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April 7, 2008A Peckish Peek-AroundI’m finding myself out of patience with blogging today - maybe I have spring fever. I’m craving a cup of coffee and a walk through a woods - so here’s a quick look at what I’ve been looking at online, and then I think I’ll make myself a large cup of Mystic Monk Dark Roast and I’ll travel-mug it outside: The other day I wrote about Bobby Kennedy, today at Inside Catholic Mark Stricherz writes about the death of the Bobby Kennedy Coalition Also relating slightly to something else I wrote last week, Zoe Romanowsky writes of a pastor who reflects on at the pederasty scandals that so roiled the church and where we have come from there, and William Donohue notes that the spin keeps spinning. Meanwhile Margaret Cabaniss fisks a NY Times piece with How to write about religion and miss the point entirely. Yes, you see I have been having fun wading through the Crisis Magazine/Inside Catholic site - they’ve got some great stuff and their blog is going gangbusters. You’ll enjoy. I particularly liked this article on how some women and children, armed only with “thanks yous” for their priests, have beaten back protesters. At America Magazine, Fr. James Martin wonders whether Pope Benedict Loves America, not the magazine, the Country. I think he does, and I don’t think he’s much fazed by the “maddening diversity.” Europe is post-Christian and incredibly diverse, and Benedict doesn’t seem intimidated by that. America is not yet post-Christian (far from, I think). In non-religious news, I like Instapundit’s beautiful bit of snark here about the Imperial Presidency of George Bush, and how the story changes, when the agenda is different. The more I see of John McCain, the more I like the cut of his jib, and I looooove his new campaign ad, which is so grown up and which appeals to all of our better natures. Classy ad. While it looks like Mooky has surrendered, which is big news, Vodkapundit awaits the new round of Petraeus hearings Oink. Pope Benedict XVI will soon be in America - is this the first time a pope has made it into the doors of the White House? I seem to think perhaps Carter hosted JPII, but I’m not sure; does anyone know? Anyway, Sissy Willis has a terrific round-up on the visit; she gives you all the best links, and Miss Kelly has tickets, so she’ll be giving us some first-hand reporting on it. A contact over at Catholic University of America in DC may be able to give us some direct news or a photo, too. Meanwhile, Glenn Reynolds thankfully keeps us up to date on zombie survival methods. My children have me well-trained, thanks to Max Brooks and his books, but some of you had better get on the ball! Too many of you are not taking the threat seriously enough. You’ll be sorry when the zombies come! http://theanchoressonline.com/2008/04/07/a-peckish-peek-around/trackback/ 11 Responses to “A Peckish Peek-Around” |
April 7th, 2008 at 1:10 pm
Thank you very much for the link to William Donohue’s “Spinning the Pope’s Visit.” As I wrote in his comments:
“Your excellent article should be a must read for anyone who will be ‘covering’ Papa Ratzi’s visit. I have blogged about ‘the Pope who loves cats and Mozart’ early and often and am forever quoting Oriana Fallaci’s striking observation:
“‘When an atheist and a pope think the same things, there must be something true.”
“I have a strong feeling that coverage and analysis by bloggers who have taken the time to get to “know” Benedetto will have a net positive effect on spreading the good word amongst our fellow Americans. My own series of pope blogging posts can be read here.
April 7th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Little known fact about Max Brooks’ books: they can help identity other geeks in a crowd.
I went on a desert camping trip with a church group a few weeks ago; most of the people there were fairly normal so I was feeling a little out of place. I was trying to convince one of the guys that he needed to read World War Z, and across the campground another camper yelled, “Max Brooks is awesome!” It’s a little scary to be in a group of people, and suddenly realize that only two of you know what to do when the zombies come!
April 7th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
[...] The Anchoress liked this article on how some women and children, armed only with “thanks yous” for their priests, have beaten back protesters. [...]
April 7th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
I hear you with the Spring fever bit! Here on Cape Cod it’s cold, damp, and drizzly and has been for three weeks. Here’s how I cope: I listen to Blossom Dearie on my headphones at work. Her rendition of “It Might As Well Be Spring” is enough to make you… I don’t know, do something. It’s lovely. You can listen to a clip on Amazon here. [edited to admit link - admin]
And if you can find her singing “Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most” you’ll just give up on Spring and go back to Winter.
Hang in there, though! Warm weather is on the way… one of these days. It must be true, Algore said so!
April 7th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Trackback didn’t seem to work. Here’s my related post.
“The Holy Father is not interested in public opinion polls”
[edited to admit link - admin]
April 7th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
Thanks for sharing the McCain ad. I hadn’t seen it before. I must admit I began to feel more favourably after finding a short interview with him in the archives of my favourite radio show “Anything Is Possible”.
If anyone is interested, it’s under Feb 2007 in the archives here.
[Edited to admit link - admin]
There are also some other interesting interviews in there, including Fr. John Riccardo and Pastor Harvey Carey (whom I call the “anti-Wright”).
April 7th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
The Pope was in the White House with Jimmy Carter.
April 7th, 2008 at 9:04 pm
Thank you, Scribe, I thought he had.
April 8th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
I listened to some of the proceedings of Paetraeus & Crocker on NPR. I swear it was possible to tell who was a D& who was an R simply by the tone of voices used to ~question~.
I was horrified by the hostility and rudeness of the D’s. How petty to think they ~rule~ over our fine men(& women) protecting us and our interests and talking as if they are beneath and below. Don’t they know that all men are created equal in the USofA?
April 9th, 2008 at 7:38 am
RFK…
Wow. What could have been. I'll never ever forget 1968… via The Anchoress……
April 10th, 2008 at 10:07 am
“If you want to avoid turbulence, you have to stay at home”…
Never one to avoid turbulence if it means gaining access to the cat-food larder, Babe assertively applies the Think System yesterday atop the late-afternoon kitchen counter during the countdown to supper. The visit should be seen and interpreted in the…