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Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 02/21/05 05:44:39 PM
Categorized as WorldWideWeb Stuff.

Damned Bloggers

Just who do they think they are?

Somebody named David Shaw writes a column at LAT, yesterday (emphasis in original):

.... Bloggers can be useful. They did a good job, for example, in bringing the Rather/CBS screw-up to public attention. But some bloggers are just self-important ranters who seem to wake up every morning convinced that the entire Free World awaits their opinions on any subject that's popped into their heads since their last fevered post....

Just who the hell do these bloggers think they are!!??!!

Do they think they're newspaper editors?

Or do they even — O the humanity! — think they're newspaper columnists?

The nerve.

See also Ignorance Breeds Arrogance.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 02/21/05 07:37:33 AM
Categorized as Media.

"Stupid Left, Satanic Left"

By Steven Plaut at Moonbat Central:

It is impossible to understand politics in the world today without grasping the fundamental fact that there exist two different Lefts. I propose that the two be referred to by everyone as the Stupid Left and the Satanic Left....

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 02/21/05 07:12:17 AM
Categorized as More Than Blogworthy.

The Eyes of Lynxes and Moles

Ven. Louis of Granada, O.P.

Thanks to Mark for sending this along.

To this multitude of snares and dangers (of the world) is added yet another misery which makes them even greater: the blindness and darkness of worldly persons, which is fittingly symbolized by the darkness recorded in the land of Egypt during the time of Moses (Ex 10:21). So dense was this darkness that for three days no man could see his neighbor nor move out of the place where he was. Such is the darkness which the world suffers, only it is much worse. What greater blindness for so many men to believe as they do and yet to live as they do? What greater blindness than to think so much of men and take so little notice of God? To be so solicitous about the laws of the world and so negligent about the laws of God? To work so energetically for the body, which is but dust, and so little for the soul, which is an image of the divine Majesty? To store up so many riches for this life, which may end tomorrow, and lay aside nothing for the next life, which will endure forever? Knowing for certain that we must die and that the moment of death will determine our state for all eternity, what greater blindness than to live as carelessly as if we were to remain on earth forever? What greater blindness than to forego the heritage of heaven for the satisfaction of a passion; to have such regard for possessions and so little for conscience; to want all one's things to be good but not to worry whether one's life is good? Men have eyes sharper than lynxes for the things of this world but are blinder than moles in regard to the things of heaven. (Summa of the Christian Life, Volume 2, Chapter 2)

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 02/21/05 06:39:08 AM
Categorized as Religious.

Blogging for Terri

A continuing blogburst has been organized to help to save the life of Terri Schindler Schiavo.

See also Blogs for Terri: Join the Fight for Life! and Novena for Michael Schiavo.

Confer.

Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 02/21/05 06:30:30 AM
Categorized as Blogosphere Stuff & Religious & Social/Cultural & Terri Schindler Schiavo.