Current Affairs

If you think Prince's phallic shadow at the Super Bowl halftime show [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250581,00.html] was coincidental, you didn't listen to much Prince back in the 1980s. I find if funny, in the sense that the whole halftime show

Charter Communications has gone down again at my house and my neighbor's house, but it's fine at the office. Junk service, but I've gotten some decent stuff around this morning: Border agent convicted of crime and put in prison. Hispanic inmates beat him silly

Is 2007 the year of the puritan devil? I'm a little scared. Here's the deal: During January, I have drank beer or wine six times, anywhere from two to five drinks. Each time, I woke up the next morning with a hangover. Nothing nasty, just a

Odd feast day today: The Conversion of St. Paul. It's odd because it's an event. The major feasts (Christmas, Easter, etc.) are also events, but most non-obligatory feast days are saint feast days (St. John, St. Thomas, St. John Kennedy [for my Boston readers], etc.). Wrote

There's some pretty good stuff out there this morning: Microsoft has been caught trying to pay a blogger to edit its Wikipedia entry [http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070123/ap_on_hi_te/microsoft_wikipedia]. It's no crime, and there are no allegations that the

Sadness in the golden years [http://www.usatoday.com/money/perfi/retirement/2007-01-22-senior-debt-usat_x.htm?csp=34] : > Retirement used to be a time for people to enjoy life without a mortgage or high credit card bills, a time when heavy debts were mostly a thing of the past. Increasingly,

Off to the drinking club last night with Marie for drinks and dinner. While there, we also sold a few Mardi Gras tickets for our children's upcoming parochial school Mardi Gras party. Then we came home for a family movie night. A pleasant evening, but Saturday morning feels

Long day at the office yesterday, followed by two tall ones at the drinking club, then home to watch the American Idol season premier. I told the guys at the drinking club that I had to head home to watch AI, and they said I was violating a man law.

What do a Michigan State student and an Ohio State student have in common? They both applied to the University of Michigan. With that, you know where I stand on today's game, which arguably has the best "credentials" of all time: big-time rivalry [http://library.osu.