in pace requiescat

With sorrow I welcome the news that Gerard Serafin of A Catholic Blog for Lovers has passed away. I really enjoyed his blog, and I regard him (through his writing) as a model for living penitence.

I have to think that without his buddy ONION he had become more and more lonely, and even though it isn't technically supported by the CCC, I hope he and ONION are together in heaven. I sure hope to meet my Girls there.

In paradisum deducant te angeli, Gerald.

Excellent Piece from Rod Dreher

via Amy Welborn, one of my blogmothers.

The piece is here (link requires registration). It's something I've recently experienced at a food blog, of all places, where the bloghostess and many of her readers were hyperventilating at the thought of four more years of George W. Bush.

Ms. Kho showed the true colors of liberal tolerance by banning me from the comments boxes. I don't really think I was out of line, but some people confuse a good argument with rudeness.

How to know you're taking politics too seriously:

You do something like this.

It's time to lighten up, folks! There's another election in less than two years. In fact, if I were a liberal, I'd already be at work figuring out how to sell my ideas to the public.