"Most Catholics take a flexible view of the church's teachings on sexuality. They use birth control -- how else could Italy, Spain and Poland have among the lowest birthrates in the world? They divorce and remarry, use condoms to prevent STDs, undergo in vitro and other banned fertility treatments and even have abortions. Yet there were the bishops ( Read more... )

Trader Vics is now a swanky poolside lounge with $14 cocktails, rather than the cheesy tiki bar with $14 cocktails that it used to be.
schmecky's recent Beverly Hills restaurant review“Some have suggested our new sound will be influenced by the current popular music trends. Our fans will be pleased to know that it’s still 1989 to us: Bush is president, the ( Read more... )

Please tell me my dad and I aren't the only ones who are picking our jaws up off the floor when we hear that JUSTICE is less important than LOYALTY:

D. Kyle Sampson, who abruptly resigned as chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on March 1, will testify that the eight federal prosecutors were fired last year because they did not ( Read more... )

My parents own a Honda Odyssey and a Civic hybrid. The Odyssey was our family's first non-American (non-Ford) car, when Dad really got disgusted with Ford. Being the weirdos they are, they bought the minivan AFTER I left for college, but that's how they work. It's an awesome car and we're really happy with Honda overall, hence the Civic hybrid ( Read more... )

"If you drive 40 they act like you're destroying the progress of Western Civilization." My Dad explaining the technical speed limit and the recommended actual speed on Douglas Pike, during the rush hour when all the people late for work at Fidelity and other yuppie Smithfield places of business are trying to get to work. He was telling Madeleine ( Read more... )

How do I even start talking about this book? I hope you all know by now that I read I lot, that I read a lot of great books, that I toss out books that suck, and that I live for books. There used to be something called the One Book List, which was a collection of books that readers recommended as The One that everyone had to read. I searched for ( Read more... )

My dad had to send this to Ethan's and my home address because he didn't want NASA to learn about the technology:

http://www.howstuffworks.com/lightsaber.htm/printable

An excellent example of useful info from the site:
Double-bladed Lightsaber


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