Merry Christmas (and 100th post and carol #4)

Merry Christmas!
This is also my 100th post, so I’d like to thank everyone who’s been reading.  To guess from the statistics, I think there may be about two dozen regular readers out there.  Some days, there are many, many more.  I hope y’all have been enjoying it.
Here’s a Christmas card from me.  The kids helped [...]

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Seriously, are we surprised?

During the recently ended presidential campaign, “pro-life” apologists for Sen. Obama insisted that he wasn’t pro-abortion.  “In fact,” they insisted, “he’s actually really pro-life because he’ll work to decrease abortions by improving the economy.  He’s not like those radical pro-abortion groups.”
Yeah, right, and if you believe that, I have a Senate seat to sell you… [...]

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Christmas Carol #3 and Gaudete Sunday

Happy Gaudete Sunday!
“Huh?” many of you are thinking.  Ok, I’ll explain.  Both Lent and (surprise) Advent are penitential seasons, so the color for the liturgical vestments in the Catholic Church is purple.  Since Easter is the most important celebration in the church year, the preparation period (Lent) is longer, forty days (which also has a [...]

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Christmas carol #2

Happy feast of the Immaculate Conception!  In honor of the feast, I offer “The Basque Carol,” also known by its first line, “The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came.”  Yes, properly, the song sort of belongs in March, for the feast of the Annunciation, but that feast obviously relates very closely to Christmas.  The text comes from the [...]

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Christmas carol #1

Sitting through the tambourines at the end of mass (our usual Advent song, “Rise Up, Jerusalem,” involves tambourines… which I guess is slightly better than the bongo drums our previous parish used for, “Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning”), I started thinking of all the really great Advent and Christmas music out there (none of which, [...]

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GO NAVY!

Go Navy!
Navy 34, Army 0
(Glad they can finally beat someone now… our first game as plebes, we lost something like 63 to nothing.  The season was so pathetic and we were so desperate for some good news, we started doing push-ups for first downs, since we never got to do them for actually scoring.  But, hey, [...]

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Short, sweet, and hysterical

Ok, well, at least I thought this was hysterically funny.  I came across it while looking for another of BTW’s quotes and, to take the quote below to heart, I think it gives the blog that je ne sais quoi to spice things up a bit, n’est pas?  And, in lieu of a real post, I offer [...]

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“Post-racial” America my… foot

During the campaign, Senator Obama told us that he represented a new way of doing politics.  (Turns out, that mostly meant that surrogates, especially liberal blogs and liberal media, got to throw the mud harder than ever while the Chosen One feigned shock at their tactics.)
Senator Obama told us that he was the beginning of [...]

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