Miscellaneous

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly "You wanna touch my Oscar? It'll light up my life." Hollywood egomaniac becomes convicted rapist. His son faces felony murder charges. . . . more>> [http://nymag.com/news/features/71271/] Operating Thetan VII leaves Scientology because it won't embrace

Slow Thursday There's now an iPhone app for confession [http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2011/02/09/forgive-me-iphone-for-i-have-sinned/] . I might download it, but iPieta [http://www.ipieta.com/] has pretty much everything I need, plus I've added a lot of Catholic

Monday Miscellany Whew. Whatta weekend. Our high school produced The Sound of Music. Abbie (16) was Liesl, Meg (9) played Marta, and Tess (5) played Gretl. On top of that, my son Alex (17) performed the role of Franz, the butler. It was really neat. The kids worked hard for

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly Amway-like network marketing redux. This time, with backing by Donald Trump. And this time, with vitamins. Scam? Or helping people survive the Great Recession? . . . more>> [http://nymag.com/news/business/70831/] That John Travolta character? Or more like the Seinfeld one? Or

Sloping Toward Rush "Ching chong, ching chong cha." That's Rush Limbaugh, imitating the Chinese Communist leader, before launching into a 20-second imitation of the Chinese language . . . an imitation that hasn't sat well with the Left. Link [http://apnews.myway.com/article/20110128/D9L1B1SO0.

My son, crowned at the high school earlier this afternoon.

Catholic Arts and Letters Weekly Athletes like to text and twitter. Why? Because they're dumb jocks. Maybe. . . . more [http://moreintelligentlife.com/content/lifestyle/why-sportmen-text]>> Communists. Cultural Marxists. Progressives. All the same: totalitarians, intent on subjugating the masses. . . . more>> [http://www.americanthinker.com/

Random "Bubble Ball" is the king of the iPod Application universe. It has been downloaded over 2 million times. The developer? A fourteen-year-old boy from Utah [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1348293/Robert-Nay-14-video-game-iPhone-app-Bubble-Boy-downloaded-2m-times.

My family and I are coming there this year. We are in the planning stages. We plan to stay in mid-town Manhattan. Our first question: Will we be able to park our 12-person Econoline van? It's 9-feet high, so parking garages are out of the