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December 2012

December 28, 2012

The Feast of the Holy Innocents

Never part of the Church year that was helpful to Hallmark greeting cards, or Madison Avenue...

December 27, 2012

Rest in Peace General Schwarzkopf

General Schwarzkopf died. The Patton of my generation, he was the last famous war hero....

December 27, 2012

Most ingenious nativity set!

Back at the beginning of Advent, Mark Shea posted a hilarious take on some of...

December 27, 2012

Ah Vivaldi

Who doesn't love Vivaldi's The Four Seasons? Yet, after all these years, and despite a...

December 27, 2012

Everything you need to know about Christmas

But most today get wrong. Certainly if you get your information from the MS or...

December 27, 2012

Where are my commas?

Or other punctuation marks? Will be busy today shoveling out of the snows that gave...

December 26, 2012

Connecticut Police Officers show the meaning of Christmas

And teach us post-Boomer cynics not to be too quick to judge everything else. Just...

December 25, 2012

The Christ is born!

Alleluia! Embrace the babe in the manger. All other priorities come next. Merry Christmas to...

December 24, 2012

Merry Christmas from my family to yours

With a final throw-out tribute to the man whose rendition of O Holy Night kept...

December 24, 2012

Christmastime is almost here

I've long said that the image of the Wise Men traversing the nighttime deserts is...

December 23, 2012

Christmas is on the 25th of December this year

I just thought I'd throw that out there, since we've been watching stores minimize their...

December 23, 2012

Thomas McDonald unpacks the Coventry Carol

And makes quite a few good points in the process. The emphasis is, of course,...

December 21, 2012

Things like this make me wish we had intergalactic space travel

But then I'm usually skittish about going to a new town. What in the world...

December 21, 2012

Fr. Barron addresses Newtown and The Hobbit

And the two clips fit together. Gave me quite a bit to think about as...

December 21, 2012

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

At least in terms of weather. October was pretty chilly, but then things got mild...

December 21, 2012

That’s weird

Photos of complete strangers who are almost identical. Really, check it out here. I noticed that...

December 20, 2012

Speaking of a culture of violence

I can't help but think about our over-the-top rhetoric that is used to censor traditional...

December 20, 2012

World economies cow style

Thomas McDonald has an informative list explaining how different economic structures work. It's from F. Paul...

December 20, 2012

Simply having a wonderful Christmastime

Even with things being tight, we've managed to pluck out a decent Advent season. No...

December 20, 2012

Rachel Maddow reminds me

Of the level of contempt and hatred emanating from the American Left. Robert Bork died yesterday. That's...

December 18, 2012

The New York Jets would rather lose a season than start Tebow

Ever since his ill-fated decision to stand against the Liberal Status Quo, Tebow has been...

December 17, 2012

The Church of hate manages to lower themselves

Their hate is the hate we witnessed Friday, manifested differently and with less reasoning. The...

December 17, 2012

Prayers still with Newtown

Here is an emerging list of the victims along with pictures. I can't read through...

December 16, 2012

Fun and forgetting at The Nutcracker

Almost a year ago, before my wife's income was severed by a computer program in...

December 15, 2012

To the victims and their families

December 14, 2012

Dear God be with the victims and their families at Sandy Hook Elementary School

Horrifying. Simply horrifying. I can do nothing other than hear my heart break for those...

December 12, 2012

You have to admit, it is clever

December 12, 2012

Just for the fun of it

Sometimes things are crazy, and right now some weird flu like but not quite flu virus has...

December 12, 2012

Note to miss the last super-date for a while

It's 12: 12 12-12-12

December 10, 2012

What I’m reading: 1066

For no particular reason, thought I'd throw this out. I'm actually reading many things, as...