This morning, I decided to rouse my computer from its long winter’s nap which it had been on since I left for vacation last Saturday. I was thrilled to discover that my monitor was no longer working. Just thrilled. Especially since I bought it only last year, and had been very careful with it since […]

I keep coming back to this topic of universal reconciliation in Christianity - that sooner or later all souls go to Heaven. It’s a very beautiful version of the Christian story, I think - and odd that it’s not more popular (though I’ll come back to that later).
Anyway, it seems that in Catholicism, this idea […]

I had some extremely vivid dreams over vacation. Unfortunately, some time has passed since I had them and a great deal of the details now are gone.
In one of the best and most epic ones, I was a really awesome English teacher. You know, the kind of teacher where everybody is really into it, […]

Good news out of Ohio: if all goes well, soon you’ll be able to be arrested for no reason in public places. Whoopee! Cleveland’s News Channel 5 reports:
CLEVELAND — A bill on Gov. Bob Taft’s desk right now is drawing a lot of criticism, NewsChannel5 reported.
One state representative said it resembles Gestapo-style tactics of government, […]

Over the holiday, I went to see Syriana with a few family members. I’d actually intended to see The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but it was sold out. Nothing else really was playing for a while except Syriana, so we went to see that.
Before I saw it, I’d only been exposed to […]