ODDS AND ENDS

The dean of St Paul's Cathedral in London, Graeme Knowles, announced his resignation.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has now made a statement about the protests.

See Thinking Anglicans for the links.

Lionel Deimel has two brilliant posts, the first on...toilet paper. Yes, you read that right. Now we know where Lionel does his best thinking.

His next post, Engineer for an Hour, is about driving an old steam train. And his photo shows Lionel all decked out looking just like Mr Puffer Bill himself.

From Ron on Facebook: Words to live by: "Never moon a werewolf" -- Mike Binder.

From the sublime to the riduculous? Or the other way around?

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

TIME TO SEND YOU AWAY...

...to read two excellent blog posts. I've included quotes to entice you to read further.

First from Doug on the miserable State of the Union at his blog Counterlight's Peculiars:

These days, we find ourselves in a fun house world of morality where a large group of already very wealthy people committed what is probably the largest act of larceny in history, almost wrecking the global economy, and yet it is the rest of us suffering the consequences who are told to feel ashamed for our wanton ways. Our representatives go out of their way to coddle the very people who ruined us all, and meanwhile try to take away our last remaining protections against the predations of the market economy. They tell us solemnly to "take responsibility," while dodging their own responsibility for creating this whole crisis. People who keep overseas tax shelters, even in times of war and crisis, are congratulated on their patriotism.

Next on the daft Anglican Covenant from Lionel at Lionel Deimel's Weblog:

Alas, Rowan has increasingly become a threat to the Church of England and to the Anglican Communion. He is, in the end, a political appointee of the English government who has exploited the respect given his office to wield power he has not been granted, to interfere in the affairs of churches not his own—rumor has it that Rowan’s was the hand behind B033, for instance—and to press for a Covenant that will change the nature of the Anglican Communion and, some would say, of Anglicanism itself.

The rich want more money, and the powerful want more power, and to hell with the rest of us.