Rose Bowl or Sugar Bowl. Discuss.

Things have been ridiculously busy since I last posted, um, forever ago ( Read more... )

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There is a pub across the street from where I work. Sometimes, I head over there and order lunch to take away. I'll sit at the bar, drink a diet cherry coke and wait for about 15 minutes for one of the best hamburgers on the planet. Such is my life ( Read more... )

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What does it avail to know that there is a God,
which you not only believe by Faith,
but also know by reason:
what does it avail that you know Him
if you think little of Him?

Saint Thomas More

Mexican Catholics pray for a World Cup miracleMEXICO CITY (CNS) -- Less than an hour after Mexico won its first World Cup match, worshippers in Mexico City were praying for further success before a statue of the infant Jesus dressed in a soccer uniform. Since at least as far back as 1990, some churches in Mexico have been putting the national team' ( Read more... )

I recently finished Madeline Albright's book, The Mighty and the Almighty which posed some interesting questions about how well the West understands Islam. For example, why is getting the Sunnis and the Shiites to work together in a coalition government so hard? Albirght's correct assumption describes a Western lack of understanding about the ( Read more... )