Miscellaneous

Noteworthy Freebie Highly recommended: A free online book against abortion: 101 Girls Guide.Com [http://www.101girlsguide.com/]. The author, Serena Gaefke, has gathered together a wide assortment of quotes and passages from pro-choice literature, thereby revealing their insidious agenda and mendacious methods. I've read a handful

Twitter Even though Senator Brown seems content with Roe v. Wade [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Brown_%28politician%29#Abortion], he does have a soft spot for Catholic nuns: Senator Scott Brown, a protestant, raised money for an order of Cistercian Catholic nuns in Wrentham. Brown has a special

Twitter Tebow severely disappointed me ("disgusted me" might be more accurate) with his crying at the end of Florida's loss to Alabama in the SEC Championship game, but his heart and head are in the right spot: He's going to appear in a pro-

Gosh, Give Me a Break As people get older, they get more serious. That seems to be the general consensus. That was my opinion . . . until I got older. When I was younger, I would wring my hands over all sorts of things, but now I'm much more inclined

Val-de-ri Val-de-ra This article [http://money.cnn.com/2009/09/25/news/economy/Americans_on_the_move/index.htm?section=money_latest] says Americans are taming their wanderlust. I find that highly doubtful. It's a lamentable trait, but one that has marked American since

Long Weekend Another weekend, another weekend spent. This one, in Frankenmuth, the annual Summer Music Festival. It's a nice-enough weekend, but I feel like the impecunious father who spends a lot of money on a flat-screen TV for his kids. Nice gesture, yes, and his kids

Calling Aesop Compelling piece from Time Magazine [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html]: > As they review the bizarre and unpredictable weather pattern of the past several years, a growing number of scientists are beginning to suspect that many seemingly contradictory meteorological fluctuations are

Kind Me One of the neatest online articles I've read all year: Good Times: What's the use in being kind? A host of benefits, it turns out. [http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article07080901.aspx] I read two highly-interesting asides ("There's an entire

Tuesday Twitter Revenge of the Fallen Last week, my older children and their cousins and uncles went to a late showing of Transformers II. Even though I liked the first movie, I stayed behind because (i) they wouldn't get back until almost midnight, which is almost two hours

Twitter Monday Some weekends get away. That was mine. Between two evening baseball games, a high school graduation, and a wicked hangover Saturday morning (brought on by a mere two beers--is there no justice?), I entered Sunday evening with nothing in mind for Monday's post. I scoured