Maybe it's my imagination, but I swear when the priests see me they dig deeply into the ashes and load up with an an extra-strength, industrial-strength dose to smear on the forehead of the super-sinner before them.
I can't blame them. When confronted with a lawyer-journalist-politician-lobbyist-talk radio host, they're probably thinking "exorcism" instead of just ashes.
When applying ashes, the priest says: "Remember, you are dust, and to dust you shall return." It does keep things in perspective. Keeps the head from swelling and the ego from expanding accordingly.
A blessed Lent to all who observe it.
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Chipper Fatso Baldy
That's what my sister, Mimi, calls this picture.
Chip's Bio
- Executive Director: Fatherhood-Family Initiative
- Communications Director: Nebraska Coalition for Ethical Research
- Adjunct Professor: Bellevue University
- Douglas County Commissioner
- Nebraska State Senator
- Law Degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Master’s Degree in American History from Oxford University
- Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science from Boston College
- Graduate of Creighton Prep and St. Cecilia’s Elementary
- Development Director for the Jesuit Middle School of Omaha
- Editorial Writer for the Omaha World-Herald
- Special Assistant to U.S. Senator Chuck Hagel
- Member of St. Cecilia’s Cathedral Parish
- Omaha Coalition of Citizen Patrols
- Law Clerk for the Nebraska Court of Appeals
- Won a free piece of cheesecake in college for playing a spirited, though choppy, rendition of “Has Anybody Seen My Gal?” on an old-fashioned piano at a pizza parlor. This has nothing to do with anything in my blog, but it’s the one thing in my bio that everyone remembers.
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