Disappointing
(…from the UL) The audit on the NH’s Roman Catholic diocese’s sex abuse policy is finally released with some progress shown, but a ways left to go. "The church said it did not agree with some of the findings of the audit, but ‘our priority is to protect children, and we have made significant progress […]
I Am Not Grizzly Adams, And I’m Okay With That
Good to be done with this moving thing, good to be done with transitions (however good they were in and of themselves!) and be fully landed back in the Granite State again. And good to have a house with a fireplace. It’s a longtime dream and harkens back to fond memories of my first home […]
The Limits Of Cameraphones and Memories
I went and stood in the snow on the hillside, an overgrown old night pasture, above the old place this afternoon. Kris, her mom and the kids had left at noon and I stayed to make another trip to the dump, clean a little more, read the electric meter, and, in the morning, sign some […]
Questioning The ‘Common Knowledge’ That Video Games Rot Kids’ Brains
At three, David loves video games. Heck, Sofia at nearly two loves them — especially if Dora is involved, as on the Nick Jr. games site. (We’ll get to whether I’m a bad dad for exposing kids of that tender an age to even the most benign video games and computer keyboards later — or […]
The Nine Suggestions
In Mass today the readings included the 10 commandments (Ex 20:1-17), and I was struck by how upside down they seem. I mean, the whole first half of them (just about) include things that even non-secularized Christian or Jewish Americans know are no longer particularly important, and you have to read almost halfway through in […]
On The Religion of Comic Book Characters…
Superman a Methodist? Batman an Episcopalian and lapsed Catholic? Green Arrow a liberal Marxist Communist atheist? Here’s an interesting list from adherents.com that breaks down the religion of major comic book characters, as well as some supervillains and supporting characters. Not having read comic books (much) since I was a bit younger, I am limited […]