If you live in the U.S., that is.
According to the complimentary norms for the United States:
Whenever January 1, the solemnity of Mary, Mother of God, or August 15,
the solemnity of the Assumption, or November 1, the solemnity of All
Saints, falls on a Saturday or on a Monday, the precept to attend Mass
is abrogated.
So, unlike last weekend, you don’t gotta make it to two Masses. (Though you are of course welcome to!)
Don’t be!
‘CAUSE HERE’S A GOOD BLOSSARY!
What’s a blossary?
A blogger glossary, of course!
Same thing as a blictionary!
Unfortunately, you won’t find those terms in the one I linked.
‘Cause I just made ’em up.
<wistful sigh>But maybe it’ll be there someday.</wistful sigh>
Okay, New Years is a-comin’, and that means it’s black-eyed pea time.
Y’see, growing up, every year my family would eat black-eyed peas on New Years’ Day for good luck.
Old tradition. I try to keep it up even though I’m out on my own now. (Though I can’t eat much as the peas aren’t low-carb enough, so you can’t go hog wild.)
Apparently, some folk also eat collard greens on New Years.
Don’t know about that.
We ate a lot of collard greens (as well as mustard greens and turnip greens), just don’t remember us eating them on New Years.
Might have to try that this year, though, as greens probably are low-carb.
HERE’S AN ARTICLE ON THE SUBJECT, ALONG WITH COOKING SUGGESTIONS.
(Cowboy hat tip: Southern Appeal.)
Maybe I’ll pull out a bottle of pickled okra out of my cupboard and start a new New Years tradition. As Crow T. Robot says, "There’s no tradition like a new tradition!"
The possible answer may surprise you!
Perhaps Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko should try an "Olestra diet" to rid his body of dioxin.
It wouldn’t be the first time that
the "fake fat" product was used as an emergency agent to flush out
dioxin, one of a group of chlorinated hydrocarbons that are toxic,
lipophilic (attracted to fat) – and persistent in the environment and
animal tissues. About five years ago, two Austrian women suffering from
dioxin poisoning were given olestra snacks, which resulted in removal
of dioxin at 10 times the normal rate, according to some reports.In
an as-yet-unpublished study, researchers at the University of
Cincinnati School of Medicine, along with Trevor Redgrave at the
University of Western Australia, treated a patient with PCB toxicity
over a two-year period with olestra in the form of fat-free Pringles.
The patient’s chloracne disappeared and the PCB level in fat tissue
dropped dramatically.
(Cowboy hat tip: Southern Appeal.
Back in the old days (meaning, before Ronald Reagan), the South was populated with many, many yellow dog Democrats–so named because they would vote for a yellow dog before they would vote for a Republican. For decades, they kept the South realibly (if not infallibly) voting for the Democratic Party.
(Backup link in case that one goes bad.)
If the Dems do hope to ever rebuild themselves as a national party, their hopes in the South may lie in a new breed: the blue dog Democrats.
How about Amazon.Com?
How about Amazon.Com?
The Pertinacious Papist and patriarch of the Magnificent Blossers, Dr. Phil Blosser, has noted the kind of headlines that the pope is getting these days. He gives some examples:
While all press is good press, are these really the kinds of headlines that we should be having about the pope, he wonders?
Why not headlines like these?