John Schultz: January 2004 Archives

I used to watch him a bit when I was a wee one. Only problem with this pic is it looks like he was thinking about cooking the bunny up Tuscan style for dinner.

"Kids, does that sound tasty to you? It sure does to me!"

I read the wheels came off Howard Dean on Monday night.

Everyone was talking about his speech, "We're going to New Hampshire! And Nebraska! And Boise! And Constantinople!!! And Paris on a yellow submarine!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Or something like that.

In any case, reading about the primal scream made me think he let out a howl like Schwarzenneger would have in any one of his movies except Kindergarten Cop. Come to think of it he probably screamed at the kids once or twice.

Anyway - I watched the video on the Foxnews.com site and came away thinking, "That's it?" Dean was doing his best demogoguery, which turned out to make him look like a mental patient. It wasn't an action-film scream. It was just silly.

But he was getting egged on by a crowd of Deanies. Perhaps mental patients travel in packs.

It's remarkable how easy it is for the younger generation of Catholics to get giddy about the graying of the post-Vatican II crowd.

I was looking over the comments to RC's post and thinking about how we need to be careful not to cross the line from driving the effort to reverse the liturgical, theological and cultural mayhem of the past century to becoming the invading army that lays waste to people and practices.

"But - they squashed our chant! They smashed the communion rail! They gave us stones instead of bread!"

I know "they" did, and I've experienced how the 60's agenda warped decades of religious education, liturgy, faith and morals. R.E. was all cupcakes and crayons for small kids, and big colorful books about love and happiness for a big kids.

And many of "them" are unrepentant.

Still, we need to work in charity, or else we will become like them.

Diocese's antiabuse program rejected

Why does it take NASA...

...to bring back 3-D Glasses?

(photo from WP)

When peaceful silence lay over all, and the night had run half of her swift course, your all-powerful word, O Lord, leaped down from heaven, from the royal throne. (Wis. 18:14-15)