Tonight is pizza night in out house, and in order avoid getting cheese and pepperoni all over my keyboard, there will be no blogging tonight.
But before I go-
The whole Kinsella thing is just too weird. I will say that if need be, I think we bloggers ought to consider helping in whatever way we can. These guys need to be taken down a notch or three. I can think of good things that might come of it, if it is played well. I can think of people who might like to help. We shall see.
My computer does not appear to have a virus after all. It's just Microsoft being, well, Microsoft. First one of the Windows updates disables Window's search function. I fixed that with a reigstry hack. But I still can't edit, move, or delete icons or image files using Windows itself. Something is weirded out in the explorer shell. None of the patches or anything else I've done has fixed it.
I'm open to suggestions.
Ecce Homo I haven't done a quote from Pope Ratzinger's Introduction to Chistianty in a while and even though I have finished the book there are still one or two passages I want to share, including - perhaps even especially - this one. When I first began to look over what Christianity teaches, to look at the gospel story and to try penetrate why it has been so compelling to so many for so long, this was one of the things that leapt out at me. I was happy to see our Pope confirm it. Expanding on the Apostles Creed where it says "... suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried," Ratzinger writes: The fact that when the perfectly just man appeared he was crucified, delivered up by justice to death, tells us pitilessly who man is: Thou art such, man, that thou canst not bear the just man - that he who simply loves becomes a fool, a scourged criminal, an outcast. Thou art such because, unjust thyself, thou dost always need the injustice of the n...
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