Conservative Donnybrook

I am an unemployed attorney. The glory that was student loan money has long since dried up and as I look for proper attorney work I have been forced to live off the graces of my parents. I have been searching long and hard, with no success, for a stop-gap job to make a little money with while the real job hunt continues.

I thought that things might have changed when I went to the post office today to mail more resumes out. Posted on the wall was a job for “temporary rural carrier.” For anyone who knows me, they would know that this is the perfect temporary job for me (other than maybe a groundskeeper) and hell, it paid $13 an hour. I figured I could tear around back country roads like the Duke Boys, blasting the Allman Brothers and delivering the mail. So I asked one of the postal workers for the application. Much to my surprised he returned with a twenty page behemoth of an application. For a TEMPORARY mail carrying job. I figured by the time I actually made it through interviews and got the job it would be time to collect social security. Needless to say the application has found the bottom of my trash can and the back country dream is dead for now.

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For those of you who have not heard, anti-war protesters interrupted Cardinal Francis George’s Easter homily yesterday. Here is what happened:

The individuals involved were arrested and face battery charges as well as felony trespass charges. As a Chicago Catholic I can only say I wish one good Catholic man would have jumped up when this began and put these fools in their place. Preferably physically, to show them that force can bring a decisive end to intolerance and hate. As well as to bring it all to a quick end.

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Happy Dyngus Day! On this day in 966, Poland became a Christian nation. And, on this day in 2008, it is one of the few left. Go find a beer and a polka band and celebrate the greatness of being Polish (even if, like me, you are not).

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