Meanwhile, on the liturgical calendar...

Aardvark Alley- a fine blog by any standard (except perhaps that of baseball team preference)- is becoming my preferred site for reminding myself of the significance of each new day on the liturgical calendar.

Today, it seems, is the commemoration of the prophet Jonah- who, contrary to popular belief, was not swallowed by a whale.

Jonah was swallowed by "a great fish," whereas whales are mammals.

Perhaps it was a leftover Carcharodon (or Carcharocles) megalodon, such as the one inside of whose jaws the men are posing in the photograph above.