Right As Usual

I've decided that it's important to affirm what is special about being a Christian, rather than a Muslim. In that spirit, I've decided to set aside 1 day a week to indulge in eating the OTHER WHITE MEAT - PORK! I'm thinking of making it Tuesday or Wednesday - any preferences? Email me with suggestions. I have some hot sausage in the freezer - I better take it out. Maybe I'll make Dirty Rice - that makes a great day-after lunch, as well. Tags = [tagname]

I found this link on my girl MaxedOutMama's blog . As usual, The Anchoress is stunningly profound. It's long, but worth every savory bite. The Anchoress replies to a Wall Street Journal post of Peggy Noonan. we must do something else, if we are to stave off the Painless Coup. We are going to have to turn away from our distractions - the television, the radio, the magazines, the talkshows, the films, the fashions, the escapist entertainment, even the internet. We will have to turn away from these empty things - to make them smaller in our lives, where they and the popular culture now loom so large - and we are going to have to get quiet. A good musician knows that music is not created only by playing notes, but by understanding the spaces between the notes, and their value. Just so, it will not be enough to simply repeat what is true - if that is all we do, it will only add to the din - there must also be silence, in which to do our other, more powerful work. It is a cacoph...

Lisa, another SC blogger, of Organized Chaos , posted something we all need to remember: i hate giving democrats advice. there's always a slight chance they might take it. Tags = Blogging

When I was reading this, I laughed out loud, which is a strange thing to do when you live alone. Well, actually, it's not a big deal unless you see it in a movie or on TV, where there the action is used to establish that the person is a whackjob. Which, of course, I'm not. What made me laugh: 2. Bat: The bat is the piece of wood with which a batter tries to hit the ball. The bat is usually hewn from Canadian maple or Kentucky ash and should be a solid piece of wood and should not be hollowed out to contain tennis balls, cork, metal, or any other foreign substance that gives the batter an unfair advantage over the pitcher...okay, I can hear you snickering out there, knock it off. 3. Batter: A man who makes what I make in a year for the amount of time it takes him to adjust his jockstrap, and that's without him trying to hit a ball. If he manages to do this three times out of every ten times attempted, he is a good hitter. This may work in baseball, but if the doctor your be...

I wanted to point out a new guy on the Blogroll - The Liberal Wrong - Wing . I found him when he emailed me; I checked him out, and I thought he deserved a slot. Now, before I become swamped (was going to write unindated, but I wasn't sure of the spelling) with requests to add your blog, let me clarify: I normally find the blogs on the blogroll by myself I HATE spammers that have blogs unrelated to my interest, but send me stuff - don't bother, I'll just block you from commenting or emailing. If I REALLY get ticked off, I'll sign you up for spam myself. I've never done that, but don't get me that steamed. I like to put quirky blogs on the list - but they should be posting about politics, culture, or Catholicism. Need I add, that the politics I'm interested in are generally more conservative? If yours fits those categories, don't be shy. Send me a short email with the link, and I'll check it out. Don't expect an immediate reply - this is a l...

One of my favorites, Ace of Spades , is creating a Blog Family Tree. I added my history to the mix, not because my blog is that significant, but because I wanted to honor my Blogmother, Maripat, who invited me to co-blog on Right We Are! (now defunct - go to the WayBack Machine , and enter http://rightweare.com to see what it looked like). I'd never considered starting a blog, I just read others. But, when she solicited a second helper, I immediately responded - to my surprise, she accepted. Alas, she shut down the site several months later - personal life interfered with keeping it up. But her generousity led to an interesting experience, and, eventually, to starting my own blog. I just checked - my 2 year anniversary is coming up on November 13. I noticed that I've posted over 300 times in that period. That, roughly, works out to 3-4 1-2 times a week for 2 years. I didn't realize that I had that much to say. (When reading those numbers above, I realized my mistake...

I had a rare treat this weekend - I met Amy Welborn and her husband, Michael Dubruiel . They were there as authors of MANY books. I took a picture, but, of course, being the total techno-newbie when it comes to graphics, I lost it. Also forgot to get the two books I bought autographed. As Homer Simpson says, "D'oh!" I've been reading Amy's blog for ages - it was one of the first I found through The St. Blog's Parish webring. She offers commentary on a variety of ethical and moral issues, life in general, and provides a glimpse of what an author's life is like. If you believe her, a lot like yours and mine. But even more hectic. Tags = [tagname]