Unfortunately for those of my friends who favor music over literature, this post is not about the Fall Out Boy song (or even the Carpenters' one from the bell bottom days) but rather a review of Ian McEwan's novel, SATURDAY ( Read more... )

Well so much for me updating this more often. It's been too crazy at school lately. Here I am in the midst of finals already ( Read more... )

November is definitly the shortest month of all.  Tomorrow's Thanksgiving (and I'm not really looking forward to it all that much) and then just another week of classes.  I really need to get it together and stay focused--I'm almost halfway through law school. Wow.

The breakdown of when Thanksgiving occurs this year is really messing with me. My finals are sooner than the rest of the university's, and are less than a month away.  After today, I have only 7 hours of classes left for BA, Con Law, and International Law (each), and 9 hours left for Evidence.  30 hours of classes in about 2 1/2 weeks (more or less ( Read more... )

Marriage is the union of two people for one purpose. This purpose is not limited to simply having children, or the entire structure of marriage would be different. That may be one common purpose, but another and just as important is the mutual enrichment.  But why should this take the form of "marriage," as that involves the "promised permanence ( Read more... )

Yesterday morning I had the opportunity to attend part of a marriage conference being hosted at the school.  The primary speaker was a man giving a presentation entitled "Why Get Married? The Adventure of Promised Permanence ( Read more... )

Yesterday was my 25th birthday. I'm old and respectable now, I suppose.

It was a good one, and I look forward to many more.

            This is in response to a colleague’s letter, Nathan Howard, regarding radical Christianity and Islam.  Respectfully, his response to Pete Barron’s letter is irrational.
            There is a difference between the “reason” why something occurs and the “excuse” for which it is justified.  I say this to rebut his inference that President ( Read more... )

Pat Robertson just endorsed Rudy Giuliani? The world's upside down. I guess every man has his thirty pieces of silver ( Read more... )

My niece/goddaughter turns one year old today! What a difference one year can make ( Read more... )