Barkings Of An Old Dog

Here’s your hats, what’s your hurry?

So long, farewell, Auf wiedersehen, adieu,
Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu.

Now can we ask that the vacated seats be filled for the purpose intended?

Heck, deep down, don’t we all most of us wish we had a different bishop?

Ormonde Plater, deacon, author, lord of the dance, and distinguished Episcopalian, gets it right in an article called “Impressions from the Week of the Bishops” when he says:

Why are we having all this fuss over gays and lesbians? I don’t understand it. I’ve served for thirty-six years in three parishes, bringing the sacrament to men dying of AIDS, going through my own turmoil, my own sequential growth, from having contempt of gays (as we were taught in our youth, especially in the South), to accepting them as sinners, to welcoming them as normal people. It’s absurd, totally absurd, that so many people, so many who call themselves Christian, are having a fit, throwing themselves into an uproar, over people who are perfectly normal Christians.

A wag of the tail to Ormonde for his grace filled comments on the week the Little Storm hit NO.

This article ” Why Grandpa Says Inappropriate Things” explains a lot about our Dear Brother Bob. From the article:

This lack of inhibition is probably also behind grandpa’s habit of asking you, loudly and in public, how your bowel movements have been or, at your wedding, how you’re doing in the wake of being dumped by your last girlfriend. As von Hippel delicately puts it, “older adults are more likely than younger adults to talk excessively and about topics that are irrelevant to the stream of conversation . . . despite the fact that older and younger adults agree that it is inappropriate to inquire about such issues [such as weight gain and family problems] in public.” That is, they know what’s acceptable conversation, but their frontal lobes can’t stifle their impulses—impulses younger adults have, too, but manage to squelch.

“older adults are more likely than younger adults to talk excessively and about topics that are irrelevant to the stream of conversation”

See, all Bob needs is to be inhibited. Simple…

Can I get an “Amen”, Brothers and Sisters?

How about a “Hallelujah”, my fellow dogs and bitches?

According to the Admiral of Morality:

With only one nay vote, it is difficult to cast the House of Bishops as divided on the issues that were before them.

Whose nay vote was this?

Evolution and Jelly, as posted by Hughman

Science? We don’t need no stinking science! Where do these people get their understanding of what science is? Oy!

Sorry, I’ve sugar coated it a bit.

Quick, somebody do a back of the envelope calculation of what this whole thing cost us… and did I see where the diocese admins are meeting in NYC? How does an old dog tap into that money stream? Now, somebody convince me that we got our money’s worth out of this week in NO.

Kendall Harmon has reported that he has found the absolute last person in the world who is predicting schism! After a streak of finding (on average) 3 people a day for the last 4 years predicting a split, Kendall Harmon this morning reported that he had “Completely run out of people to interview about this”.

The Anglican World is reported to have heaved a collective sigh of relief.

Clumber’s reaction to NO has finally settled upon him:

It’s not that I don’t care, but this minute by minute, live-blogging, “oh, the bishop from Western South Dakota might fart” just bores me to tears.