Nice evening and early morning. I was able to get to bed by 9:00 last night and get up early today. It's a good thing, too. I have two writing deadlines looming, and I need to get jumping. I'm writing on gossip and on sports. I (with exceptions) loathe the former and (with exceptions) love the latter. I should be sufficiently bi-polar by the end of the weekend.
Michael (the second grader, number four, "the hinge" that connects the three oldest with the three youngest, the one that gets lost in the shuffle more than any of the others) has first reconciliation today. The little guy is excited. Every morning this week he has woke up and announced how many more days until his big day. I don't know if he's excited about the sacrament or the fact that he'll have both parents to himself for two hours. Probably both. Please say a brief prayer for the little guy. He wants to be a priest, incidentally (or maybe a professional baseball player or computer game designer--he seems properly waffled on the topic).
My monthly column in The Register is out.
I knew Ms. Roe (Norma McCorvey) is against abortion. Now I read that Ms. Doe is against abortion, too: "The woman at the center of one of the two original abortion cases at the Supreme Court has filed a legal brief asking the nation's top court to uphold a Congressional ban on partial-birth abortions. Sandra Cano, who was the “Mary Doe” of Doe v. Bolton, is joined in the brief by 180 women who had abortions and regret their decision." Surely, this is significant, if nothing else from a symbolic point of view. Significantly, both women said they were tricked/used (my terms) by lawyers trying to expand abortion rights. Jurisprudence requires that there be a real controversy before a judge will rule. The rule is meant to assure that judges act as judges, not legislators (it also helps keep the courts unclogged of pointless lawsuits). These two women can be symbols of the the case or controversy rule, too.
Until next week, enjoy the warm spell I'm told we're getting.
