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Rick Warren, otherwise generally on target, made this error while speaking at the C. S. Lewis conference. He said, Lord knows why ( Read more... )

from the AP news wire...

Former Southwest Bank employee sentenced to prison

Karen Tallon, 39, of St. Louis, has been sentenced to 12 months in prison and must pay restitution of $116,200. She pleaded guilty late last year to one felony count of embezzlement.

Karen (my wife) is featured on this site as a part of a creepy essay on classical beauty.

Florida to Costa Rica --->

Where my computer and flip flops were stolen. My computer was recovered, but my flip flops were not.

---> Costa Rica to Florida ---> Florida to Kentucky --->

Where Andy and I saw Sin City (3/13). Where Marshall got married. Where I pushed Jerry Walls in the pool, in his tux. And where King James crashed the ( Read more... )

...In 1300 AD the foundation was granted to the Cistercian abbey of Tintern in Wexford.

...In 1323 AD Edmond Butler Rector of Tullow slew Philip Tallon, his son, and others and burned the church along with men, women and children, also the relics of St Moling...

updating from the breakfast room at the Residence Inn: using wonderful wi-fi. We head for the Lauderdale Airport in an hour - then to Costa Rica - or, as they say in Spring Break-type lingo, "Costa."

The week after this one, on Tuesday, we will head for Kentucky, for Marshall's wedding.

On the 24th, I head for Oxford - where this debate-type ( Read more... )

War of the WorldsThe ten-second plot synopsis is this: Cruise, hard-working everyman, and less-than-perfect father, bonds with his kids over a long weekend of intergalactic genocide. The ten-second review runs as follows: The War of the Worlds is no Independence Day - and that’s not a compliment ( Read more... )

...the argument against smoking (and drinking) often takes the form of the old “boiling a frog” argument. That argument rests on the idea that a frog, if placed in a boiling pot, will jump out. But if the water’s heat is increased by degrees, the frog will sit and cook ( Read more... )

Karen and I arrived (finally) Thursday afternoon. We vacated Atlantis on Tuesday, spending a leisurely afternoon and evening in the Marriot near the Airport. Then the flight the next morning. EDI --> MAN, MAN --> IAD, and in Dulles (an appropriate name for such a lousy airport) we sat on our plane for 3 hours, before the flight was canceled ( Read more... )