This is going to take more than one blog post, but yes, I did. So the forehead-slaps should fall into 3 cat­e­gories: 1. Who is buy­ing any­thing in these tough times; 2. Phone bank/telemarketing is a dying indus­try; and 3. Don’t you really have enough to do already? We’ll ignore that last one, since it ... more

…in which Donna Reveals that not only did she attend parochial school for 12 years, Not only did she study Latin and attend the State Con­ven­tion of the Junior Clas­si­cal League (!) BUT… she was ter­ri­bly wrong about Twit­ter.  Aigh!  There, I said it. I orig­i­nally named this blog “Because I Won’t Tweet” which was really clever ... more

At least the Pres­i­dent has man­aged to pre­serve reli­gious free­dom for every­one who works for Catholic hos­pi­tals, schools, and uni­ver­si­ties and yet deprive the Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial can­di­dates and their media arm, FoxNews, from their unfounded asser­tion of a “war on Catholi­cism.”  Yet I’m still pretty annoyed at our inabil­ity to pro­vide an effec­tive counter-narrative dur­ing ... more

Whew.  As I type still wait­ing for a House vote on the debt ceil­ing.  Am I going to take a vic­tory lap for cor­rectly say­ing on Mon­day that Boehner did not have the votes?  Nope — it is really too dis­heart­en­ing for words, as we still hur­tle towards chaos. DC loves its sum­mer dra­mas, but ... more