e will be seven in march. a just turned four. they are the "big kids" who go to school. they are in coats and ready for carpool by 7.45 in the morning. school starts at nine. they commute to the next county, about 45 minutes or so away. school ends at four. they both get home any time between five a...

tomorrow is little a's fourth birthday. so he'll be going to school with his cupcakes, apple juice and animal crackers packed away for his little class party. and i'll miss it, since mommies don't get to go to the class party. and because i have an empty house, i cannot see myself throwing a family ...

More broadly, Griffiths sheds light on the difficulty we all face as the generation after the generation after Vatican II. For a long time now, critique has reigned supreme, and “orthodoxy� has been an empty standard in academic theology. Alyssa Lyra Pitstick’s trenchant analysis of Hans Urs v...

It’s not official quite yet, but the iPhone App Store is live and you can download version 2.0 of the iPhone software - which is all you need to run the 552 applications currently available. We’ve been gathering videos and overviews of many of the applications and have held them until no...

Filed under: PC, Meta (about Joystiq) Wow. We have had tons of news, downloads and new content for Big Download this week . . .and that's just for Diablo III. Let's take a look at the highlights for the past week. Exclusive Features Games for Windows Press Conference : We attend Microsoft's press ev...

What gets me is that there are assholes out there who manage to get funding to pull this sort of stunt, when there are hundreds, if not thousands of folks who are working on mods and indie games that would KILL to have even a share of their funding that can’t even get a publisher to pick up th...

here is the list of things that are pissing me off right now:1. idiot sellers who don't get that the american housing market sucks right now and think they can get whatever price they want for crap2. idiot sellers who live near unbuilt synagogues who want to rip off jews by overcharging them to live...

Times headline update: from "weighting" a resignation this morning to "expecting" same this afternoon to "HOW MUCH DID YOU PAY TO FUCK AROUND WITH US FOR TWO DAYS, ELIOT?"...

..and what of the souls trapped in limbo? Those who do not seem to deserve hell, yet cannot find the path to heaven? I don't mean to imply that I feel trapped nor lost, because I really don't.. Well maybe a little lost, but I doubt that I'm alone there. Whether we know the path or not we are all how...