A friend of mine just started a new position with a church.  The Sr. Pastor wanted him to read Working the Angles: The Shape of Pastoral Integrity by Eugene Peterson.  So, I lent him my copy.  He just gave it back, and I decided to re-read it.  It has been nearly a decade since I read this book....

A Los Angeles clinic is offering the ultimate in designer babies. Want a son with brown eyes black hair and a dark complexion? Or a paleskinned blonde greeneyed daughter?...

  Chadbourne e' il piu' eccentrico ed eterodosso dei solisti creativi. Contaminato dai miraggi e dagli incubi della civilta' psichedelica, erede della musica totale di Zappa e del musical politico dei Fugs, ma immerso fino al collo nella "trash culture" dei punk, ha coniat...

That was the question posed by the source who sent this. Why, yes. Yes it does. Corona del Mar (Orange County, CA) drama teacher Ron Martin reports that his principal canceled a student production of the Tony and Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Rent because it includes gay characters. Principal Fal A...

I’m going to be in Eugene, OR today to see Paul Gertner’s magic lecture. Paul’s a very creative magician, most famous for his cups and balls routine performed with loud, clanking steel balls. It’s not an effect that translates all that well to TV, but if you’d like to t...

I have a new job! I'm working as a general get 'er done guy at a cartographic library/museum. That means maps, son, and don't you forget it. Actually, this institution is a division of the university library where I have worked for the past 7 years or so, so I'm still swimming in the same pool, ya m...

So, I just finished viewing the first two episodes of Delocated , the new live-action series on [adult swim] about a family in the witness protection program that “delocates” to NYC to star in a reality show. The series’ creator and and star is funnyman Jon Glaser, best known for h...

Living in Missouri, it's easy to be disheartened by the fact that you share a state with people 51% of whom were ready to transfer the Bush economy-hole-diggin' shovel to John McCain and Sarah Palin. But for any resident of the Show-Me State looking for a sign that we've done something right lately,...

I have a show on Sydney radio station FBI 94.5 and every week they ask a presenter to come up with a short list of things to check. This week, it’s me. LISTENING to D.N.E. I love Eugene Carchesio’s take on this world. In Someone’s Universe, his show at the Brisbane gallery of moder...

CVSTOS FIDEI FRIDAY EDITION Card. Castrillon: Bp. Fellay 'Recognizes Vatican II' - Damian Thompson, Hly Smk SSPX Reconciliation By February 2nd? - Fr. Johhn Zuhlsdorf, WDTPRS? ...excellent SSPX updates by Fr. John Zuhlsdorf ... ...more SSPX updates from Britain's Catholic Herald, analysis by Fr. Z ....