Not a long post, but I just feel like I should wind up the report at sea. I won’t be at sea much longer. We sail back to New York Harbor and tomorrow morning it’s back to the real world.

Well, so to speak. Getting in to New York City just in time for Halloween may […]

As someone who only accidentally falls into any sort of trendiness, I’m probably unnaturally impressed with myself that I’m sitting in a woodsy, kitschy-cool combination coffee shop and internet cafe in Bar Harbor, Maine. (We non-Yankees on the cruise ship insist on doing the fakey New England accent and calling it “Bah Hahbah” every single […]

After this post of mine about the problems that Halloween poses for us, I felt like I saw a good solution in an article about a local school — I’m sure it must be a Catholic school. They teach about saints during the month of October and then everyone dresses up as their favorite saint […]

I had a weird thought. And my day became strange.

The day always would have been a little intense. I knew I had to be on a 3:25 flight to go meet up with Greg in Philadelphia, and then the next day at 5 we would set sail on our long-awaited, much-anticipated cruise around New England […]

Hooray! A new find on Karl’s list of Ortho-blogs. And Radoje (awfully glad I get to type it and not pronounce it) on this post reminds me of a thought I’ve had on and off: If Bush is elected, will the intense hatred that a small but virulent percentage of Americans feel for Bush hinder […]

Do good Christians do the Halloween thing? It’s a yearly fight at some of the churches I’ve been to.

Fr. Joseph has this excellent series of posts about it that includes an exchange that sound very familiar:
One of my coworkers came and asked me what I had against Halloween. I asked, “Why do we celebrate Christmas?” […]

The problem I’m having these days with mainstream media (MSM) (or legacy media, as a wise man calls it) is that they seem to move like the Borg on to a point and then report on it for a while as if it was they were responding to the Clarion Call of the People, rather […]

If you can’t trust Paul Harvey, who can you trust?

For those of you who don’t know, Paul Harvey is a guy who has done little “lighter side of the news” radio commentary for years and years … well, actually for several centuries. Paul Harvey could solve a lot of history’s mysteries just by casting his […]

I was surprised to find that discussions are still going on about Dr. Bouteneff’s article (with Dr. Bouteneff himself chiming in, so no one needs to worry about him being misrepresented). Those who are tired of hearing about all this will undoubtedly want to give it a miss.

For my own peace of mind, I feel […]

I knew it. They’re talking about putting microchips into people, and folks can’t wait.

So what’s the problem, right? It’s just a thing to help people with complex medical problems get quicker care by being able to communicate more complete and accurate health record information.
I’ve got two problems with this. One is already hinted at if […]