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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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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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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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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From all of us.

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

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