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It’s very difficult to get yourself excommunicated from the Catholic Church, but here’s a group that managed it! Excommunicated « Charlotte was Both In a judgment delivered to the group on Monday, and announced yesterday, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith ruled that the ordinations of six priests in the Army of Mary…

Althouse: On the evening of September 10th, there is a mournful glow in lower Manhattan. Actually, Ann Althouse is allowing people to post it, so here it is –

Here’s a transcript of the whole, boring rant released today as an online video. I excerpted some good bits to show the probable influence of the above. It would be funny if the guy wasn’t a mass-murdering, homicidal maniac. I’m worried about my sons being incinerated by Islamic-terrorist nukes in 20 years. Late night talk…

Robert J. Samuelsen writes on economic issues in the Washington Post and Newsweek. Unlike many columnists with an axe to grind, he makes a big deal about facts and figures. The government’s annual poverty statistics were released last week, indicating poverty, as they measure it, had fallen three tenths of a point, to 12.3%. Samuelsen…

Here’s an interesting (and humorous) feature in today’s New York Times on personal sanitation issues when hiking in the high mountains – No More Privies, So Hikers Add a Carry-Along – New York Times SUMMIT OF MOUNT WHITNEY, Calif., Aug. 29 — The highest outhouse in the continental United States is no more. High-altitude sanitation…

As I mentioned in a post awhile ago, the medi-port, which was "installed" August 30, 2005, so that my chemotherapy would not play havoc on my arm veins, is coming out  Tom Faranda’s Folly: Today’s appointment with the Lymphoma Guru. When the chemotherapy was being scheduled the suggestion of the medi-port was made by the…

Our plans for an overnight hike  Tom Faranda’s Folly: Off with Tim for a hike on the Appalachian Trail turned instead into a day hike on Sunday. We started out late, so I had already shortened the walk, but Tim was just uncomfortable about the whole thing. Joe had opted out of going ten days…

There’s been a lot of publicity about Mother Teresa in the last couple of weeks, based on the publication of some of her correspondence, Mother Teresa: Come be My Light. (I’ve ordered the book from Amazon). Much of the analysis has been half-baked and ignorant. Here is a good analysis in the Evangelical publication Christianity…

Last weekend we were in Boston at an Anderson family wedding, which you can read about here. Tom Faranda’s Folly: An Anderson wedding in Boston Joe and Tim were with us, and here are some pictures from the rest of our trip. This is Friday, the day we arrived, watching a street performer doing his…

Tim and I are taking off for an overnight hike, starting at the NY-CT. border and going about ten miles today to the "Telephone Pioneers Shelter" where we’ll pitch our tent. And then tomorrow another 7-10 miles, depending on how we feel, along the trail. Brigid is going to drop us off and pick us…