Internal Monologue

From this Kos diary about the culture wars in America: Thank God we got the criminals, and America got the Puritans! ~ Australian folk saying

Another milestone in our march of stupidity.

Here's Aidan's explanation of why he decided to covenant with the UUs. Welcome!

Before there was Stairway to Heaven or Hotel California or Bohemian Rhapsody (all great songs), there was Pachelbel's Canon in D. I first remember encountering this music in the TV show Cosmos with Carl Sagan . Needless to say, I have bumped into it many times since. I've even put it on a mix CD for my wife, so I'm guilty of spreading it, too. Apparently, a comedian by the name of Rob Paravonian has had enough of that melody and the countless places it turns up. Here's what he has to say (HT: Mad Latinist).

Sarah Robinson at Orcinus champions our cause: ...I realized that my old professors had lived through some golden years that were gone, and would not likely be coming back again. But I was wrong about that. It turns out that the public never did lose its appetite for passionate, compassionate, opinionated, incendiary reporting. Rather, the mainstream media simply refused to feed it anything but corporatized journalistic junk food -- leaving the market wide open for millions of mom-and-pop blogs serving up big platters of home-cooked news with a generous side order of personal flair. So I tell my family's clucking elders this: Why on earth would I want to go hang out with the Kewl Kidz of Beltway High, when I can come here and do the job the way it was done in its best days -- days you yourselves remember -- when there were many papers with many voices, daily re-engaging an opinionated and often contentious conversation about whose dreams, whose priorities, and whose interests wo

This has been around for a while already, but if you haven't seen " Elf Yourself " yet, take a look. Here's baby Quinn, elfed .

James Brown died today . (Photo from here .)