i would like to draw your attention to the right-hand column over there...you see it: blogs i like. i am extremely biased, but i happened to find today's post on "barbagazie" extremely funny. if you go, click my link here and then look at the top of the page for the tap entitled "blog." i'm still laughing.
in other news, i voted in the primary election for the democratic candidate for governor & it looks like my man deval patrick will hold a spot on the ticket on nov. 7 alongside the proposal for whether or not grocery stores should be allowed to sell beer & wine (interestingly, this initiative has policiticized my local liquor store--the have a big NO out on their sidewalk already!).
shopping period continues here. have been to about 8 classes and its only day 2. this is both a nightmare and a dream come true!
to continue the tangential nature of this post, i'm also thinking about this pope and islam thing. my friends here are blasting the pope for being kind of short-sited in choosing his antecdote. i read the whole speech (posted @ bbc) & am not sure the intention was at all offensive & am kind of surprised at the extreme reaction. yes, i'm stunned myself: i feel rather sympathetic to the pope. ack! what is the world coming to:)? interestingly, i shopped a class with a guy named francis schussler fiorenza (the husband of elisabeth) who was a student of joseph ratzinger's. he said the text of the lecture is a form used often by ratzinger in the classroom--using a story from a perhaps unrelated or sometimes obscur setting to frame the conversation.
and so the vatican trudges on. sometimes i feel sorry for them & their sense of being other worldly & their lack of ability to be so.
okay, i'm waxing tired here. as with being at the mall, shopping takes it out of me!
peaceout, k.
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