Last week it was washing computer keyboards in the dishwasher. Now they’re ironing books Can these new household tasks be for real? And has anyone told Flylady about this yet?.

TFTD makes fun of state mottos. A few examples:

Kansas–Ad astra per aspera–(Latin, “To the stars through difficulty”)
(Kansas, the original home of NASA)

North Carolina–Esse quam videri–(Latin, “To be rather than to seem”)
(Wow, North Carolina gets metaphysical.)

Rhode Island–Hope
(Smallest state, shortest motto)

Circle of Quiet quotes Frederick Buechner on boredom: Listening to Your Life.

To be bored is to turn down cold whatever life happens to be offering you at the moment. It is to cast a jaundiced eye at life in general including most of all your own life. You feel nothing is worth getting excited about because you are yourself not worth getting excited about.

At Church of the Masses, Barbara Nicolosi tells about James, a NYT reporter looking for the link between Hollywood Christians and the Big Money Evangelicals in Washington. Unfortunately for James, this story line is all in his head, no Big Money, no link.

And finally Amy Wellborn, a devout Catholic, writes about Protestants evangelizing or proselytizing Catholics. What she says about the subject may surprise you; she cer tainly got a lot of comments. Nevertheless, I think she makes sense.