1. What bill do you hate paying the most ( Read more... )

There was an interesting reaction to the fact that the Jesuit university, Boston College, decided to re-install crucifixes in their classrooms. I'm not sure when they were taken down, but accounts seem to indicate it was post-Vatican II. Deacon Greg Kandra, at his blog "The Deacon's Bench" posted an article, and a self-described BC alumnus "Matt" ( Read more... )

The man who gave us musical "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" has a 3-part mini-series online: Dr. Horrible's Sing-A-Long Blog. It's one of the dumbest/funniest things I've seen in a while. I hear the third part is going up sometime this weekend and after this weekend the whole thing is going down - so catch it while you can ( Read more... )

The "Invader Zim" cartoon was one of the silliest things I've ever seen, but it only lasted a season. *sniffle* I had no idea if Zim ever conquered the Earth... until TODAY!! Nickelodeon Magazine ran an IZ comic called "The Day The Earth Stunk". Here's the link to the mag on-line: Read more... )

I'm always reminded of the young pirate in "Pirates of Penzance" who couldn't leave piracy and marry his sweetheart until he turned 21. But the poor fellow was born on Leap Day, which meant he'd be an old, old man ( Read more... )

School was cancelled today due to snow. Yay! Now I have to do Round Two of snow shovelling.

Teenaged boys in the neighbourhood are snowboarding down the street by hitching a tow from a snowmobile and then letting go when they reach a good velocity.

What a crazy year. I'm getting ready to do a marathon test-correcting session, as I did NOTHING on schoolwork this break and tomorrow class is in session. I swiped the following survey from Buggy ( Read more... )

...but this time it's kind of sad that way, too.

This is an "article" from The Onion, a satirical website. It's about the fact that the Presidential Race for 2008 began about 18 months too early.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/69752

I voted this past week (the millage passed over 2-1) and got the scoop on voting in the primaries. I'd been freaking out that next year I'd have to register with a party affiliation. Au contraire ( Read more... )