Monday Moanin' Eudemon

Slow moving Monday. For some reason, I was absolutely exhausted all day yesterday, and it has carried over today. I'm hoping to snap out of it shortly, but until then, just a few things:

It's not too often you applaud an Anglican bishop, unless maybe you're at a gay pride parade, but I applauded this:

A senior Anglican bishop has accused many Muslims of being guilty of double standards in their view of the world.

The Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, told the Sunday Times some had a "dual psychology" in which they sought "victimhood and domination". . . . Mr Nazir-Ali argued it would never be possible to satisfy all of the demands made by Muslims because "their complaint often boils down to the position that it is always right to intervene when Muslims are victims... and always wrong when Muslims are the oppressors or terrorists".

It's a saner, though less colorful, approach to the Muslim problem than this: A retired priest committed suicide by setting himself on fire in a German monastery in protest at the spread of Islam and the Protestant Church's inability to contain it.

In case you missed it: The average American household has more TVs in it than people . . . A study by Nielsen Media Research has revealed that in the typical US home there are 2.73 television sets and 2.55 people. That's not the case at the Scheske house. We're above average in both categories: four TVs and nine people. No TVs in any of the kids' bedroom, though my parents gave me one for my bedroom as a form of birth control.

And finally, a quick hit from Joseph Epstein:

A story is told about two women, one of whom reports to the other that a particularly dull newspaper columnist is supposed to marry a famous and beautiful actress, causing the second woman to remark, "I suppose I"d rather sleep with him than actually have to read him."

I just wish my wife felt that way.