In yet another gesture of atonement for a lifetime of misdeeds, I eschewed spending Friday night behind a Guinness and in front of the TV watching the NCAA Regionals and instead hung with about a half-dozen other guys and approximately 600 women, including my younger daughter, listening to Helen Thomas deliver the keynote address at the Women in [...]
Entries from March 2008
March 30, 2008
michael & ann want y’all to have a happy easter
Our 2008 Easter card. From us. To you. Here’s our 2007 card. And 2006. And 2002. As the photos will indicate, I have, over the course of the past year, abandoned my former adherence to a rather strict and obviously sanguinary Catholicism and reverted back to a free-wheeling neo-paganism. There were, as is usually case, scattered epiphanies of greater and [...]
March 26, 2008
the crucified christ wants your ass out of the armchair and into the streets
How we celebrated Holy Week in Boston:
There was a fifth-year commemoration of the start of the war on Boston Common on Wednesday. On a grim, rainy-snowy day. About a hundred people bothered to show.
Not a single politician, of course.
They never do.
Something I’ll have to keep in mind come November.
Seeing as how few bodies are at these [...]
March 23, 2008
barney frank says ya got to legaliiiiize it
Here in the Gomorrah of the North, where activist judges have enshrined Sodomie as a fundamental human right, thereby leading the Citizens of the Commonweal down the broad way towards sanctifying all manner of abominable relationships, the godless libertines have presented the Legislature with 80,000 signatures supporting an initiative demanding that possession of less than an [...]
