The redoubtable Anthony Sacramone, most amusing of the Lutheran bloggers (OK, it’s a low bar) has done it again. And I don’t mean that in a good way.

His recently resurrected Strange Herring blog hasn’t been updated since March 27. And we all know what that means. Mr. Sacramone has lost interest again. He’s only been back at it since February, and already the Herring languishes like a dead… well, like a dead herring.

I suppose I ought to be grateful for what I can get. I try to be clever on this blog, but I’m seldom hilarious. I’m not capable of the consistent high level of mirth that Sacramone generates when he’s on. No doubt it takes something out of a fellow. Perhaps it causes an amusement deficiency in him, forcing him to retreat to a basement hideaway and read Sylvia Plath while depilitating himself with salad tongs, until his system regenerates itself.

At least Doktor Luther In the 21st Century is still tweeting. I don’t tweet myself, or follow tweets, but I read Doktor Luther’s here.

I shall note that today was the actual beginning of spring, for me. It was the first night I have taken my walk by the lake since last fall. The temperature was almost sixty, which is a little cold for me, but a real man would probably call it perfect. I returned home without any injuries that I’m aware of, so let the revels begin!

I shall wear the ends of my trousers rolled, I think.

Got word today that Brandywine Books will shortly be added to the BBOV (Big Blogroll ‘o Vark) of the Aardvark Alley blog. Aardvark Alley is an orthodox Lutheran blog, specializing in meditations on the church calendar, though they branch out into other subjects from time to time. I doubt we’ll make the coveted “Confessional Lutheran Blogs” list, since we harbor a Calvinist (not to mention a pietist Lutheran), but any mention over at AA (gee, that looks wrong) will doubtless steer a better class (Lutheran) of readers to our site.

Mark Steyn is getting back into blogging mode. Today he takes a surgical saw to the American abortion culture. Remember “Doctor” Kermit Gosnell? How is it that a monster like that has faded utterly from public consciousness within a couple weeks?

Ever since Roe v Wade, proponents of a woman’s “right to choose” have warned us against going back to the bad old days of rusty coat hangers and unsterilized instruments from money-grubbing butchers on the wrong side of town. Now, happily, the back alley is on the main drag, and with a state permit framed on the wall.

Read it all.

I know only heartache can come from this. I get my hopes up, tremblingly extend my trust, develop confidence over time, and then… it’s gone again. Where I looked for a light respite from the trials and stresses of modern life, there is only the brute word, “Hiatus,” evocative of hernias.

Yet hope persists. And so I share the link with you — Anthony Sacramone’s brilliant Strange Herring blog is back.

For now.

In case any of you live in the Huntington, West Virginia area, be advised that I’ll be interviewed on the Tom Roten Show, on WVHU, AM 800, on Thursday, January 20, 8:35 a.m. The subject, of course, will be West Oversea.

What follows, I’m afraid, is pretty Twin Cities Inside Radio-Ball. But an era is semi-passing for local conservatism, and I want to mark it with a post.

The talk radio station I generally listen to is WWTC, AM 1280, “The Patriot,” a fine station affiliated with the Salem Broadcasting Network. It doesn’t have much of a signal, but for urban dwellers like me it fills a need.

We also have some pretty good bloggers in these parts. Among them are Power Line (famous for helping to blow Dan Rather out of the water over the forged George W. Bush National Guard documents), Fraters Libertas, and Shot In the Dark. Salem talk show host Hugh Hewitt started referring to them as The Northern Alliance of Blogs (a play on the name of the coalition of Afghan militias helping America at the time), and it was his idea for them to do a weekly show on WWTC. Continue reading The last of the First Team →