“I’m getting better…I think I’ll go for a walk! ”
Apologies for being so scarce the past few days. No time, my good readers. No bloody time.
I’m getting back into the normal groove today, and things are settling down a bit. With any luck, I might even write a blog post of substance today. “Might” being the [...]

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From the Wall Street Journal this time:

I don’t want to alarm anybody, but maybe it’s time for Americans to start stockpiling food.
No, this is not a drill.
You’ve seen the TV footage of food riots in parts of the developing world. Yes, they’re a long way away from the U.S. But most foodstuffs operate in a [...]

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I took the day off so we could go visit a potential school for Kiana for the fall, and I wound up with a last-minute assigned presentation that I have to give for my whole company at a staff retreat (no, it’s not Ignatian) on Friday.
This means I will spend the bulk of my day [...]

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A friend passed along this blog post by Dr. Jeff Mirus about Bishop Fellay’s recent comments regarding the unwillingness of the SSPX to reconcile with Rome based solely on Summorum Pontificum.
Having read it through, I’ll admit right at the outset that I am no expert on the quarrel over the interpretation of religious liberty between the SSPX [...]

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I enjoyed some time spent at both Zippy Catholic and Cordelia’s Shoes (Scott Waddell) and have thus added them to the blogroll.
If you think we’re of like mind (or some reasonable compromise thereof) and would care for a link, please let me know. I’d be happy to oblige.

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I always get really intrigued when I see stories about UFOs in the news. Especially when similar-sounding stories start showing up on the same day in Arizona and Florida.
With the preponderance of better cameras, camcorders, and even cell phone video, one would think that some better footage might emerge if these things are as common as people [...]

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We’re not the only ones facing a food crisis. A story I read this morning indicates that Japan is finding its shelves emptied of certain commodities as well:
MARIKO Watanabe admits she could have chosen a better time to take up baking. This week, when the Tokyo housewife visited her local Ito-Yokado supermarket to buy butter [...]

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One of the longest discussion threads in comment box history has been raging at Mark Shea’s place, in a post entitled “A Note from a Faithful Catholic on the Receiving End of New Liturgical Fussbudget Hysteria“.
The entire thing centers around the reactions to the papal Mass at our Washington Nationals stadium here in D.C. [...]

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Today I am finding myself faced with a very difficult situation. My wife went to a doctor last year and asked prior to being treated to have them check to see if the services were covered. She had them check three times – twice over the phone and once in person. After being assured that [...]

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You may recall that I posted something last month about how we couldn’t find any bread flour at our local Sam’s Club. I found it odd, and wondered if it had anything to do with the economic/oil/food crisis we are slip-sliding into, or if it was just a hiccup in the supply chain.
It appears that shortages [...]

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