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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Housekeeping details

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

This new blog site, besides being far easier to manage than I thought (though I’m still working out the bugs) allows for other contributors to easily log on and put up stuff of their own. So far I’ve got at least one person who has expressed a willingness to contribute, but so far nothing concrete. […]

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New Real Estate

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

I haven’t seen anything about this in the U.S. Press, though maybe I’ve just missed it, so I’ll pass it along just to spread a little cheer. According to the Independent, there is some new ocean front property available in Greenland: The map of Greenland will have to be redrawn. A new island has appeared […]

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Catholics on the Court

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

I’m so confused. As I said a few days ago, I have a theological degree from Our Lady of Sorrows Grammar School, but even I can’t figure this out. When John Kerry was running for president, Catholic Bishops pretty much threatened him with excommunication for his views on abortion. They made it clear that they […]

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Coming soon to a neighborhood near you

Monday, April 23, 2007

Someone in the Pentagon has a past, or a promising future, on Madison Avenue. The euphemistic heights have been reached, perhaps someday to be equalled, but never to be surmounted. As someone who dabbles in writing I can only doff my hat to the person who came up with the idea of calling the walled […]

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Clinton makes them do it

Monday, April 23, 2007

A look into the mind of a Republican stalwart, local style, in this morning’s Day. One Frank Wolf writes to the Editor to spew venom on the Democrats, ending his screed by taking a shot at the liberal Day (you know, the paper that wanted Bill Clinton’s resignation but can’t see the problem with keeping […]

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Spring Flowers

Monday, April 23, 2007

Still having a bit of trouble posting pictures. They tend to get distorted on the homepage, but appear to do better on the archive pages. I’m going to look around for a plugin to manage them better. Anyway, by way of experiment, here are a couple of pictures of our daffodils, which have finally arrived […]

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Sunday Sermon, or Limbo Redux

Sunday, April 22, 2007

As faithful readers know, I have an advanced degree in theology, having majored in that subject for eight years at Our Lady of Sorrows Grammar School, where I also took the obligatory minor in guilt. Faithful readers might also remember the dire consequences that I predicted would come to pass were Holy Mother Church to […]

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The swallows return

Sunday, April 22, 2007

We live in an old farm house that was built in 1791. It was originally a large farm, and at some point was apparently a working quarry, from which granite was shipped to NYC. At some point, after the granite quarry was probably a distant memory, and much of the original land had been sold […]

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JJB Dinner

Saturday, April 21, 2007

My wife and I went to the JJB Dinner last night. Election year dinners are always better, since the contending candidates load the tables with booty. This year we had to settle for a Chris Dodd bumper sticker. Some of us were a tad miffed by the inclusion, on the invitation, of the name of […]

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A few problems

Friday, April 20, 2007

In the previous post I embedded a youtube, which appears perfectly fine in Safari, the Mac Browser, but is not there at all in Firefox or Internet Explorer. I’m going to work on this, but if anyone has any ideas about how to correct it, I’d love to hear them. For any WordPress users, maybe […]

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