Some "Fatherly" Notes

First let me start off by apologizing I haven't written in so long...since my first post. Alas, I guess I needed to grow a bit before I was ready to plunge into the Blogging world. And I guess I grew enough in the past 18 days to finally take on the responsibility.

Ahh, my father. I'm positive there will be many more posts regarding his antics, but here is just an example of the type of man he is:

Get my father started on Iraq, Bush Doggy Dog, women's rights, ANYTHING, and you will get an earful of his opinions. Don't get me wrong, I love opinions, just not when they are shot at me relentlessly from a man who eats mayonaise off the counter (I'll save that story for later).

So he emails me as well as my brothers Greg and Gus about an accident at a Georgia Six Flags park where a 17 year old kid was decapitated by a Batman ride. Nothing like that kind of news on a Sunday morning, so I respond with a "jeesh, that was morbid" email. My father responded:

Iraq is morbid. We [he and my mom] went to the local Catholic church this morning
[we haven't been to a Catholic church since I was 7]. I absolutely love tha
Pastor. He is about 40 years old (young) and a very devout Catholic. In the
announcements today he said we need to find a way to hasten the collection process
because that is not what Mass is supposed to be about. Bravo!

However, I've found that Churches everywhere tacitly approve whatever their
government says is right.

a shame on humanity

love,

dad


Any of my siblings will attest to the rampages my father gets into; many can be avoided by well-practiced sidling out of the room, but when he talks of politics, there is no escape.

That'll do, Dad. That'll do.