Mark Gabriel, my brother Phil and his wife Ann’s fourth child (third son) was baptized this past Sunday. Here are some photos of the clan. Mark and Godmother Lisa Tom, Jim and Philip Grandma, and Phil, with the Godfather Jim and his wife Melissa sitting behind… Ann and her Aunt Maria to her right Brigid … Read more
The author is former director of development research at the World Bank and advisor to the British government’s Commission on Africa. A really interesting interview. TCS Daily – The Bottom Billion No More? Schulz: As bad as things are for the bottom billion, you believe it’s possible that the statistics we have to describe what … Read more
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 … Read more
We are living longer. It’s best if you’re a caucasian woman. U.S. Life Expectancy Hits New High – washingtonpost.com Hoyert also noted that women continue to outlive men. "The difference in 2005 was 5.2 years. This is the same as in 2004," she said. "But it’s at the lowest level it has been at since … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
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 … Read more
Well, this turned out to be an even easier day then I expected. Judy Anderson went down to Sloan Kettering with me, the traffic was light, and things were on schedule at the hospital. So I actually was taken down to the Interventional Radiology Department on time at 11 o’clock. And I was back up … Read more
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 … Read more