Saints and sinners

A couple of weeks ago the front page of the National Post featured a large photo of the late Mother Teresa, topped with the headline “I HAVE NO FAITH”.

This headline is of course far removed from it’s original context and sensationalized to sell papers (oooo, Lindsay, Britney, Ma Teresa). Recently a collection of her letters, sent to a confidante, were discovered, letters she’d requested destroyed upon her death. The letters, some dating back 40 years, indicated that this saintly woman had, on several occasions, faced a dire crisis of faith.

Personally I find these revelations to be a more comforting version of faith than had she been steadfast in her convictions. Mother Teresa was a human being, certainly a more compassionate and dedicated human being than I and maybe you, but a human being all the same, one who wore the flaws and the bonds of original creation. She was not perfect, and I find this reassuring because none of us are. She worked amongst the poorest of the poor, the sickest of the sick, people with no hope in a city that could pass for hell. And she experienced a lapse of faith? Who’d have thought! Slacker.

Whether you believe him to have been the messiah (Christianity), a prophet (Judaism) or just a mortal man, it’s well documented that Jesus Christ underwent a major crisis of faith on the eve of his crucifixion. I think we can cut soon-to-be-a Saint Mother Theresa some slack here folks.

MMMMmmmm, mouse head

I love my cats, all 3 of them, but when I found the bloodied severed head of a mouse in my home studio the other morning, I can’t say that warm and fuzzy kitty love was what I was feeling. More like that confused early morning “WTF is THAT” kind of disgust.

yeesh…

She works hard for the money...

Wow, some woman just got off the train dressed like a bleached-blonde hooker. I can’t tell if she’s coming FROM work or going TO work.

Angels and Demons revisited

Well, I finished reading Dan Brown’s “Angels and Demons” and I have to take back some of my earlier remarks to the effect that it was little more than an early “draft” of “The DaVinci Code”.

I loved this book, in fact I enjoyed it much more than “The DaVinci Code”. It was more intense, the symbology was deeper, and it was just a great read.

Btw it’s currently in production for a major film release. Since the books lead character is the same Robert Langdon from “The DaVinci Code” I fear that the movie lead will again be Tom Hanks, to which I can only say uurrrgghhhhhhh!!!!

aarrrrgghhhhh

If you are a resident of Ontario I REALLY hope you can see through the thinly-veiled Liberal party’s latest attempt at vote-bribery aka the “proposed” February statutory holiday.

Seriously, can you really trust a party that, for the past 4 years, has lied to you, taken more than their share of your hard earned dollars in order to cover their f**kups, raised taxes, made YOU pay TWICE for the same health care you used to only pay ONCE for, given themselves a 25% salary increase, and started their Summer vacation 3 weeks early because, in Dalton McGinty’s words “our business was finished, we’d fulfilled our mandate” - and then has the gall to suggest that “everything will be wonderful because we’ll give you (angelic harps) A DAY OFF”!!!

WTF IS THAT?????????????????

If you were an employer and the Liberal Party of Ontario were an employee, would you not fire them? I would. They lied on their resume, they dipped into the till, then they blackmailed you for a pay raise and an extra 3 weeks of vacation.

Well, surprise surprise, they ARE an employee, and WE ARE their employers – and that’s the beauty of democracy, we CAN fire them.

Dalton, stop insulting our intelligence, we’re neither fooled nor amused.