In a stunning loss “Brokeback Mountain did not win a single SAG award last night. Those two guys really got shafted. Someone really stuck it to them didn’t they?
Everybody is still talking about Kobe Bryant’s 81 points. Kobe was asked if this will hurt his relationship with the other Lakers? Kobe said, [...]
Remind me of this, if they ever decide to name a battleship after me:
San Francisco wants to turn a portion of the battleship Iowa into museum that tells the story of minorities in the military, including lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender troops.
GK Chesterton once said that some things can’t be reasoned with. Instead, you simply have to stomp on them with your heel. I say a similar thing: You can’t reason about some things. You just have to vomit on them. From Britain:
Transsexuals who have yet to have a sex-change operation will be entitled to two [...]
Polyamory is the nonpossessive, honest, responsible and ethical philosophy and practice of loving multiple people simultanously. Polyamory emphasizes consciously choosing how many partners one wishes to be involved with rather than accepting social norms which dictate loving only one person at a time. Polyamory is an umbrella term which [...]
I’ll be you $25 that the next nominee ain’t Catholic. Heck, I’ll give you 5-to-1 odds.
This won’t reverse Roe, by the way, but it might stop gay marriage from spreading through the judiciary. The gays can take their fight to the polls. All power to them, just as long as I have the right [...]
Interesting: On-line “book” (chronology) regarding Kennedy’s manslaughter of Mary Jo Kopechne. I can’t vouch for its accuracy, but a quick read indicates they’re not whitewashing the Wizard of the Senate Judiary Committee.
The Smithsonian Institution’s Board of Regents yesterday announced that a new museum dedicated to black history will be built near the Washington Monument within the next 10 years.
Link.
I couldn’t really care less about the museum, but the whole discussion about the National Mall (the rectangle that houses the Washington Monument, the Capitol Building, [...]
So here I am facing another Minnesota winter, looking to expand my mind. Naturally, I turn to ‘The Winter & Spring 2006 Community Education Catalog’ of the Eden Prairie, Minn., public schools, where I see the very first course offering is: “‘Da Vinci Code Historical Seminar — Did you find the historical events in [...]
I missed this yesterday. I’m assuming it was all over the Catholic blogosphere, but I couldn’t make my daily cyber-trip yesterday:
The Vatican may have found the “miracle” they need to put the late Pope John Paul one step closer to sainthood — the medically inexplicable healing of a French nun with the same Parkinson’s disease [...]
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