From the "Can you even believe this?" Dep't: Overheard on radio:
"You won't believe what happened at my wedding. My husband's soccer buddy shined a laser-pointer at us the whole time we were saying our vows... My mother was furious."That's got to be one of the most ridiculously thoughtless things I've heard of in awhile. She said that to this day, ten years later, he's never apologized.
Jim at Bethune Catholic has a good post on movies and love stories.
Jonah Goldberg on politics:
"When Barack Obama is on the stump, his whole point is that if we can just be unified, public policy issues don't really matter, what really matters is unity — that sort of thing. There's also a sort of contempt for Democratic values that also comes out of this unity thing...People only say we need to move beyond ideology, we need to put partisanship aside, or the time for discussion is over, when they want to tell you to shut up and get with their program. That is a fundamentally undemocratic, quasi-fascistic way of talking about politics."
Government bailout of the mortgage crisis?: "Recessions and depressions happen when spending gets way out ahead of income, and when people fail to recognize risk because of the seduction of greed."
Funny, I hadn't even heard of him After seeing that Sancta Sanctis get (unsurprisingly) Tertullian, I got:
You’re St. Melito of Sardis!
You have a great love of history and liturgy. You’re attached to the traditions of the ancients, yet you recognize that the old world — great as it was — is passing away. You are loyal to the customs of your family, though you do not hesitate to call family members to account for their sins.
Find out which Church Father you are at The Way of the Fathers!
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