The Wednesday Eudemon
Back to a full-blown grind. The office exploded yesterday with work. It was a good feeling. The seven mouths aren't getting any cheaper to feed.
I referenced to the clerihew two days ago. One regular reader and blogger has tried her hand at the craft, using fellow bloggers, and she included me. Clever.
Will Ferrell had a son.. This is the second son, with the same lady, both conceived within the bounds of wedlock, thereby setting off alarms in Hollywood that Ferrell is some sort of reactionary, Fascist, Commie-baiter. Will he ever work in tinsel again?
Soon to make a U.S. News & World Report list of best places to live during a terrorist attack: D.C., San Diego, the Twin Cities, Columbus. These cities have achieved "Most Advanced" crisis management status with the Department of Homeland Security. No word yet regarding the cities least prepared, but I assume the Muslims will post the list in their mosques.
The Feast of Fools. Interesting stuff (via Welborn, via Tucker). Excerpt:
During the Roman Saturnalia all class distinctions were abolished, with slaves and their masters switching roles, and laws that normally governed sensible behavior virtually suspended.
In medieval times, most Europeans adopted the Roman taste for a good time by electing a Lord of Misrule, or King of Fools. This harlequin king went by many names: King of the Bean in England, the Abbot of Unreason in Scotland, the Abbe de la Malgouveme in France. All had the power to call people to disorder. Cross dressing, bawdy songs, drinking to excess, and gambling on the church altar were only a few of the wanton acts reported.
Funny stuff: "CNN apologized Tuesday for mistakenly promoting a story on the search for Osama bin Laden with the headline 'Where's Obama?'" The mistake was inevitable. A SNL skit that plays off the similarity can't be far away.
In case you were in a good mood:
[R]eligious broadcaster Pat Robertson predicted Tuesday that a terrorist attack on the United States would result in "mass killing" late in 2007.
"I'm not necessarily saying it's going to be nuclear," he said during his news-and-talk television show "The 700 Club" on the Christian Broadcasting Network. "The Lord didn't say nuclear. But I do believe it will be something like that."
Robertson said God told him during a recent prayer retreat that major cities and possibly millions of people will be affected by the attack, which should take place sometime after September.
