saying the pledge of allegiance

Very early this morning I received a break-up note from our church’s youth pastor.

On Facebook.

Now, don’t get me wrong. It was a very thoughtful, well-done sort of thing the upshot of which is that he has prayerfully taken another job back in Texas. He’s from Texas and his family is still there.

It’s incredibly disheartening to read. But it is anything but surprising. Skip, at Granite Grok, reports that during a recent confab of Democrats a brief lull ensued after all the exciting stuff wound down. After wondering aloud what Mrs.

I watched last night’s episode of “The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” and it was both funny and touching. The cold open was footage of Craig, during the citizenship ceremony, saying the Pledge of Allegiance (the actual citizenship oath was shown, too, but later in the show). Ferguson revealed that his employer, David Letterman, sent him an assortment of fine aged beef from Lobell’s as a gift to celebrate the occasion (Letterman used to brag on Lobell’s when