Can I Get the Padding in Mauve?

Now that it's official that I'm on board St. Blogustine, I've been given my monk's garb, and writing desk, and shown to my cell.

I had to have my head Photoshopped onto St. Augustine and come up with a personal tag line in Latin, but what to do about the tag line? Since I don't know Latin, I could either coopt a listed saying or motto or run my own concoction through an online translator.

Matt sent word back that he would run the picture I submitted even though my head is too big (which it always has been in the Real World). That's pure inspiration that describes me, and thus became my signature phrase on the front page:

"Meus Caput Capitis Est Nimius Magnus"

(My Head Is Too Big)

All human readers are invited to correct any flaws in the robo translation in the comments or by email.

Update: My friend Todd emailed me this, which I'll go ahead and accept at face value since I know nothing of this subject.

I am a beginning Latin student so take all of this with a grain of salt. Latin uses different "cases" for nouns if they are the subject of a sentence or direct object or indirect object, etc. Caput means head used a subject. Capitis is a possessive meaning of the/my head. Capitis is also second person plural meaning you take or receive. Obviously this was done on purpose to torment Latin students.

Word order in Latin is not terribly important. Latin uses different forms of the word to tell us subject and object, while English more so uses word order. That said, the most common word order is noun adjective verb. For "my head is too big," I suggest Caput meus nimius magnus est. Free advice and worth every penny.

Done. Thanks, Todd!

TheSeriousBlog and StBlogustine

The resolution of a few short conferences with Matt Cassens is that St. Blogustine is officially our team blog. Over there, I'll post issues related pieces that are national in scope, and here I'll keep everything else, the lighter and more personal stuff. St. B has a larger, established readership that's come to expect a National Review Online lite, and thus much of what I find amusing to post wouldn't have a happy home life there. The Serious Blog will stick around for the less serious stuff.

On St. Blogustine, we discuss how the USCCB is playing post-election catch-up ball. The bishops are defunding ACORN, now that they've done so much damage over these many years, funded in part by Catholic money.

The conference failed to unify against Obama before the election, and consequently now risk shutting down the nation's Catholic hospitals because of Obama's support for FOCA. There's a little you can do yet to fight FOCA.

The Democrats Want to Confiscate Your Retirement Portfolio

Got money in an IRA, 401k, or pension plan? Now that the election is over, the Democrats have wasted no time to remove the boxing gloves, and hatch plans to reach their bare fingers into your savings - and move all of it to the Social Security Administration fund.

Read my post on St. Blogustine for more.

Now that you Obama voters drunk yourselves blind on Obamania and did something stupid on election day, how come I have wake up with him in the morning?

Serious Guest Blogging...

... at St. Blogustine. Matt Cassens and I go back many, many moons. Over 9000 of them. I'm helping Matt through a crunch to keep 'em entertained over there. He's got a bigger readership than my 10 a day here, and he promised me a thousand times my current stipend.

I'll be cross-posting my works that fit both formats here and there. See you there, and it all starts here!