I have finally gotten around to replying to the remarks made to my original “Perplexing” post (link). I have not approved any of the comments for several reasons.  To wit: one was from a Catholic, another made an unfriendly remark about a prominent Catholic.  And while I don’t judge my friends, neither do I facilitate flame wars – not that these two would flame up, necessarily; in fact I think they would be good friends.  I am just done with online conflict.  I am thus pulling the comments into a …

wanted in 2009 – so far
Queensryche – American Soldier (new album from my favorite band evar)
Dan Brown -  The Lost Symbol (next series novel after Da Vinci Code )
California State University, Dominguez Hills – letter of admission to the Humanities MA program

1:11 AM and I’m just now drowsy. Actually,  I was plenty drowsy when I was supposed to be drowsy and going to bed – that just wasn’t really an option.  So I got over that, and spent the next couple of hours blogging a draft reply to my “Perplexing” post from a month or so ago.   It’s taking longer than I had hoped because (a) it’s really tough to care about anything optional since everything at work is like a daily sledgehammer beating (b) I am rightfully held to a …