Some idiot ran a truck through the field of crosses the supporters of Mrs. Sheehan had erected in Crawford. This is a very stupid and adolescent thing to do. It is ALWAYS a stupid and adolescent thing to do. But there are stupid adolescents on both sides of aisle. Hello, you folks on the right who are doing stupid things like this? You are not helping “your side.” Hello, you folks on the left who are doing stupid things like... Read more
Last November, a teenage boy played a “prank” that went horribly awry. From a speeding vehicle, he threw a frozen 20lb turkey at a car, and it crashed through the window, bent the steering wheel and broke or fractured every bone in a woman’s face. Yesterday, in a small courthouse in Riverhead, NY tough, hardened lawyers, reporters and others witnessed the face of grace, and it moved many of them to tears. Accompanied by several friends and relatives, Ms. Ruvolo,... Read more
Kobayashi Maru’s brother has been dealing with leukemia for a little while, and yesterday the news became very bad, indeed. The test results are back. His leukemia is back – for the third time. He’s been given a 5% chance to live. There. I got it out. If it had been anyone else, the doctor said…the doctor would have recommended hospice care. Hospice. Shit. Next year he turns forty. Instead, they’re going to throw the pharmacy at him – radiation,... Read more
And no, it’s not just me sitting here snarking at journalists! There are several pieces out there on the current state and future of Journalism, and I think they’re all interesting and important in one way or another. Doug at Bogus Gold links to this Jay Rosen piece on a recent J-School professor’s convention: Next was Dianne Lynch, dean of the School of Communications at Ithaca College…She told us a startling story about an exceptional student who gave up a... Read more
The Be Still and Know that I am God. She has a nice post here. I don’t know if you can tell or not but I have been trying to steer my blog in a more spiritual/faith based related theme. Lately I have noticed a tribe of word-slingers and their brassiness on the blogosphere with earsplitting shrills saturated in conceit that gives the super-sized Michael Moore a run for his fries money, all in the name of “getting noticed” by... Read more
What do they have in common? Before you begin to fear that Shelley Winters has written another volume of her biography, or someone has found the secret papers of Princess Grace, recall that it is Tuesday, and that means the Cotillion gals are at it again. As a Cary Grant fan, I am especially taken with Mary Katharine Ham’s hosting duties which surround our Mr. Leach with conservative gals who are writing about Condi Rice, NAMBLA, Naral, Bulimia and a... Read more
I’ve just been very busy. The day started with Mass, then a funeral, then a loooong day of doctors and meetings at church and talking to a guy about finally getting new siding for the house…egad. And then the mound of email…I’m so glad every day isn’t this busy! I haven’t had a chance to read a word of news, or write a sentence! Nothing new to report on the health front. A holding pattern is emerging while I await... Read more
I have a pal up in Canada who has told me that the WYD up there (in 2000) was a stunner that took the secular city by surprise, and in good ways. I hope it will be good for Cologne. My husband was there a few years ago and thought the city and the cathedral so uniquely lovely he did a rare thing and brought back a touristy little booklet for me, which I loved. Anyway – all that aside,... Read more
I’m sure I am late to this and probably everyone has seen it, but I had not, and I think it’s an eye-opening post from Chrenkoff. Read more
An interesting piece by Jon Pitts at the Baltimore Sun – I don’t believe I’ve read any stories about Military Recruiters, before. “I don’t have to sell [recruits] a thing,” says Ziegler, 28, a native of Leroy, Kan., population 500. “I’m a small-town guy who grew up to visit nearly every state and travel all over the world. I’ve learned to scuba dive and skydive. I’ll be getting a biology degree. I’ve got a great wife and kids. Seems pretty... Read more
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