Miscellaneous Rambling
I received a copy of Merchants in the Temple, which I've started reading. Expect commentary as I plow through. * * * * * * * TDE readers know I enjoy running good jokes from the late night shows, but man, they've been awful lately. How many fat Chris Christie, sleeping Ben Carson, and Donald Trump hair jokes can the comedians make? And I don't even read Colbert. He annoyed the phlegm out of me while at Comedy Central. I can scarcely look at him without disgust. * * * * * * * Yeah, I know. He's Catholic. But of the heterodox sort. * * * * * * * Has anyone noticed, incidentally, that four out of the six late night hosts are Catholic, at least at some level? Conan, Colbert, Fallon, and Kimmel. And I think they're all somewhat serious about it, at least relatively speaking (relative to what passes for religion in Hollywood, not relative to holier places like whorehouses). * * * * * * * For the math impaired: four out of six equals 2/3rds, which makes late night hosts as Catholic as the United States Supreme Court. The two institutions are increasingly indistinguishable. * * * * * * * I did see this good line from Seth Meyers, however: "Marvel has announced a new line of adult bedding printed with comic-book characters like Captain America, the Incredible Hulk, and Iron Man. You can find the bedding in your store's birth-control aisle." * * * * * * * It'd been months since I last checked my site stats and, since I haven't been able to devote much time to blogging this year, I was a bit nervous when I finally got around this weekend to checking it. I'm hovering right around 3,000 unique visitors per month. That's not bad. It's not the 4,000 readers I regularly brought in for years, and it's a far cry from the 10,000 or so that I regularly brought in during the halcyon days of writing my National Catholic Register column, but it's not bad. * * * * * * * And hey, you 3,000: Don't forget to patronize TDE by accessing Amazon from a TDE link. Thanks.
