So quotes Vicki Schieber, anti-death penalty advocate, mother of rape/murder victim Shannon Schieber and the host of Theology on Tap this evening.

I am so tired of TV, but I don't have the energy for anything else!!!!  So far I have watched:

All 14 episodes of Firefly
Back to the Future II
The Royal Tenenbaums
Sleepless in Seattle
An Officer and a Gentleman
The Two Towers (Extended Edition)
The Return of the King (Extended Edition)
Three episodes of Brideshead Revisited

I have [finally] bid farewell to my blue 1989 Camry, wonderful reliable car though it was.  Hello red 2009 Tacoma!


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Pro-active measures (e.g. exercising, cleaning, praying, reading, visiting friends)
Pros: Nearly always effective
Cons: Require expenditure of substantial energy

Passive measures (e.g. idle channel/web surfing, playing inane video games, drinking)
Pros: Easy, nearly effortless
Cons: Don't work

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I'm not liking how, as I get older, everyone I know seems to budget their time out in advance.  I'm still up for impromptu adventures...what happened to everyone else??

At some point on Friday night my wallet was stolen.  I said my customary prayer to Saint Anthony before I went out to retrace my steps the next day.  He must have been feeling mischievous - after exhausting the possibilities for finding my wallet, I discovered an orphaned cell phone lying on the ground.  As I was holding it (trying in vain to ( Read more... )

Obama: Cutting Tax Deductions On Wealthy Charity Donations Right Thing To Do

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones)--President Barack Obama signaled Tuesday he wouldn't back down in seeking to raise the wealthiest Americans' taxes in order to pay for his substantial domestic policy agenda.

He said he still believed that a proposal included in his budget request to ( Read more... )

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Nigh and nigh draws the chase, With unperturbèd pace,
Deliberate speed, majestic instancy ; And past those noisèd Feet A Voice comes yet more fleet --
"Lo ! naught contents thee, who content'st not Me."

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Whom wilt thou find to love ignoble thee, Save Me, save only Me ?
All which I took from thee I did but take, Not for thy harms,
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