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Yes, my friends, the blog is back!!

In announcing this, I can't help but be reminded of a scene from the seminal mockumentary, This is Spinal Tap.  The band, beleaguered but still trudging along, tells their audience they are witnesses to 'Spinal Tap Mark 2', switching from heavy medal to meanderous jazz, while playing to a half-filled zoo amphitheater, second on the bill to a puppet show.

So, this is the Pope Charming Blog, Mark 2, writing for a depleted audience, and radically different from the previous posts in style.

Why blog again after almost a year?  Now that my doctoral exams are over, I find myself with more time to reflect, brood, create, and most importantly of all, pontifficate.  More to the point, now that I'm not reading 1.3 books a day, and am off on my research year, my life has finally become interesting enough to write about again.

Ergo, check back to my blog often.  There will be lots of updates on my work, if anybody is interested, but also more political, and occassionally religious, commentary. 

On to South Dakota!!