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Things will be brief this morning. One of my evenings freed up, so I took the four oldest children to see The Nativity Story. I liked it. It dragged a little in the middle, but it brought together three strands--Mary/Joseph, Herod, and the three wise men--in a nice little

More troubles with Sears. Remember my statement yesterday: "The smart money, incidentally, says he doesn't show up with the necessary part"? Well, that's what happened. My wife waited at home from 8:00 until 3:30. The fix-it guy showed up and said he

I like Sears. I've never read about them donating to gay rights groups or doing anything else objectionable. But I don't like their service. Awhile back, I bought an elliptical exercise machine from them. Constant problems for the first month. Those finally got fixed and it

Harsh college football weekend. Congratulations to Florida, but shame on the BCS voters who had no intention of letting UM play for the national championship three weeks ago when they voted them number 2. Does anyone really think Florida would've moved ahead of Michigan, if USC hadn'

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I saved the best for second: Mark Steyn's obituary in The Atlantic Monthly. It's the best regular feature in the magazine, and in the December issue he has cranked out his best one: funny, anecdote-filled, disconcerting, with a Catholic kicker at the end. It's

Ah, my favorite weekend of the year has ended. Most sad indeed. But I have Cyber Monday to perk me up. Today is the one of the biggest online shopping days of the year. People go to their offices and shop online. I think I'll pass. I have

Ah, peaceful Saturday morning. It is the Saturday of Eric (not to be confused with the Summer of George [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Summer_of_George_(Seinfeld_episode)], but dang close to the same thing). What's on my schedule today? Blog, buy a CD organizer, read,

Another late evening for me, and there's not much blogging material out there. I found this humorous, though [http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2006/November/theworld_November666.xml&section=theworld] : > A spurned Malaysian woman is taking legal action against her former lover,