pope's comments

I love Elie Wiesel and all his books. I do not love the pope, or roman catholicism. Admittedly, the pope’s current batch of comments is better than Pius XII’s criminal attitude during WWII, which amounted to allowing the Germans to do what they would with the Jews as long as they didn’t bother catholics very Continue reading pope's comments

Traffic

Having to wait in your car during rush hour while 3 separate police cars charge through the square with sirens going is no reason to try to make up time by ignoring red lights and trying to run bloggers down on crosswalks. But people do it. I mean, after all, what’s one blogger, more or Continue reading Traffic

reading very old books

Okay, I’m a biblical scholar. Sort of. A beginning one, at least. Hey, I’ve read over 80% of the so-called Old Testament — how many other people can say that? Especially the high and mighty ones who always try to make a holier-than-thou point of being better-than-me? Yeah, thought not. What’s gotten me cranky on Continue reading reading very old books