• Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: April 26th – April 30th

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  • Blogs Wot I Read - Episcopal - Politics, Schmolitics

    Notoriously Ignored Blog Pfalz Prophets Goes After Bigot Maggie Gallagher

    My friend Pfalz Prophets has been blogging a bit lately on human rights issues for GLTB persons, and this post does not deserve to be notoriously ignored. Disclaimer: I have sung in church with PP, and attest to his musicianship and scholarly chops. I discovered a new hate group the other day, the National Organization for Marriage, thanks to my signing up with the Southern Poverty Law Center. Maggie Gallagher, the chairman of the group, issued a standard press release, to which I responded with this e-mail:”It has come to my attention that you are conducting a nationwide campaign opposing…

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-04-24

    RT @StNickEpiscopal "Palm Sunday weather report: might process outside today, in spite of yesterday's snow flurries!…" Wear wool socks! # RT @StNickEpiscopal "Check St Nick's website for Holy Week service times: http://www.stnicholasepiscopal.org" All are welcome! # .@OTOOLEFAN That was fun, yes. Seems like Breitbart turned apopurplectic at the Madison rally Saturday, too. #Pleasantville # .@lutheranish I so agree. @RepJoeWalsh doesnt represent my interests and Im embarassed my district elected a Tea Party nut. # RT @Suntimes "BREAKING: Rahm Emanuel picks Forrest Claypool to head CTA http://suntm.es/dOQzY4" This actually sounds like a good idea. # Although I'm not a fan of…

  • Clan: McTiVo - Home Improvement

    The Dearth of Blogging

    Who has time to blog? Not me, apparently. I think about potential blog posts all the time, but never at a time when I am both connected to the Internet and able to use it (two very different things, especially given my office’s policies). On the weekends, for months now, I’ve been shirking. Well, ya basta. I’m constantly reading news and blog posts about politics, and shaking my head with dismay at the sheer… blind arrogance exhibited by many Big Name Pundits on both sides. Truth be told, the folks on the conservative side, with a few shining exceptions, all…

  • Episcopal

    Good Friday At Home

    I was at home Friday, having planned ahead for once and asked for the day off for what is typically an extremely slow day. I sang at the Maundy Thursday service, all went very well and it was very moving. I was disappointed that I blew the attack on the first “big” piece that we’ve been working on for months; when it came down to it, I pretty much funked the pitch for some reason, even though I’ve had no problems with it up to now. We’ve got a good choir, and a good choir mistress, although she gets a…

  • Home Improvement - Uncategorical Weirdness

    World Mini-Cooper Raids Spotted in Illinois Nowhere Near Route 66

    As I was battling through hail and rain to get to Holy Moly last night for Good Friday services, I found myself in the middle of a column of highly decorated classic Mini-Coopers, all about half the height of my own car and mighty cute. We all drove along Arlington Heights Road in a pounding rainstorm, and then we all turned left at Landmeier Rd, which is an obscure but wide arterial road that doodles around in the back of Elk Grove Village in an area that’s partly residential, partly a confusing wasteland of commercial business parks and mostly-abandoned rail…

  • Twitter

    Weekly Tweets 2011-04-17

    If you want to piss me off and make me hate you forever, tease me about something I forgot. # Women who don't intend to become pregnant should avoid Jon Kyl. #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement #NotaBadIdea # Jon Kyl will submit himself to an invasive personal search at the airport on your behalf. #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement # Jon Kyl does not believe taxes should support NPR, as the voices in his head are clearly audible for free. #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement # Current GOP Congress leaders usually voted to increase debt limits during Bush admin AND give tax cuts to the riches. http://is.gd/aS52J0 # Jon Kyl voted for…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    Darn it, why couldn’t that nice Michael Steele still be running the RNC (into the ground)

    We were watching Bill Maher the other night and enjoying the slugfest between the former RNC chair, Michael Steele, and Ed Schultz, a sturdy liberal radio/tv talker. It was a sweet, sweet performance: It made me marvel to see Michael Steele think he was going to be taken seriously, when he had done so much to screw up the RNC’s finances during his tenure there. I’m not sure if he was to blame for their financial problems, or if the Republican base simply refused to entrust their money to a black man (sadly, not that hard to imagine). So that…

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Linkdump: April 6th – April 13th

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