The Daily News
1 Ah, Monday!
2 You make the weekend so exquisitely short.
3 I sleep off Friday nights for whatever reason. I then attempt something each weekend, but for whatever reason Monday looms, especially all day Sunday.
4 Personal neurosis.
5 The startling or not so startling thing is that I planned everything so carefully during the week. I had today's lesson plan already done by Saturday morning. I stayed all over everything.
6 I even did a bunch of Spring cleaning and organizing, but in the end, Monday loomed.
7 You can run but you can't hide.
8 Moving Reluctantly On, Part One: Ah, I kid.
9 I actually love Mondays, because when football season is over, nothing happens on Sundays.
10 I have evidence.
11 I subscribe to the Merc News, and each Monday I write them a letter that someone stole 3/4 of my paper.
12 Sometimes it never reaches the driveway.
13 This morning's headline is a major story about potholes.
14 If Jimmy Olsen wrote that story, Perry White would have hollered at him. This was a running theme in the Superman and Jimmy Olsen comics: Perry White was somehow stuck with Jimmy Olsen, a reporter who had no nose for news.
15 "If a dog bites a man, that's not news. If a man bites a dog, that's news!" White would scold Olsen.
16 I would hate to be Jimmy Olsen on a Monday.
17 Moving Reluctantly On, Part Two: When I wasn't looking, did Pope Francis jockey to make Father Junipero Serra a saint?
18 Does the guy have any concept of that?
19 For the record, anyone who goes to someone else's country and hurls the indigenous people into abject misery probably shouldn't be considered a saint.
20 As usual, the Vatican seems to slip history into some sort of Easter Basket overflowing with bunnies and lilies.
21 Here's an article I hunted down over the weekend due in part to my friend John Arnolfo's wondering of what my angle might be on the story.
22 It is partially the story of Barbara Boxer's 2004 campaign to the instill the California Preservation Act, which would provide $10,000,000 to help restore the California missions, not a bad concept on the surface.
23 Like any history of the white man's conquest of indigenous peoples, it leaves out a few details. The article is retrieved from SF Gate, written by Elias Castillo and published on November 8, 2004.
24 It doesn't take long before Castillo gets to the thesis:
What the bill utterly omits is that locked within the missions is a terrible truth--that they were little more than concentration camps where California's Indians were beaten, whipped, maimed, burned, tortured and virtually exterminated by the friars.
25 Just another in a series of Popes.
26 This guy should be cannonized. That is NOT a misspelling. I meant "cannonized" as in Quaker Oats.
27 Anybody lookin'? Here's the link. Read the article. It'll open your eyes here on a Monday.
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/The-dark-terrible-secret-of-California-s-missions-2685666.php
28 You may need to cut/paste. Do so.
29 Sometimes reporting the news causes screws and marbles to fall out of my ears and eyes.
30 This Pope needs to put away his Crayons and read a book.
31 Man bites Dog indeed.
32 I imagine it is a more rugged story than the potholes that seem so important to the Merc.
33 Just another in hundreds of stories the Vatican would probably not wish brought up.
34 For the record Mr. Pope, we shouldn't really be placing sainthood on thugs. It isn't proper.
35 Moving On, Part the Thoid: I can be such a stinker sometimes.
36 HE brought it up. The Pope. Not me. I just dug not too deeply to expose this stuff for what it is, in truth.
37 Ah, we can push it out.
38 Well, you can.
39 I can't.
40 My third eye sees.
41 Moving On, Part Four: Ah, Monday!
42 We're back where we started.
43 I gottago.
44 I've a saloon to run.
45 You guys have a GREAT day.
46 Peace.
47 Peace.
11 I subscribe to the Merc News, and each Monday I write them a letter that someone stole 3/4 of my paper.
12 Sometimes it never reaches the driveway.
13 This morning's headline is a major story about potholes.
14 If Jimmy Olsen wrote that story, Perry White would have hollered at him. This was a running theme in the Superman and Jimmy Olsen comics: Perry White was somehow stuck with Jimmy Olsen, a reporter who had no nose for news.
15 "If a dog bites a man, that's not news. If a man bites a dog, that's news!" White would scold Olsen.
16 I would hate to be Jimmy Olsen on a Monday.
17 Moving Reluctantly On, Part Two: When I wasn't looking, did Pope Francis jockey to make Father Junipero Serra a saint?
18 Does the guy have any concept of that?
19 For the record, anyone who goes to someone else's country and hurls the indigenous people into abject misery probably shouldn't be considered a saint.
20 As usual, the Vatican seems to slip history into some sort of Easter Basket overflowing with bunnies and lilies.
21 Here's an article I hunted down over the weekend due in part to my friend John Arnolfo's wondering of what my angle might be on the story.
22 It is partially the story of Barbara Boxer's 2004 campaign to the instill the California Preservation Act, which would provide $10,000,000 to help restore the California missions, not a bad concept on the surface.
23 Like any history of the white man's conquest of indigenous peoples, it leaves out a few details. The article is retrieved from SF Gate, written by Elias Castillo and published on November 8, 2004.
24 It doesn't take long before Castillo gets to the thesis:
What the bill utterly omits is that locked within the missions is a terrible truth--that they were little more than concentration camps where California's Indians were beaten, whipped, maimed, burned, tortured and virtually exterminated by the friars.
25 Just another in a series of Popes.
26 This guy should be cannonized. That is NOT a misspelling. I meant "cannonized" as in Quaker Oats.
27 Anybody lookin'? Here's the link. Read the article. It'll open your eyes here on a Monday.
http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/openforum/article/The-dark-terrible-secret-of-California-s-missions-2685666.php
28 You may need to cut/paste. Do so.
29 Sometimes reporting the news causes screws and marbles to fall out of my ears and eyes.
30 This Pope needs to put away his Crayons and read a book.
31 Man bites Dog indeed.
32 I imagine it is a more rugged story than the potholes that seem so important to the Merc.
33 Just another in hundreds of stories the Vatican would probably not wish brought up.
34 For the record Mr. Pope, we shouldn't really be placing sainthood on thugs. It isn't proper.
35 Moving On, Part the Thoid: I can be such a stinker sometimes.
36 HE brought it up. The Pope. Not me. I just dug not too deeply to expose this stuff for what it is, in truth.
37 Ah, we can push it out.
38 Well, you can.
39 I can't.
40 My third eye sees.
41 Moving On, Part Four: Ah, Monday!
42 We're back where we started.
43 I gottago.
44 I've a saloon to run.
45 You guys have a GREAT day.
46 Peace.
47 Peace.
~H~
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