ASH WEDNESDAY REMINDER

Do not forget to have a fey, robed man press his manicured-yet-besotted thumb against your forehead today, my Katholic Komrades.

As a kid, we all thought it was very cool and wore it as a badge of honor. Then again, we thought that casually munching on purloined hosts behind the rectory was cool, too.

I don't feel that way about Ash Wednesday anymore, now that I have a good idea just where some of those thumbs have been.

For lent, I think you should all give up the forum. That'll give GOD 40 days to really clean this place out.

Always call the place you live a house. When you're old, everyone else will call it a home.