Doubt

December 31st, 2008 | 0 Comments | Movies |

Now this is an inter­est­ing movie. In the Bronx of the early 1960s, a young and charis­matic priest faces off against the older and rigid prin­ci­pal of the parish school. He’s pro­gres­sive, well-liked, ener­getic and deeply car­ing. He’s also sus­pected of hav­ing started a thor­oughly inap­pro­pri­ate rela­tion­ship with the school’s first black stu­dent (a boy of […]

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Raptor Trust

December 30th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |


Just down the road from the Great Swamp and Lord Stir­ling Park is the Rap­tor Trust, an out­door hos­pi­tal for injured birds of prey.

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Lord Stirling Park

December 29th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Travelogues |

We took a warm (for Decem­ber), foggy and cloudy day to visit Som­er­set County’s Lord Stir­ling Park. Some ice was left over from last week’s cold snap and snow, and the reflec­tions of the bare trees on the ponds was beau­ti­ful.

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Holiday Lights

December 27th, 2008 | 3 Comments | Home |

Every area has got one: The house that peo­ple come to from miles around to stare at the extrav­a­gant hol­i­day dec­o­ra­tions. Here’s a detail from the one in Liv­ingston, NJ.

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Merry Christmas

December 25th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Home |

From all of us.

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Forty Years Ago Tonight

December 24th, 2008 | Comments Off | Science |

good night, good luck, a Merry Christ­mas and God bless all of you — all of you on the good Earth.” — Frank Bor­man aboard Apollo 8, Decem­ber 24, 1968

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It’s a Wrap

December 23rd, 2008 | 0 Comments | Home |

I fin­ished shop­ping and wrap­ping yes­ter­day after­noon! I have blog posts writ­ten and sched­uled to go live the next two days! I don’t have to do any­thing but enjoy vacation!

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Snow (Again)

December 21st, 2008 | 0 Comments | Home |

Quite frankly I’m still sore from yesterday’s shov­el­ing.

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World’s Greatest Comedian

December 20th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Strange Sites |

Right Here. That ani­mated gif of the bear kills me.

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Your Prescription Is Ready

December 19th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Comedy |

At Online Time Travel Phar­macy. I think the guy behind “Get Your War On” has some­thing to do with this. I espe­cially laughed at the registration form.

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Rick Warren (Again)

December 18th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Politics |

Our beach buddy Rick War­ren has been invited to deliver the invo­ca­tion at Obama’s inau­gural next month. A lot of peo­ple on the left are pretty angry about it; I’m not so sure they’re right. Sure, he’s said some not-very-nice things about gays and oth­ers. But I’m on board with Obama’s idea that we have […]

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Paquito D’Rivera

December 17th, 2008 | 0 Comments | Music |

Last night we headed out into the first snow of the sea­son to see what was hot in the world of latin jazz at SOPAC.

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