Things

Sorry, nothing coherent here. I’ve got an ever-growing post about our climbing trip this weekend, including details of how we left Jen’s harness at home and my thrilling fall on a gear route. But you may have to wait for the book to read about these and other antics.

Lance Armstrong took the yellow jersey after the team time trial yesterday at the Tour de France. CSC’s David Zabriskie literally had the jersey ripped from his shoulders when he fell roughly a kilometer from the finish line. Armstrong had at least one minute separating him from the other contenders at the moment, so it will take quite an attack in the mountains to prevent the Texan from winning number seven.

Update

Armstrong is not wearing the yellow jersey today out of respect for Zabriskie, since he lost the lead thanks to his crash. He still, obviously, leads the GC.

On politics and religion, Fr. Jape outlines why, perhaps, Christians need not be so worried about the comings and goings in the political sphere (though the Jebbie might cringe at such a term):

But in the main, I do not think there is any real hope for “reform” of the late-liberal state. I think the best answer is to resist disorder personally, and if one is truly successful at this, it will spill over into one’s family and one’s immediate community. Hunker down and wait for the big crash per MacIntyre* and Eliot.** See what’s salvageable from the rubble.

If you’re at all interested in the larger discussion that prompted the above post, follow the trail of posts here.

In related news, let me complain about Blogger for a bit — it seems their HTML editor adds a <div style="clear:both;"> to the beginning and end of each post upon publication. If you use any sort of floating div layout (as the DCH site does), those divs break the layout in Firefox. I’m not happy, but I’ve been too busy to complain directly to Blogger.