Happy Memorial Day. Consistent with past practice, blogging will be light today, since holiday blog traffic is normally very low. * * * * * * * I looked up morning mourning dove on Wikipedia. It appears that they're a very common bird, so the Jack story (see Saturday) isn't a great coincidence, but the timing was still remarkable and none of us have seen a mourning dove in our neighborhood (or, to be more precise, on our court, which consists of six houses). I've been looking a little more as I walk around town, and there are plenty around here. * * * * * * * Kinda interesting, if a bit odd and lacking Catholic understanding: Glenn Beck on Benedict XVI. * * * * * * * Two great H.L. Mencken quotes: (1) “The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” (2) “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
Mencken
