Neanderpundit

In the 80’s when I was taking my apprenticeship at Inland, the winters were harsh. If you got to work early enough, you could ride the bus in- the buses were literally cattlecar-like affairs towed by a little semi tractor. Later, though, and you’d have to walk in, and it was a rugged couple miles.

In winter you made damned sure you could ride. The cattle cars were cold but they were enclosed and away from wind. And the wind coming off lake Michigan was brutal.

The worst, though, was the crappers. They were between the vestibule and the locker room, and damn, the wind blew in there and made your nuts retract some, I’ma tell you.

Today I was in a small mill working on a machine for a customer, and asked for the bathroom. Turns out not much has changed.

There was a skim of ice in the toilet. Ice thick enough that even the massive Ogcrap did not faze it. Only flushing finally broke it up and it all went down with a slight tinkling like lemarchand’s box.

Meeeemreeez.

IN other news, Partner’s friends and onetime roomates lost their dog Wally yesterday, poor old bugger. I got to meet Wally while they were moving, and she was already not long for the world, but she had a good heart. God Bless her, I hope she is chasing bunnies with Barkley right now.

On the Vatican, on the reasons Benedict left, etc.

An awful lot of us have known all of this all along, I’m afraid.

Which is why I am quick to point out that Catholics do not choose our “Leaders”, they are chosen for us. The system is precisely feudal and based on royalty, this is why bishops are addressed as “Your Excellency” and cardinals as “Your Eminence”.

We have been extremely lucky that for a good deal of my life we have had benevolent leaders, but that day is over. The painful truth is that an overlarge portion of the clergy is- as Ann Barnhardt calls “Homosexualist Marxist”

Do not forget that there are still a lot of decent clergy. Do not forget that there are still some decent Christians on the planet.

Sadly, I fear that that number is on the order of 50-80,000 actual Christians. I wish I could actually count myself among their number.

The world we allow to exist normalizes perversion, glorifies human sacrifice, and promotes greed. We have earned this world of filth.

Join me, if you will, in praying this simple prayer each night as you go to sleep:

“Lord, make me an instrument of Your Will”

And know that if He chooses to do so, your life as you know it will be ripped to shreds.

I spoke Dog. or at least, understood enough of it to know exactly what he was saying.

it was simple enough, his speech consisted of OH BOY! OH BOY! OH BOY!!!!!!!!

Never was a dog happier to just have you around, never was a dog more excited that you were just there.

it sucks that the last time I saw him, I didn’t know it was the last time, hanging out at the super secret headquarters, watching him splash in his pool. it makes you understand better, that you should be all you can be, whomever you’re with, each time, because each time really could be the last.