Miscellaneous News

Unlike yours truly, if people actually read your blog, you can make a living on the lecture circuit, as P.Z. Myers realizes. The key is to know how to market yourself and write about things people want to hear.

I never expect to make anything out of this enterprise, and since the election there hasn't been a lot worth writing about of a national nature. I get too pissed off with all of the layoffs and stuff going on. More to the point, I am up in Oregon on "vacation," perhaps looking to move up here permanently, and that is my priority right now.
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There is no stay of execution for Medford's Oakdale Avenue's maple trees, unfortunately.
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Gene Lyons

finds himself agreeing with the troublemaker William A. Donohue of the Catholic League over the "wafergate" nonsense.

Lyons especially agreed with Donohue's statements regarding the Beltway Slut, who Gene Lyons tactifully calls the "successful Monica Lewinsky," more polite than my nickname for her, but an insult to the former White House intern. Donohue didn't like her remarks about taking communion at Tim Russert's funeral service a few weeks ago.

Lyons critiques the blogger who made a big goddamned deal out of the stolen wafer at the University of Central Florida, which the thief returned. When Donohue rightly criticized this blogger, the dumb shit "progressives" in the blogosphere, many of whom are anti-Catholic bigots, went into action by defending this guy. It was stupid to behold. These "progressives" or "militant atheists" became exactly what they criticize others of being.

Here is the original piece. This is an example of a different point of view of Myers' retaliation, which was not just disrespectful but dumb besides.

The wafer incident was all about respect.