Hangover Man
I behaved last night. I took my family to a minor league hockey game, came home
and played a card game with the older kids, watched the ball drop, then went to
bed. I was up at 7:30 and got the family to 8:30 Mass. For those not
Eric Scheske
Covert Converts
Chilling article in WaPo this morning about the worst Islamic threat
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/31/AR2005123101056.html]
: Westerners who convert to Islam. Excerpt:
> Converts are prized by radical Islamic groups because they can usually operate
freely in Europe, Asia and North America
Something for Sunday Morning
> Even where the Faith is preserved men pursue wealth and power inordinately.
Where the Faith is lost they pursue nothing else.
Hilaire Belloc
HNY
Happy New Year!
Slow Day
I guess everyone's drinking already. There's scarcely nothing to blog about this
afternoon. Thankfully, I went to the bookstore this morning with a gift card I
received for Christmas. With this "burn money," I bought The New Book of Lists
[http://www.amazon.com/
Top Catholic Stories
Top Catholic Stories of 2005, according to Catholic World Report.
[http://www.cwnews.com/news/dossier/view.cfm?id=24]
1. Death of JPII
2. Election of B16
3. Homosexuality Instruction
4. The appointment of Archbishop William Levada as prefect of the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith.
5.
Live Cam
This might be handy to have tonight, if you're sitting around with your family,
waiting for the Ball [http://www.earthcam.com/ts/].
> This broadcast quality camera pans north and south to show multiple views of
Times Square. Catch the action in the streets and see all
The Ball
Pretty much everything you'd want to know about the Times Square Ball
[http://www.timessquarenyc.org/nye/nye_ball.html]. Perfect reading for being
ready when your ten-year-old starts asking questions in nine hours.
A Sad Day
Steve Martin has declared himself for the secularists: he has written for The
Huffington Post
[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-martin/leap-second-lovers-are-tr_b_13068.html]
. His piece is clever: a purported monologue by Bill O'Reilly that consists of
disjointed connections, bordering on jibberish. The
Barney on Peace
> Massachusetts could face an "angry, divisive" fight if a proposed constitutional
amendment to ban gay marriage reaches the 2008 state ballot, Rep. Barney Frank
says.
> The congressman blamed backers of the initiative petition for trying to provoke
a new fight despite a lack of controversy over