A Fundamentalist Commenter

I thought it was interesting that Gary Eisele who recently said that Nazism was instigated by the pope and carried out by almost exclusively Catholic henchmen(yeah in Germany) commented on my take on his opinion piece in the Winona Daily News.  I thought it was interesting that these opinion discussions are more and more happening in the blogosphere now instead of the opinion pages in traditional newspapers.  Despite the shortcomings of Mr. Eisele's position which includes quoting Catholic history written by I kid you not Jack Chick, the venue for such discussions is I think much better than that of the traditional newspaper. 

Just for fun

Just for fun I threw together stats for the last month. Of course I had my Z Spike so believe me I don't see numbers like this normally.

Rank	City	State	Visits
1	La Crosse	WI	543
2	Madison	WI	342
3	Milwaukee	WI	260
4	New York	NY	194
5	Chicago	IL	153
6	Minneapolis	MN	128
7	Wausau	WI	120
8	Washington	DC	91
9	Middleton	WI	89
10	Los Angeles	CA	87
11	Dubuque	IA	81
12	La Crescent	MN	72
13	Winona	MN	71
14	Tomah	WI	69
15	St Louis	MO	62

Now I have this stuck in my head.

Happy anniversary Badger Catholics!

Today is the one year anniversary of The Badger Catholic blog!  Today also is the Memorial of St John Capistrano(new calendar), the great Italian Franciscan priest and 70 year old leader of a crusade against the Ottoman Turks whom were quickly razing and pillaging the Kingdom of Hungary.  In my opinion he is also definitely the basis of JRR Tolkien's Gandalf character, at least in a historical context(Gandalf was actually a member of a race of angels, not of the race of men).

As the battle rages on, cheers and slainte!
Kapisztrán Szent János, ora pro nobis!!

Do I post too much?

Seriously.  Maybe trim the stories down a bit?  I get rrrrreally trigger happy sometimes.  Criticism happily accepted. 

I've got some nice stories I'm working on but it turns out to actually write a good story it takes time and resources.  Maybe I can find a government job that lets me blog all day?  Is Acorn hiring?

So I have

an infected cut on my leg from playing softball and then proceeded to download a virus on my computer last night....  Is God trying to tell me something??

Commenters

Reminder to commenters that you can call ideas stupid or other individual comments stupid but you cannot call other commenters stupid. And really, you are far more effective if you can articulate what you really mean to say.  I'd rather not have to moderate comments here.  I do delete spammers and personal insulters.  Insult ideas and philosophies all you want.

Someone took note of my story

A few weeks ago I posted My Jesuit Story.

The blog Good Jesuit, Bad Jesuit picked it up.  Thanks to the commenter for their kind words.

Uppy

Every time my two year old sees the top of my blog, he yells "Uppy!" (Puppy) and proceeds to bark like a dog. 

A new look

Well I thought that would go well except is screwed up all my modules over on the right of the screen.  I used a program called Artisteer which isn't perfect but I would still highly recommend.  Blogger is only one of the many applications it can be used to design templates for. A little too green which I couldn't seem to straighten out, especially with a wife with the flu at home.

I'm not quite sure if I like it yet.  

Wisconsin Catholic Bloggers

I thought I'd put together a list.  I simply went to Catholic Blog Directory and pulled off all the entries with Wisconsin in the description.  Listed in alphabetical order, which coincidentally puts yours truly at numero uno. 

The Badger Catholic - Matt K., Wisconsin
The Bridge - Fr. Frank Majka, SJ, Wisconsin
A Broken Fortress - Allison, Wisconsin
Catholic Wintertime in Milwaukee - Faithful Catholic, Wisconsin
Cheeky Pink Girl - Charlotte, Wisconsin
Crusader Knight - James Pawlak, Wisconsin
Dad29 - Dad29, Wisconsin
Digital Catholic - Philip, Wisconsin (formerly Inflated Tires)
Dogpatch, Ergo Sum - Jerry DePyper, Wisconsin (formerly Dogpatch of the North)
A Fruitful Vine - Krissy A., Wisconsin 
Heart of the Home with Six Kids - Mom of Six, Wisconsin
Holy Cross Family of Green Bay, Wisconsin - Holy Cross Staff, Wisconsin
HuMAMAe Vitae - Katie, Wisconsin
Imprisoned in My Bones - Anne, Wisconsin
Marquette Warrior - John McAdams, Wisconsin
Mary's Anawim - Fr. Rick Heilman, Wisconsin
Meet Joe Convert - Sean Herriott, Wisconsin
Modern Commentaries - Amy Pawlak, Wisconsin
The New Apologist - Aaron Olson, Wisconsin
Offer It Up - Fr. James Kubicki, SJ, Wisconsin
Our Orthodox Catholic Family - Pam Folbrecht, Wisconsin
Polonia Pearl - Eddie, Wisconsin
Pro-Life Strike / Abortion Boycott - Gerald DePyper, Wisconsin
The Provincial Emails - Terrence Berres, Wisconsin
The Reluctant Traditionalist - David Palm, Wisconsin
Sacra Domus Nazarena - Nazareth Priest, Wisconsin
Saint Anne Catholic Church - Group, Wisconsin
Scriptura et Ecclesia - Fr. Brian Dulli, Wisconsin
Stand in the Trenches - M.E., Wisconsin
Studeo - Love2Learn Mom, Wisconsin
Sub Tuum - Br. Stephen, O.Cist., Wisconsin
WI Catholic Musings - WICatholic, Wisconsin
Yes, I'm Catholic - Janet Meyer, Wisconsin

My wifes email to me today

what kinda mood you in today?  you seem weird... i mean weirder than usual.  are you even working today... you keep emailing me, don't you have anything better to do?  the boys miss you... i might miss ya a little too

On that note, it looks like Blogger is working again.