Somebody else is as tired of David Haas and Marty Haugen as I am ... (For those who don't know, they are two "liturgical" musicians; Haas is Catholic and I believe Haugen is Lutheran, though he's extensively used in Catholic Contemporary Masses.) Check out this website:

http://www.mgilleland.com/music/moratorium.htm

I don't mind the inane musical style so much, it's all the banal congregation-centered lyrics ...

I am really upset.

I inherited my parents' house. It's not much of a house; we moved in about 6 months before Mother died and about a year before Dad died. I was sole heir and executrix, so I saw all the papers regarding the house.

I've been getting these bills from the Property Owners Association. At first I paid them, thinking, "Whatever!". Then I got a little stubborn. They don't plow the streets (the City does, and until recently it did a crappy job). They don't plow the sidewalks (each resident is required to keep his/her sidewalk clear). They don't even maintain the silly little asphalt walking paths; most of them are crumbling into the dirt. All we have is a Community Center -- basically the building the contractor used to sell the houses. I never use the Community Center. I'm never home during the day, and nothing happens at night. I've been there to vote, and one other time for the one and only Owners Association meeting I ever attended.

So I stopped paying. Now the Owners Association is suing. If it were just me, I'd fight it over sheer stubbornness, but I suppose my husband will want to pay it to keep peace in the world.

Whatever.

Argh!

The Blogger ate my rant!

I had about three screens full of a good rant about partial-birth abortion, and the Blogger ate it!

Honest, it did ...

Isn't it interesting how the press always makes the Cheney shooting look worse than it is. I mean, I saw the headline "Cheney Victim Has Heart Attack" http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1011097

-- well, that was explaining that the guy the birdshot hit had a heart spasm because one of the pellets hit the heart. Pretty typical, and pretty routine.

And how's this for a headline? "KILLER CHENEY"
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucwb/20060217/cm_ucwb/killercheney;_ylt=A86.I1wxb_ZDoTQBLhb9wxIF;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--


And all this angst about it took 18 hours for the press to be notified ...
1) isn't that what reporters are for -- to go out and GET the story??
2) I wonder how long it took for l'affaire Lewinsky aka the most notorious case of sexual harassment in American history to hit the news wires.
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-ushunt164628781feb16,0,2810136.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print