With everything that's gone on in the past few weeks, it would have been a dream come true for Andre Agassi to win the U.S. Open, but it was always a bit of a pipe dream, and even to take it to Roger Federer as long as he did, very amazing ( Read more... )

Folks -- we need to stand tall and stand up for ourselves ( Read more... )

Well, what do we say ( Read more... )

This is from the most recent issue I have of The Economist. It is about Americans "joining clubs again" after 9/11. If you believe de Tocqueville wasn't smoking freebase cocaine, this is a "must read ( Read more... )

Just wanted to post a few pics here of sites very familiar to me from the area of attack in London in better times. Wish I had a few for you from the Russell Square area, but I didn’t have a digital camera available.


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I’ve actually been looking forward to doing this, and even though I should be working (I just received email instructions from Evan - but I was so glad to hear from him, I honestly don’t care!), I’m going to go with it. I was first tagged by sbroadway and now closh2 has reminded me I need to do this.

1. Total number of books owned?Hundreds. A lot. Ask me how ( Read more... )

I have been reading George Weigel’s biography of Pope John Paul II, and I wanted to take some time to share a reflection I may develop more later that resulted from my inevitable “skipping ahead” (wink ( Read more... )

I was looking forward to what Father Larry would have to say about the Pope this evening. Father Larry is absolute gem; why are we not so fortunate as to have thousands of him? He has a Ph.D in theology and teaches at our local Catholic college; he is an incredibly attractive figure (yes, gfrancie, that way, too) and an very popular campus minister. He ( Read more... )

I got the Charlie Rose interview with King Abdullah II of Jordan in the mail yesterday, and started to watch it then, but my father called, so I started over this evening. It stood up well given my high expectations ( Read more... )

Hmm. The differences between baseball and dog mushing ( Read more... )