Nov
30
Shut up and play
November 30, 2008 | Comments Off
So losing Plaxico Burress didn’t exactly hurt the Giants, now did it? Once again the G-men took care of business, and in turn made it possible to listen to the radio here in DC tomorrow. In fact, Manning seems to excel without his primary weapon in the lineup. As was the case when Shockey was [...]
Nov
29
Oh, there’s got to be more to this story. Plaxico Burress’ controversial year has just taken a turn for the worse. The New York Giants wide receiver accidentally shot himself in the leg on Friday night, FOXSports.com has learned, not long after being ruled out of Sunday’s game against the Redskins with a hamstring injury. [...]
Nov
28
What’s the difference?
November 28, 2008 | 4 Comments
Listening to the local sports (!) talk show and I just heard the familiar refrain: hunting with guns is not really hunting. Oh no. Only hunting that involves bow and arrow really counts as hunting. Somehow it’s more fair for the animals. Why? I didn’t realize that when one hunted with bow and arrow that [...]
Nov
28
Helloo – ooh – oh?
November 28, 2008 | 2 Comments
For the first time since moving to the area, I stayed in the DC region for Thanksgiving, and went to work the day after. There is no one around here. It looks like that scene towards the end of the Devil’s Advocate where Keanu is about to confront his “dad.” I had a train car [...]
Nov
27
Happy Thanksgiving
November 27, 2008 | Comments Off
May you all have a blessed Thanksgiving.
Nov
26
Terrorist attack in India
November 26, 2008 | 1 Comment
This is awful. Terror struck the country’s financial capital late on Wednesday night as coordinate serial explosions and indiscriminate firing rocked eight areas across Mumbai including the crowded CST railway station, two five star hotels–Oberoi and Taj– leaving 16 persons dead and 50 injured. Armed with AK-47 rifles and grenades, a couple of terrorists entered [...]
Nov
26
Majoring in fluff
November 26, 2008 | 8 Comments
Can we homeschool our kids through college? The reason I ask is because of this post from the Cranky Prof. I cursed out loud in a faculty meeting. Once again, the barbarians are rattling the gates of Rome! The subject on the table: creating a for-credit, interdisciplinary seminar around fan fiction stemming from books and [...]
Nov
26
Taking a stand
November 26, 2008 | 3 Comments
This past Sunday the second collection was taken up for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD), an organization that has provided ACORN with over $7 million in donations this past decade. Fellow parishioners had very different reactions to the second collection. First, Morning’s Minion: Upon leaving Mass at St. Matthew’s Cathedral in Washington DC [...]
Nov
25
From one anti-religion bigot to another
November 25, 2008 | 1 Comment
John Derbyshire has gotten together with fellow agnostic/atheistic/secular whatever conservatives to create a new blog. As thoroughly fascinating as this blog will no doubt prove to be, I don’t think quoting Thomas Jefferson is really a way to convince other conservatives that you’re onto anything particularly insightful about conservatism.
Nov
25
The politics of Bond
November 25, 2008 | Comments Off
One thing I left out of my review of the latest Bond film were the silly geopolitics of the flick. It’s the first Bond film where the US is, in some degree, the bad guy. It’s bad enough to have the Bourne series (which, as I understand, completely distorts the main plot of the books), [...]
Nov
24
Quantum of Solace
November 24, 2008 | 3 Comments
Let’s start with the good stuff. Daniel Craig is James Bond. To put it another way, Daniel Craig is James Bond as Ian Fleming wrote the character. The closest actor to get to that original design had been Timothy Daulton, but he was about ten years too late to the series, and he was stuck [...]
Nov
24
Behold: Jim Carrey’s pores
November 24, 2008 | Comments Off
My wife and I made the plunge this week and bought a flat-screen television. I’m sure the friends who helped us move three weeks ago are pleased that we bought such a light television after they helped us move our soon-to-be museum piece television. Sorry guys. It’s certainly a great picture, but I’ve always thought [...]
Nov
24
Start spreading the news
November 24, 2008 | 6 Comments
Some Tennessee Titans fans have grumbled because the Giants have consistently been ranked ahead of the Titans on the (albeit meaningless) power rankings put out by football journalists. Well, Titans fans, you can stop grumbling now, because we just learned that they’re not even as good as the other New York football team either. I [...]
Nov
21
Christianity without Culture
November 21, 2008 | Comments Off
Every now and then I read something that makes me appreciate the internet. It’s rare, but it happens. Fr. Neuhaus’s On the Square post from today marks one of those occurences. It’s a tremendous essay, and I will simply re-post the closing argument. But please do read the whole thing. Babylon cannot be transformed into [...]
Nov
20
Dante didn’t write about this
November 20, 2008 | 9 Comments
I have been to hell, and it is a benefits explanation meeting.
Nov
20
Read past the headline (Updated)
November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments
One of the more annoying things about the blogosphere is the inability or unwillingness of people to fully read posts before they fly off the handle and attack other people. It’s not something necessarily confined to the blogosphere, but I think that tendency is exacerabated by the medium. Case in point: Instapundit links to a [...]
Nov
19
Which side is intrusive?
November 19, 2008 | Comments Off
A commenter at Right-Wing News provides a nice counter-balance to the “throw the socons under the bus” crowd. I’m hardly the most religious guy you’d ever want to meet. My last church service was my wedding, some four years ago. And that was a Unitarian service. Really, my main concern in politics is maintaining my [...]
Nov
19
Hope and change more of the same
November 19, 2008 | 1 Comment
Hey, remember how all those Catholic Democrats kept telling us how it was totally cool to vote for the pro-abortion Barack Obama? You know, there were all those proportionate reasons related to the economy and especially the Iraq War and torture that justified such a seeming repudiation of pro-life values? Is it too early to [...]
Nov
19
Oogedy-boogedy?
November 19, 2008 | 6 Comments
It seems that Eugene Robinson has some company for worst op-ed writer for the Washington Post. Now, it would be all to easy to ridicule this latest entry from Kathleen Parker – and that’s precisely why I am about to do it. As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook [...]
Nov
18
Half-Blood Prince Trailer
November 18, 2008 | 1 Comment
Awesome. Can’t wait to see it this weekend. Oh, that’s right. It’s been pushed back to the summer. By the time they get done with this series Daniel Radcliffe’s kid is going to be able to play the part of Harry.