Proof!

A while back I cleaned up my links. It was a long time ago, as you can probably tell from the omissions as well as the dead links. If I can find a couple of hours I will do it again. Don't hold your breath. In a couple of hours I can do a lot that is more fun or more profitable than cleaning blog links.

Anyway, I decided, in the last purge, to get rid of all Canadian links. I was either angry with Canada over something in particular, or was just a little extra grumpy in my general dislike of things Englisch. Since I consider Washington state to be a southern outpost of the dread Canada, I delinked Mark Shea (he also lost points because he is an apologist, and I rarely read him anyway). Like I said, I was in a pretty foul mood.

Now, even though I am no fan of reading apologetics, the whole reason I linked to Shea is that he writes interesting tidbits here and there, and I have been impressed by his general manner of distinguishing between the Catholic Faith and the Republican Party. So far so good. Recently I went over there and saw some good stuff on this or that. Nothing Earth-shattering, but some amusing items here and there.

So I got to thinking, "maybe I should put him back on the blog roll."

And then...

I read this.

He confesses. He is Canadian on his mother's side.

Now, I am no stickler for limpieza de sangre laws, and even have some Canadian in my background (it was just a brief stop for part of my family from Austria to Oregon to California). However, I find it hard to ignore Canadian heritage from someone who lives in Seattle, which is exactly where I would impose martial law and interrogate all of the citizens, were I the dictator, and looking for Canada-symps, fellow travellers and other creeps and kooks.

Their coffee is third rate, too, while we're at it. And don't get me started on their crappy "scunge" music either. Yuck. All the noise of punk rock, but coupled to the dripping sentimentality of 1980's pop, awash in a wave of heroin. Lovely.

So, it is with a clear conscience that I continue my policy of not linking to Mark Shea, even though he really has had some interesting tidbits, which would be worth looking at, were he not impure.