Well, I haven’t gone yet, but I will be in another day. And I’m not going fishing, but I am going to hang out on a beach where others do. It’s time for my annual Summer Solstice trip. I’ll be back in a week. I’m not looking forward to all of the email that will be accumulating. But I am looking forward to Boggling instead of blogging and just being somewhere else, somewhere where there’s sea and sand and no one to look after and time to just lie around and read. This time it’s one by Louise Erdrich and a sassy sci-fi saga.
Ah. Looking forward to Maine lobster, Merlot, and magic. Packing up my bell, book, and candle. It is the Solstice on Sunday, after all. And there will be three of us to make it happen.

I guess on one level we can say we’ve come a long way since 1960 when John F. Kennedy had to foreswear that he’d follow the instructions of the Pope in his decisions of governance. Today we have a Protestant born-again who tries to enlist the Pope to intervene in an American election.
The above is from today’s Talking Points Memo that highlights the dark and dirty efforts of our president — not only to further erode our rights as American citizens, but, even more nefarious — to enlist the aid of the Catholic Church to coerce (some) citizen support for that effort.
Well, there’s always Michael Moore, still fighting the good fight. Believing Michael Moore doesn’t require a leap of faith; facts are facts. Unfortunately, I would imagine that many of the people of faith — especially those who have taken the leap onto Bush’s rights-eroding bandwagon — won’t go to see the movie and don’t read Talking Points Memo.