Top Gear may just be the best directed show on television. Charismatic hosts, phenomenal cinematography, and some of the coolest damned concepts for segments that I’ve ever seen. Anywhere.
Since I don’t have TV, I just watch some of the best bits on YouTube. This time, it’s all about the flippin’ sweetest car in the universe, [...]

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As anyone who knows me will tell you, I’m not really into sports. I played basketball for a few years because my parents forced me. I was horrible. I never took an interest in baseball. Then, my freshman year of high school, I decided I wanted to go out for football. Football had always been [...]

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This one, at least, takes a critical look at the trend toward sexy costumes for young girls. Sadly, it’s indicative of the ignorance many parents have about the culture their children are growing up in: 
For Cheryl Cirenza, that’s what Halloween is still all about. But for her daughter, she’s not so sure. “I really don’t know [...]

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The Bush Administration wants a new, deep-penetrating bunker-buster bomb known as the Massive Ordinance Penetrator (MOP).
No word yet on when they will admit that this is for Iran.

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Paul Krugman of the New York Times has a piece on “fearmongering” and the war posturing regarding Iran.
I’m not a Krugman reader. Don’t really know who he is. I looked him up, and it appears that he’s an economist. Clearly his specialization doesn’t help him in this article, because he appears to have no natural defense [...]

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“In Modesto, California today crowds turned out for the annual Modesto County Ninja Parade, which once again passed through town entirely undetected.”

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Just a guess, but I think we’re going to start seeing more stories like this one about Padre Pio and the question of the authenticity of his stigmata.
After all, it’s not as if we don’t know what’s coming:
 1 And I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon [...]

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I picked up a bottle of Kilda Shiraz 2005 from a store called Balducci’s in McClean, Virginia, after the noon-o’-clock high Mass at Fr. McAfee’s today. At $5.99, I thought any South Eastern Australia Shiraz was worth a try.
I was right.
This is a nice wine, a bit on the earthy side (the Shiraz wines I [...]

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I’m happy to announce, after a long absence, that Hilary is back.

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I’m sitting in a taqueria in Gaithersburg, MD, waiting for the passenger window to get fixed on my van.
Why?
Because we made the long trip to Baltimore to go to an extraordinary rite baptism of the son of two of my friends from college. As an added bonus, another good friend of mine, now a transitory [...]

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