> The Real #Saint [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Saint?src=hash] #Francis [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Francis?src=hash] of #Assisi [https://twitter.com/hashtag/Assisi?src=hash] pic.twitter.com/Z3gYN8AgAW [http://t.co/Z3gYN8AgAW] > — Father Ted Martin (@fathertedmartin) February 9, 2015 [https://twitter.com/fathertedmartin/status/564603054381473792]

Welcome to Lent 2015. We all head in with high expectations. We all, I suspect, come out disgusted with our lack of progress. Maybe this year will be different. Maybe we can take Hemingway's advice: “Go all the way with it. Do not back off. For once, go

Someone brought these into the office today for us to try. Probably the worst potato chip ever. Cooked, no doubt, in the fat fryers of Hell.

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Miscellaneous Rambling Fifty Shades dominated the weekend box office. * * * * * * * Over the weekend, I thought about women who pursue the cloister and how the vast bulk of them are (I'm assured by anecdotal evidence) happy, perhaps the happiest people on earth. And then I thought about the millions of

A Random Passage "Listening to gossip can be likened to receiving stolen goods; it puts you in immediate collusion with the person conveying the gossip to you." Joseph Epstein, Gossip, The Untrivial Pursuit.

Brews You Can Use Hard cider is the rage. Here's a factoid you can take with you this evening to your local watering hole: "Cider has always been low in alcohol because the apples themselves are low in sugar. Even the sweetest apples contain much less sugar

NBC has suspended Brian Williams for six months without pay. Williams said he's not worried because soon his veterans' benefits will kick in. A new report says that last year Colorado collected $44 million in marijuana taxes. Unfortunately, they can't remember where they put it.