Irregular Times Diaries: Unfit Discussion

As the remaining Roman Catholics in the United States wonder why their numbers are declining, they might want to take a look at the name of one of their organizations in Missouri:

Leadership Team of the Sisters of the Most Precious Blood of O’Fallon

Just a thought, but perhaps a name such as this one does not communicate suggest that the Roman Catholic Church remains relevant and reliable very effectively.

The environmental consequences of out of control energy consumption are ballooning, you could say. That’s literally true in this short video, produced for viewers in Victoria, Australia.

Care to keep a few of those black balloons from floating up on your account?

I have to share a secret urge that has yet to be fulfilled. For the last two weeks I have had a burning desire to go to a Town Hall Meeting on health care, and in the middle of a particularly furious debate, stand up and shout, What about Naomi?

PBS of the 1970s, I salute you.

The hotel I’m staying in for my visit to Austin, Texas provides the following note along with a pair of earplugs:

Thank you for choosing the Hilton Garden Inn when staying in Austin the “Live Music Capital of the World.”

While we cannot control the music we would like to provide you with this complimentary amenity to help ensure a good nights rest.

We hope this will make your stay more comfortable.

The thing is that, for as long as I’ve been here, I haven’t heard any loud music outside my hotel window. What I do hear is the sound of highway traffic, droning on, and on, and on. Loud highways seem to be the real sound of Austin.

A solicitation for participation in a documentary on Lily Dale, the Western New York community that continues spiritualist seances and general psychic fair fare, asks,

“Are you at a crossroad in you life and searching for answers?”

You life?

If someone doesn’t have the ordinary sensory powers to detect a typographical error, why should I trust that they have supernatural, extrasensory powers to talk to the dead?