There’s an old song I’ve heard in barbershop called “Lovely San Diego,” and I wish I could think of the lyrics now. Google searching hasn’t worked, and Greg-the-husband wouldn’t be any help, since he probably only remembers the off-color version of the lyrics that he came up with. (Don’t know why he always does that. […]

Catching up on Ortho-blogs recently, I was struck by how many people are going through things that I think would kill me, like Jim N. and Bec and Alana and Steven and Matt … and I’m probably leaving out some. One of the great advantages of blogging is to find out that you’re not as […]

I just noticed that I passed by the one-year anniversary of the blog without noticing. My first entry was on August 12, 2004, and though it was back on the old “Heterodox-Orthodox” site, I think I still get to count it.
Actually, I did notice that the anniversary was approaching. But I didn’t want to […]

Went to the St. Jo Starbucks again for about the fourth or fifth time, and met up with Phillip of the Fountain Pen again. I first met him and wrote about the strange encounter back here in January. Just as before, he was sitting in the corner and apparently became intrigued by the fact that […]

Hallelujah! The worst of the tidal wave of work that came my way has been bailed out or swum through, so I can do a little catching up with the blogosphere:

Greg-the-Husband sent me a link to a liberal Christian Web-site just because … well because he likes seeing what colors I can turn. But I […]

On the Ortho-convert list, someone posted a transcript of an article that was so crazy that I suspected it of being the kind of hoax that Christians e-mail to each other in perpetuity. But no, this one appears to be real: On July 20, a retired professor named Bob Ferguson proposed on Canadian public radio […]

“We have to be pushing our version of the facts because their version of the facts is very unfactual.”
So said Howard Dean at a fundraiser on Monday. The point of this speech was that the vast, evil GOP has made the poor-but-virtuous DNC hide out in corners and caves of the earth (perhaps only occasionally […]