Is There Any Hope for the Pope?. More Popeblogging. Yes, yes, I'm late to the game but what can I say? I've been busy. Anywayyyy.....I've never had a nice word for Counterpunch (which I won't link to again) as I think it is a den of moonbattery, idiotarians and ANSWER types for whom I have nothing but loathing. Which is why I found the above article so shocking. Not only was it about the Pope, but it was positive. What is going on? The BBC and Counterpunch both with positive article about the RCC? I swear I think I've awoken in some Bearded Spock universe.
That state of the DE blogosphere
I've been holding off on commenting on the imbroiglio over a posting at DelawareLiberal for Veteran's Day for several reasons. First and foremost is the situation at home (more on that later) but also because I wanted to get some distance from it to be sure I was seeing things clearly. I've been reading DV's stuff since before he joined Jason on his site and I've noticed a change in tone which seems to have accelerated of late. I enjoyed going to the old site because it was one the few places I could engage someone with different ideas than mine without things crashing headlong into Godwin's law within 3 posts. In short, DV acted in good faith and was rather deferential to his visitors which I greatly appreciated. Since pulling the old blog and posting on DelwareLiberal, I've noticed that ground has eroded rather quickly. I've never agreed with anything Jason posted but found him a book end to DelaThought's knee jerk partisan right wingery. Fi...
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