Coffee Hour

CC takes a break from yelling at caterers to post a few blog reviews

At Across, Beyond, Through Rev Sparker declares that he needs a mission for his blog to keep writing it.

Could someone please give him one, because seriously kids, his blog is good stuff, with well-written and thoughtful posts.

I vote that he write about liberal religion and trends in the denomination, but that plays well to my sympathies.

The latest entries in at Call and Response are about, essentially, the transition from a leisurely life to a useful one. Points well taken, though that transition need not happen all at once and there is time for leisure even in useful lives. Or maybe I’m just rationalizing because I haven’t given up watching Buffy or surfing on the internet.

Chutney’s recent posts about the meaning of apology have hit home to me. A close male friend, an academic, recently pulled the well-known masculine trick of insulting a woman, then claiming she’s oversensitive for being insulted. I’m sure other gender combinations do that, but I’ve only ever seen it man to woman and I’ve seen it a fair amount.

People who can’t apologize fascinate me. I see myself as a massive ball of screwedupedness and can’t imagine going a week without at least saying “Oh, I put that badly. I didn’t mean to say…well…anyway, sorry” at least once.

My experience is that academics are the worst about that. I think graduate school does it to them.

Rick’s Rants offers some hope to people depressed by the election.

CC