Two in a row

I fell asleep blogging last night, so let's discuss the most important issue:  the Duke loss.  On the one hand, I think Kansas is the better team, so this was expected, but on the other hand...especially when Dickinson was ejected, you HAVE to win these games.  Yet again, a freshman -- not Flagg -- committed a crucial (and avoidable) turnover and the game was lost.  This has to be on the coach, as he has to do better than that; how about a non-freshperson taking a jump shot?  Oi.

Short week -- but busy -- which is good.  I realize, of course, that there is less time than I expect, but I am hoping that be being off as much as I can, I can do some things, like read some books and watch some of the movies and such that I have been saving for.  I watched one already today -- "The Right to Read," which discusses how reading scores are abysmal and how the adoption of phonics (though they do not use the term) seems to help...but not everyone is using it.  I don't know; it just seemed odd that the non-phonics theory ever told hold, because it seems...dumb?  When we wonder why people are pulling their kids out of public schools, I think it is stuff like this that is part of the problem.

I went to the rectory on my lunch break to get Masses for the family (parents, both grandparents) and while I got the Masses... no padres were around, so no pyx was consecrated.  The new one arrived -- it is smaller than the old one (I thought it was the same size) -- and I was told there would be a priest there, but... alas.  I hit the food pantry too, to drop off a check at the church and to see if anything had arrived.  Rather, they were having a cleaning party (we are closed so why not) and unloading sheets for next month.  I guess this is fine, as we need to clean, but... in some ways organizing clothing or something might have been more useful.  Next week's delivery will be massive, all I can say...

The GOP Courts an Unlikely Voting Bloc: the Amish - WSJ
This is...hilarious?  I mean, I guess the Amish would be a natural voting bloc for the GOP, but if no one asked them -- until now -- why would they?  Honestly, given how close PA is, whoever thought this one up deserves a medal; every vote does count, and if someone can figure out how to get X number of GOP voters to the polls...long may this continue!