My friend Dale Price is posting again regularly at his blog Dyspeptic Mutterings after something of a hiatus. Go here to have a gander at his blog. Dale has long written some of the sharpest commentary on Saint Blog’s.  I stop in every day looking for blogging topics to steal borrow, and I rejoice that he is writing frequently again.
And here I thought this was a post about the current state of politics.
*rimshot*
Thank you, thank you, I’ll be here all week, tip your waitress….
Incidentally: curse it, I just got my “visit daily” list down by subscribing-via-email for a bunch of sites that offer it, and you point out a worthy blog. -.-
Ha! Your blog Foxfier, Head Noises, is also one where I frequently commit the blogging activity of idea theft!
http://sailorette.blogspot.com/
They say to steal from the best– I guess stealing from those who steal from the best works pretty well, too. (I’d also accuse you of blarney if I wasn’t smiling too hard.)
LOL
“Dyspeptic”: I think I know its meaning.
However, my 678 page Webster’s New World Thesaurus ends the “D” section with “dysentary.”
“Dysentary” surely describes Obama politics. The tragedy is that 54% of the people don’t see it for what it is: copious amounts of excrement produced by the male of the bovine species.
“Stealing” is such a harsh term. I see it as “riding on the shoulders of giants.”
From my (wonderful!) high school English teacher, who really should’ve been in a college: “Stealing from one person is plagiarism. Stealing from many is research.”
Dyspeptic Mutterings is a great name for these days and today … Announcement pending from WH in DC on ” … controception controversy …”
More dysentary.
1. Just because the Sunday sermons are upon us – throw a wrench.
2. It’s for people to think it’s about contraception, and cover up trying to force the Catholic Church to go against its teaching.
3. It’s to keep minds on matters below the belt.
4. It’s to deflect voters from being aware of their Religious Liberty.
5. How about – will the Respect for Rights of Conscience Act (HR 1179 S.1467) be mentioned? or that it’s not about pills etc.?
Dyspeptic about waking hours preparing a contact list/nutshell notes msg. for bulletin insert only to now have to wait for edit possibility.
Thank you kindly, Don!
It’ll be mostly quick hits and links until I get my writing legs back underneath me.
Fair warning to those unfamiliar with me–I can be rather salty with my verbiage. Not often, but it’s there.
For those curious about the picture, it’s part of my sidebar. It is the stunning Byzantine mosaic dome in Santa Maria Assunta, on the island of Torcello in the northern end of the Venetian lagoon. I’ve been there, and no picture does it justice. The foundation stone was laid by the Byzantine exarch (military governor) of Ravenna in 632, but the mosaics date from the 11th Century.
Another fair warning–I’m capable of droning on about Byzantium at exceptional length.
I used to visit Dale’s blog several years ago before he stopped blogging.
On checking his articles, had to chuckle at the post where he call Cardinal Egan a “sack of shit.” 🙂
Then checked the link to find out why – he is dead right – about the sack of shit, I mean.
We could, however, use latin, where it sounds more genteel – stercus tauri
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“Another fair warning–I’m capable of droning on about Byzantium at exceptional length.”
Yet another reason why I love your blog Dale, as Byzantium and its relations with the West have always fascinated me!