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I love animals but this is a bit much. Spain ponders rights for all the great apes – World – insider.washingtontimes.com An excerpt:    The law would eliminate the concept of "ownership" for great apes, instead placing them under the "moral guardianship" of the state, much as is the case for children in care, the…

I must be in a theological / religious state of mind (note the prior post). Here’s an interesting article on the phenomenon of an expanding number of seminarians in Poland. They are in demand throughout Europe, with more than 100 of them in the mission land of England! BBC NEWS | Europe | Polish priests…

I picked up on this on Amy Welborn’s weblog, Open Book. There’s a link to Open Book on my skimpy blogroll to the right of this posting. For some reason I thought of the thug Zarqawi, proclaimed a "martyr" on the Al Queda website, and his so-called "spiritual advisor" (what was he doing – advising…

I respect anyone who can figure out how to get paid 15 million dollars a year just for talking (being "perky"), but this is still a joke. "Anyone who watches ‘Today’ knows I’ve done more hard-hitting interviews than any evening news anchor."                                        …

My town of Croton-on-Hudson NY (pop. 7,000) has been having a street fair for close to 20 years (maybe longer). The usual stuff; a nice parade, and plenty of street vendors, local businesses, churches, philanthropic groups, etc, having exhibits and stalls on the street. Our church, Holy Name of Mary is into the fair in…

A man owned a small farm in upstate New York. The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance claimed he was not paying proper wages to his help and sent an agent out to interview him. "I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them," demanded the agent. "Well, there…

This book was given to me while I was in Sloan Kettering in January, by Steve Valerio and his wife Jennifer. For a couple of years while I was coaching the North Jersey Rugby Club, Steve was the president of the club. He wrote a really lovely sentiment in the front of the book, for…

We had an excellent dinner Saturday night with our friends the Novotnys and the Riners. We went to a French restaurant in Yonkers, which is relatively new and has developed a fine reputation. And it was packed. Here’s a few pictures: Eat your heart out, world! And just so you know Brigid’s having a good…

UPDATE: 5-30-06 Here’s the picture of Tim that I couldn’t post yesterday, and that should have gone below. Here’s a picture of Tim at the end of the Ossining Memorial Day paraade this morning. His scout troop, troop 49 sponsored by St. Augustine’s school, always marches in the parade. By coincidence Tim was carrying the…

The “Super 14” provincial competition consists of the top 14 provinces in New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. They all play each other once, and then the top four teams go into a playoff. The finalists this year were two New Zealand teams, the Canterbury Crusaders and Wellington Hurricanes. Unfortunately the final as a spectacle…