my brain…it bleeds

My parents’ small group is over for dinner tonight. My mom and five of her friends sitting around the island in the kitchen, and someone mentions the price of oil.

“We need to pull out of Iraq.”

“We need to develop alternative energy sources.”

“We need to drill in the Arctic!”

“I tell you what we need to do is get rid of the environmentalist lobby.”

The subject was, mercifully, changed pretty quickly.

hate to break it to you

But if you’re trying to have an intelligent discussion about the early church, and you make a statement about the RCC followed by a question to the effect of, “Aren’t the RCC and Orthodox the same thing?”…

…you’re not having an intelligent discussion about the early church.