UPDATE: NPR picked up the column Why You Should Run For Office My friend and neighbor down the street, Sue, sent me an email yesterday. It's was in response to my post God's Gift to the Republicans – Pelosi strikes again! on Tuesday. I thought I was God's gift to Republicanshttp://article.nationalreview.com/427376/put-me-in-coach-/susan-konig?page=1back on NRO telling people they should run … Read more
The "personal ordinariate" initiative of Pope Benedict. Their priests will have to be ordained, since Anglican ordination is not recognized by the Catholic Church. In a sense, they will have their won Anglican "rite". 100 Anglican parishes to join Catholic Church "The request means the 100 Anglican Church in America parishes will ask for … Read more
One of the major financial websites. The discussion is "Home Sellers Finally Get Real" He channels Elizabeth Kubler-Ross from "On Death and Dying." "Look at it like the stages of grief," says J. Philip Faranda, the broker-owner of J. Phillip Real Estate in Westchester County, N.Y. "In 2006 and 2007, it was denial; in 2008 … Read more
Back on January 14th I mentioned that Brigid and I had been in Haiti in 1980. Since then we’ve followed the usually bad news of poverty and violent politics coming out of Haiti. Brigid set up a small exhibit of stuff we’d picked up in Haiti twice in January; once at our Church, Holy Name of … Read more
Last Saturday (Feb. 6th) the four of us attended the 6th annual Eaglefest, sponsored by the Teatown Lake Reservation (and of course other corporate sponsors) on Croton Point. Very cool. Even the boys enjoyed themselves. the presentations were held in large tents, with about 200 people at the main talk, which dealt with two species of owls … Read more
Nodar Kumaritashvili lost control of his sled during training, went over the track wall and struck an unpadded steel pole near the finish line at Whistler Sliding Center. Paramedics and doctors were unable to revive the 21-year-old luger … Olympic luger killed in crash | NBC Olympics It was unclear how fast Kumaritashvili was going, … Read more
There are some excellent arguments for ending the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy. And there are some lousy ones. Also worth pondering is the experience of countries in which gays and lesbians serve openly. Britain and Canada are often cited as cases in point, though the deteriorating overall capabilities of their armed forces do … Read more
NOTE: If you don’t know what this is about, just go here Nine months later, and the charges still haven’t been dismissed. Ridiculous. If it actually goes to court, imagine how stupid the President of ND, Fr. Jenkins, is going to look! Anyway, here’s Johnny.
My friend Maggie Barbieri has the fourth in her romance-humor-mystery series, featuring college professor Alison Bergeron. You can find my reviews of Maggie's first three books in the series here and they're also on the amazon website in slightly edited form. Our heroine Alison ends up having to spend a few weeks living on campus in a dorm as … Read more
This picture was taken by our good friend Laurie Hurley. the March was amazing – a huge, young, crowd. More pictures to follow in a day or two.