Hot on the heels of Dr. Guy's article about changes in the Catholic Church, comes this news from the BBC: Beer mat ads to recruit priests The Church is launching a recruitment campaign that will use beermats in pubs and posters on the London Underground to promote the priesthood. The Catholic/beer connection deepens! I wonder if they promote "Free wine and crunchy snacks for all successful applicants!" It's nice to see they're going after high-quality prospects (or at leas...
In a recent discussion over possible new driver's license requirements, terpfan1980 wondered what people would use for a photo I.D. when most people's photo I.D.'s are their driver's licences. When I got my driver's license many years ago, I used my passport as a photo I.D. (Don't ask me what they use to verify you for the passport, I haven't renewed mine in ages.) But it may be far easier to come up with photo I.D. than you imagine. When I opened my P.O. Box last year, the p...
I'm sitting here watching the Pope's funeral. The mass is over. The choir starts singing, people applaud and cheer. 12 guys walk up, lift the plain cypress coffin and carry it off. John Paul II has left the square. What an exit. Talk about the ultimate curtain call.
It appears Martin Luther will not be attending Pope John Paul II's funeral. I say good for him! They disagreed on so many things. Sure, they had some commonalities like being anti-abortion and finding a trip down the chocolate highway more abominable than a snowman, but so what? Obviously, Marty feels the old dude in the funny hat was just too wrong about too many other issues to pay his respects. And why should he pay his respects? World leader to world leader? Religious man to religio...
Welcome to Marrero, Louisiana, just across the Mississippi from New Orleans. What do you do when you move into an apartment owned by a cop? First, you lie to the sheriff deputy that only you, your daughter, and your three grandkids will live there, but crowd in 15 people. Then you have the electricity turned off while you transfer it into your name. Then you spread candles throughout the house to compensate for the lack of electricity. What would you do if all those candles caught a ma...
I've seen theaftermath of at least one Middle Eastern kidnap-victim beheading. Ididn't search it out. The picture was part of a page I was reading.Once I'd seen it, though, I did take a closer look, and it changed myperception dramatically. For a while weheard about beheadings and watched the tapes of frantic prisonersalmost daily. When we in the West think of beheadings, we have thisimage of a gu...
"Target stores change their corporate policy regarding TheSalvation Army," said the news anchor. "Not so fast," replied the blogger. When Target decided to ban Salvation Army bell-ringers at theirstores, they gave the lame excuse that allowing one charity "wasn'tfair" to other charities. "Allowing these organizations to solicitmeans that Target would also have to permit solicitation byorganizations whose causes or behavior may be unacceptable to ourguests," said a statementon their website...
The Debates I don't get Bush.So many wasted opportunities. So many chances to pick Kerry up anduse him like a mop. At the beginningof the first debate Kerry sounded like he was doing nothing butquoting his TV ads. There wasn't an originally phrased thought comingout of his mouth. I swear, after two answers worth of it I'd havebeen squinting into the distance, then said, "Oh sorry -- SenatorKerry...
One day Mel Gibsonand some other celebrities were discussing their fears aboutnightmare situations with the paparazzi. Hmm, thought Mel, "What agreat revenge film this would make." The result is Paparazzi ,a Mel Gibson produced flick in which a Hollywood action star goesafter the paparazzi who caused a Princess Di-like crash which nearlykills him and his family. My question is whyhasn't this ha...
Linda Ronstadt'sagent, Shelly Schultz, has announced that Ms. Ronstadt will becanceling all her concerts for September but insists this has nothingto do with the controversy over her nightlydedication of the song Desperado to filmmaker MichaelMoore. Instead, they claim, it is so Ms. Ronstadt can spend more timewith her kids. "Linda hascanceled her September schedule to be with her two children...
Localmedia outlets are reporting Linda Ronstadt had a trying timeduring her concert at the Aladdin resort in Las Vegas this weekend. Ms. Ronstadt iscurrently on tour with what was billed (locally, at least) as agreatest hits show. Things got off to a bad start when she announcedup front to the audience that they shouldn't expect to hear her singher hit songs. She then proceed to make insulting c...
In many of therecent "Fahrenheit 9/11" inspired discussions of Michael Moore, ourleft-leaning blogger friends would attempt to defend their pudgyanti-hero by decrying what they considered the right's "journalists"of excess: Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. Again and again anytimesomething was said against Mr. Moore we'd hear, "What about Limbaughand Coulter, huh? Aren't they just as bad? Why don't you talk aboutthem, huh?" ...
So you thinkjournalists are scum, eh? We have no standards? There's nothing wrongwith Michael Moore because he is just doing what we do? (You mightlike to ask Michael Finkel, Jason Blair, Stephen Glass, et al aboutthat one.) I'd just like todisinvite those of you holding such views from ever reading my blogagain. I wouldn't want the scum to sully your perfect little, rosepetal smelling fingers. &n...
Handing Iraq backover to its people early must have thrown a wrench into al Qaeda'splans. They want America in Iraq. Al Qaeda saw Iraqas "a new front" in their Jihad against the West. If they couldn'tsmuggle themselves into America to mass murder Americans they couldeasily caravan their way into Iraq and start taking shots at will. Itwas the perfect opportunity to kill some infidels and get a cra...
Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. Ronald Reagan I cannot addanything to the warts-and-all portrait of Ronald Reagan that willemerge in the days to come as he lays in state and is finally laid torest at his presidentiallibrary in Simi Valley, California, just off the Ronald ReaganFreeway. Many blogs, articles, television shows and d...