationship with you so we can explore our possibility and share a warm friendship, if you can take time out to read and reply my mail here on face book if you don't mind.
  
  Thanks
  I await your respond
  
  
  
  
  And, of course, he included a photograph. Can't wait to meet you, Berry! (hint: that's a girl name) and start our cyber dating relationship!
  
  
  
  
  

Well, now it's time to say good-bye...

Rest in peace, Earl Scruggs.

This is the reason I know his name.

Take a drive with me.

Anyone here remember the short story "Night Drive", by William F. Jenkins? I have never forgotten it; in fact I searched it out on the web last night from what I remembered of the opening sentence: "Madge was in the act of turning out the living room lights when the telephone rang...." I studied it in junior high school, a period during which I learned to love the short story. We read so many good ones: "The Monkey's Paw" by W.W. Jacobs, "The Season's Dying" by Eugene Ziller, "Leiningen Versus the Ants" by Carl Stephenson, "Lather and Nothing Else" by Hernando Tellez, and Roald Dahl's "The Landlady", just to name a few.

I read "Night Drive" again last night, and even though it doesn't seem quite as much like great literature as it did when I was twelve, it's still a good spine-tingler and really stands the test of time. Read it here, or listen to it here.

(By the way, Forgotten Classics looks like a site worth getting to know, not least because it leads one to Happy Catholic, another blog by the same author. Looks like a place worth visiting!)

Yesterday's internet ramblings took me to a gallery of covers from books written by the talented author of "Night Drive" (under the pen name Murray Leinster). I would love to get my hands on some of these - Mr. B. and I love this kind of sci-fi/fantasy.

We come in pieces.

Made up words right in the title tell you you're in for a good read.

Why didn't five of them come so this wouldn't be so confusing?

They stole the Gravol, too.

...is very useful if you want to get to...

...but unfortunately you may end up on...

DANG!!

And this was before laptops had even been invented.

 Grab a cola and read along with me!
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Mrs. B will agree

Not that she's ever read the books, and neither for that matter, have I. But somehow, we just know. 

I actually cried during that montage.

Ready for my closeup.

As some of you may know, I have recently had laser surgery to remove a mole from my nose. I wouldn't blog about something so personal except for that it has made such a remarkable difference in my appearance that I'm afraid even those who know me won't recognize me next time we meet.  I'm really pleased with the result. It was worth the sting of being scoffed at the by dermatologist because I use baby soap to wash my face, and it has lessened the irritation of having been captive to a sales pitch for their super colossal doubleplusgood sunscreen. So, without further ado, here are photographs of the amazing result:

BEFORE

AFTER

All hail the power of lasers!...and my imagination.
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Well, which is it?

It is very good for women to have the option of being sexually exploited by men, except for when it is very bad for women to have the option of being sexually exploited by men.
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(Wo)Men Without Chests

"Men with breasts," eh? (I thought that had recently been defined as a "woman".)

It is grimly comical how such people cannot comprehend that someone might disagree with them about abortion.  Apparently they cannot grasp that another person of their sex might not think exactly as they do,  so they start spewing nonsense about how those who disagree aren't real women.

I don't think Babette Josephs' opinions make her not a woman. I just think they make her utterly wrong, and her words make her look incredibly foolish.
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