I spent my evening escorting/driving under-privileged children to a Christmas party with Santa. Not a lot of time for blogging today. Just a few items: Drinking Corner Michigan doesn't do a lot right, and it's liquor laws are beyond oppressive, but it's

Miscellany First, an appeal. This boy has cancer [http://www.myfoxdetroit.com/dpp/news/local/cards-wanted-for-boy-with-leukemia-20111205-ms#.Tt4E_BLXPmh.facebook] . He enjoys getting Christmas cards. I don't know why, but he does. Please send him one. And no, I haven't

Received in an Email A well-turned simile is a work of art. A poor simile is, well, pretty funny. Here's a list of 56 similes that were supposedly written by high schoolers [http://bethanyamandamiller.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/the-56-bestworst-analogies-written-by-high-school-

Monday Miscellany I stumbled across this feature last week: The worst nativity sets [http://whyismarko.com/2011/27-worst-nativity-sets-the-annual-growing-list/]. The list is at 27 and, I fear, growing. There are some funny ones over there. Three of my favorites: Montgomery Fellow southern Catholic and

"God does not look for big things--He looks for how much love we put in the giving." Mother Teresa

Congress just lifted a ban on producing and exporting horse meat. Or as Taco Bell put it, “There was a ban on that?” -- Mobile post

Deluge Just Getting Started? Boy, the market boomed yesterday. What caused it? I guess it depends on your perspective. Maybe you think the governments have now coordinated a plan to save the world economy, so the market will improve with the improving world economy. If so, you're naive

Top Bishops If you missed it last week (it was flying around the Catholic blogosphere), there is now a American Catholic Hall of Fame. I'm not clear on when the Hall started, but they inducted their first bishops earlier this month [http://www.thegregorian.org/blog/hall-of-