Quick Asides
Was listening to WLW, "the Nation's Station", 50,000 watts out of Cincinnati. And I learned that the game show host Wink Martindale has a "game show room" at his home. He asks guests play board games like Trivial Pursuit so he can moderate.
The mind reels, doesn't it? It's hard not to come to the conclusion that God wanted him to be a game show host. Do those who love their job do so because they're extremely good at it or are are they good at it because they love doing it?
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Listening to David McCullough on Russert's show and he said that many of the key players of the Revolutionary War (such as Thomas Paine) were Quakers who had put aside their pacifism, recognizing that "some wars are worth fighting". Wow. That's not what I thought pacifism was about.
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A progressive Catholic I know was surprised when I told her that Cardinal Ratzinger, back in the '60s, was on the "liberal" wing of the Church. It's almost as if that gave the Pope a bit more credibility in her eyes. Conservatives are given no credit if they've always been conservative because then they are seen as blindly & brainlessly following Church teaching. Of course, on the other side, if you change your mind someone could say "well, they were wrong once, they could be wrong again." It's all about faith.
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I try not to get tangled in apologetics but when the topic comes up and I have a lengthy exchange with someone I think it's God's sneaky way of getting me to pray for that person because afterwards I almost always experience PASD (post-apologetic stress disorder), characterized by "I should've said this!" and "Gosh I sounded self-righteous there!". Also Bishop Sheen's "win an argument, lose a soul" resonates. So I end up praying that God undoes any damage I'd done.
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Picked up some good ol' KFC ('a heart attack in a sack' to quote Tim McGraw) and there was an eager, enthusiastic worker at the window. She was probably a Somali (Columbus has the second largest population of Somalis in the country). Dark-skinned and pretty, she had one obvious flaw: a missing front tooth. She had braces on the rest of them, which suggested this was a work-in-progress and that soon she'd have teeth as good as any American. Is that what Purgatory is like? Getting our teeth fixed while being eager of mien because we're in the anteroom of Heaven?
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