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I was away for a couple days at my grad school classes. Glad to see you're stopping by. If you're feeling frisky, leave a comment. Your insights often provide fodder for my ridiculously interesting posts. [Which means the fodder goes nowhere.--ed.] Bah! Anyway, I'm thrilled to be taking Christian Anthropology, Prophets, and Catholic Spirituality. For the class on the prophets, sue me, I'll be comparing it to Captain Jack. Well, my teacher is possibly funnier than Captain Jack, (and he used "cranium" in a weird way) but they'd get along great. Well, except that rant about how we're not "people of the Book." On the other hand still, we're going to know the Scriptures as well as anybody. End of story. After all, it's our Bible.

It was great to see Confirmation Sponsor Guy and family at that party. "Incorrigible Papist" is also a correct designation. We were officially there to say goodbye and good luck to Jeff Ryan, who is taking a position as a religion teacher in Minnesota. What I was there to do--officially or otherwise--had very little to do with Jeff, I'm unafraid to say. My timing stinks, but it could still work out. Ahem. Anyway.

I should be writing a paper, and I'll get to it, as soon as I do my best to keep up the ol' page views. I want to write. It makes me happy to write words, to color outside the lines on the coloring book of your lives, for my amusement and yours. If the "Stuff White People Like" guy and the "Stuff Christians Like" guy can get book deals, I should be able to get one, right? Especially since they should be called, "Stuff Liberal White People Like" and "Dumb Stuff White Evangelicals Like," respectively. I digress in a grumpy fashion.

Have I mentioned how much I love Rick Santorum? I mean, honestly. I know that Romney's charge during the primaries that he's an "economic lightweight" is pretty true, and I'd STILL vote for him in under a tenth of a second. I'm not even kidding. Senator, seriously, I would be honored to write speeches for you, sir. Or whatever you needed. He's A) ACTUALLY pro-life, B) ACTUALLY Catholic and Christian, and C) not a Communist. If I'm missing something here, let me know. But we gotta go with this Romney dude. Not only would a standing HHS mandate be an affront to our cherished rights (and God-given ones, at that) but I do believe that it will cost Obama the election. Care to note how many Catholics and evangelicals are in Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin? Do you think that they--and voters worried about the economy--are going to admit to a pollster in August that they're voting against the first black president? I'm telling you, Obama is gonna get destroyed on Election Day. Destroyed. But nobody wants to say it.

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