I Understand Being a Partisan, but Jeeze Lousie!

Now I call myself a once and perhaps future democratic political hack as I used to be a labor union lawyer, and on account of that, a registered lobbyist. So I totally get being partisan. But gimme a break . . .

I am not even going to link either site, but there is this wing nut blog I rubberneck, called The Anchoress. Blogger is super Catholic. And even if I was raised that way she's so far off the edge it's like reading an alien's description of the world through their alien filters.

Representative titles of posts: "Carmelite Nuns Wreaths On Sale!" "New Book on Bishops!" "Cathecism is Cool!" You get the picture.

But she also writes about politics. And she posted a link to one of her buddy's post elsewhere taking P. Obama to task for . . . wait. As this is so petty it might blow your socks off . . . the way he pardoned the Turkey! En-croy-able!

Re the source blogger? Well at least she got some good push back in the comments section:

"I won’t be voting for Obama either, for important reasons. But this “classless, ungenerous, ungracious ” sniping over every silly thing is what’s really “adolescent” and “pathetic.”

And: "Wait, so this was actually meant to be taken seriously? You should probably step away from the keyboard for a little while and try to regain a sense of perspective."

Oh and for delicious irony the name of her blog is,"Seasons of Grace." Seems she's fairly graceless to me. But hey. It's hard to live up to the example of Christ, and be a minion in the GOP, party of selfishness, hate, and petty meanness. Helps if one is immune to cognitive dissonance, and blind to hypocritical self irony.

Catholic Church Lady Swings and Misses.

The blogger I refer to as Catholic Church Lady often is so unintelligible to me she might as well be speaking Attic Greek. Part of that (never mind growing up Catholic) is that the entire phenomenon of faith, of religious belief is alien to me. In fact, way my mind spun it yesterday, is that I want the provably true answers. I don't want convenient answers that objectively are nothing more than (often ignorant) guesses. Anyway . . .

Today on her blog, she got on the more pedestrian matters of social and cultural shit, as demonstrated by her comparison of the (she JUST HAD to add in faith based jargon) the "Prophetic" book "A Confederacy of Dunces." Go Here for That.

Here is how she took a swing, and missed. She goes of about how the protagonist resembles too many current denizens of the USA. But chalks that up to urbanism and culture, and politics. And after that she vamps and remarks that the protagonist, if a character on "The Simpsons," would make a perfect brother for the comic book store nerd. Oddly enough, even if she picked up on politics, she missed the fact that the description of Ignatius, the protag, greatly resembled far far more so, the typical Wing Nut Tea Bagger, than any other "type" running around the USA these days.

Now the book is at least 20 years old, to my mind. If you want to use the word prophetic. Knock your self out. However I find it disturbingly humorous (if not predictable itself) that the right wing religious person looked at (an essay about) the book, skipped past the mirror and concluded, hey. That character reminds me of the comic book guy in "The Simpsons." All that mediation, and self evaluation, and not a lick of self awareness. But I should not be shocked. As opposed to Catholic Church Lady, I think a large amount of the disconnectedness that pervades society is directly related to right wing religion. Few things by default drive people apart like religion does.

And let's face it. Particularly those mega churches, but churches are a Reality TV version of community, often. It might seem to be authentic and genuine, but it really is only a placebo. And sometimes it's a damaging form of community. Where's the bright line between a cult or a legit church? Is there that much of a difference?