UPDATE/NOTICE: If you're seeing this as the latest CC post, keep hitting the "refresh" button on your browser until you get the latest version of the CC blog. There's some software glitch that unpredictably eliminates every post that has gone up after this one.
Internet service went out at my place over the weekend, and the tech nerd is not going to be able to come over to fix it until tomorrow. I've just escaped from Mr. Mom duty to run to a neighborhood Starbucks and get a message to the outside world via wi-fi. If you see light blogging here today and tomorrow, you'll know why.
Man. How did I ever become so *&^$#@ dependent on a broadband connection?! Some crunchy dude I am.
And hey, just so you know, I thank the good Lord for the plug-in drug! If not for endless rounds of "Looney Tunes" (the old ones, not the abysmal new ones) and "The Jetsons" on DVD, plus the PBS Kids line-up to turn my boys' brains to mush and to thus render them immobile while I cook and clean and grocery-shop and basically be Mr. Mom 24/7, I don't know what I would do. There, I've said it. Sic transit gloria crunchy.
Help! Help! I'm being oppressed!
Monday October 23, 2006
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Rod Dreher is an editorial columnist for the Dallas Morning News, and author of "Crunchy Cons" (Crown Forum), a nonfiction book about conservatives, most of them religious, whose faith and political convictions sometimes put them at odds with mainstream conservatives. The views expressed in this blog are his own.
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Wow. Nastiness abounds suddenly. (Come and see the violence inherent in the system?)
I know this makes me the nerd of all nerds, but I think you mean "repressed," not "oppressed.">
Rod,
A heads up here, as much as I enjoy your blog it's frustrating to be able to see your updated posts only intermittently. I'm posting this here only because it's the latest posting I can see. What's up with beliefnet's system?
Peter>
"The Crunchy Con's Survival Guide to Infants" - Oh pleaseeeeeeeeeeeee!
amazing how little it takes for some!'
My wife and I have 7 children!
Hey Rod have you heard from Bronson?>
I've been seeing this post as the top one off and on as well. Yesterday I saw some newer entries, yesterday evening (PST) and today this has been the top. Better get the geeks on the case...>
I don't think crunchyness is just about avoiding TV or feeling like you must make all meals from scratch or you're some sort of evil person if you use disposable diapers. Or broadband internet.
If you have a spirit of detachment from material possessions and you realize that life is not about just more more more conspicuous consumption, you're on the road to crunchydom. So, hey, serve microwaved meals so you won't go nuts wiht a new baby around & let the kids watch a little TV.
As to Rod "biting the hand that feeds him" I don't know what that means. AFAIK he's not said bad things about National Review or Dallas Morning News or wherever else he's worked.
I mean, really, a blog dedicated just to running Rod down? Don't you people have anything better to do with your time? The words "get a life" occur to me.>
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