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February 2013

February 01, 2013

BREAKING NEWS: USCCB to Think About HHS Amendment Sanely and Without the Advice of Drudge, Huff Post, or Alike

February 1, 2013 --- In a shocking press release, United States Conference of Bishops made...

January 2013

January 29, 2013

Space, and not being smart in an e-mail.

Sorry, readers. The end of the month is usually the time when I'm trying to...

January 20, 2013

A Tale of Three Cubicles (full length)

Part One I was first assigned to the beam-cutting station, but I asked to be...

January 15, 2013

“One Pop Harem,” a bedtime story by Sam and Sam

Another "former student and present friend" (I've been blessed with several of them) and I...

January 13, 2013

A Tale of Three Cubicles, Part III

Part I Part II The opening details are mostly unimportant. The hiring process was convoluted...

January 10, 2013

A Tale of Three Cubicles, Part II

Part I. Bilingual Benefits Representative. That seemed pretty good. What was it? Target Corporation, corporate...

January 04, 2013

New Year’s Eve

I spent New Year's Eve with a buddy from college. We weren't super close while...

January 04, 2013

Would you subscribe to an e-mail? Should you pay for it?**

In the early nineties, my Father started a non-profit organization to support our family's ministry. Missionary...

December 2012

December 18, 2012

A Quiet Joy, I Suppose

The easy excuse is "I've been grading." But it's not true. I write most when...

November 2012

November 26, 2012

Notre Dame and Its Rather Silly Catholic Malcontents

Notre Dame is the premiere Catholic institution of higher education and research in the United...

November 16, 2012

A Proper Blog Post: Writing, Biology, Political Theory

I've made a full recovery from yesterday's outburst. I clarified a few things in comments and...

November 02, 2012

I Miss My Brother: A Sports Memoir

ESPN is the world's best worst psychic. Always looking ahead to the next story, inventing...

October 2012

October 10, 2012

We Be, Big Pimpin’ Catholics Down in US of A: The Democrat and Republican Exploitation of Catholics

Certain anti-Catholic Protestants like to claim that the Catholic Church is the "Whore of Babylon,"...

October 05, 2012

Hola! Waves, Oceans, Tragedy

The huffing "h" sound in the Spanish word 'hola' is silent, as a general rule....