A Multiparty Prayer

This presidential election is generating a lot of excitement and with it plenty of heated discussions. Here is a prayer I received in my e-mail this morning that I think people of all parties (D’s, R’s, Green’s, Libertarian, and more) can agree to.
If you are a person whose faith tradition includes prayer, would you pray [...]

Reason 4 to Vote Obama: He is Pro-Family

Pro-Family means different things to different people. To me, it means addressing the actual problems that families are facing — lack of time for raising children, trouble making ends meet despite being a two income family, wondering whether they’re able to take their children to the doctor, etc.
Barack Obama has a plan to promote families [...]

New Vatican Search Engine is Way Cool!

From time to time, I have reason to access the official Vatican web site at http://www.va. Most of the time I can drill down the various levels of the site to what I’m looking for, but sometimes I need to search. I used to dread those times because the Vatican search engine wasn’t that great.
Now [...]

Comments on Battle of New Britain (1944)

I got my treadmill area set up with a DVD player and I’ve started watching stuff I bought a long time back. I’m currently working my way through a value pack of World War II propaganda movies.
I figure that I’ll comment a la Walt Crawford on some of these and other things I watch while [...]

Reason 3 to Vote Obama: Transparency!

I started my 18 reasons to vote for Obama campaign because I feel that it is important to vote FOR a candidate rather than AGAINST someone. Hence the 18 reasons to vote FOR Obama instead of 18 reasons to reject McCain.
As part of this blogging campaign that I hope you’ll join, I’m poring over information [...]

We Came in Peace for All Mankind

Today, July 20th, marks the 39th anniversary of first successful manned lunar landing in the history of humankind. On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked the lunar surface while Michael Collins stayed in orbit with the command module.
Below is a photo that Armstrong took of the lunar module:
For more information about the [...]

Why Doesn’t John McCain Rate a NR Cover?

National Review Covers Jan-Jun 2008
Originally uploaded by AlaskanLibrarian
Since January 1, 2008, National Review, the flagship publication of America’s conservative movement has had 12 issues. Six of these covers have related to Democrat Barack Obama. But none of the covers featured presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. Has National Review forgotten the lesson learned by Democrats in [...]

Reason 2 to Vote Obama: Support Disabled

I started my 18 reasons to vote for Obama campaign last week because I feel that it is important to vote FOR a candidate rather than AGAINST someone. Hence the 18 reasons to vote FOR Obama instead of 18 reasons to reject McCain.
As part of this blogging campaign that I hope you’ll join, I’m [...]

Book Review: Death by Black Hole

I recently finished listening to the audio book version of Death by Black Hole by Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson. Unlike most books I write reviews on, I can’t give this one a total thumbs up. At least not in the audio version. But it’s got enough value to recommend it.
This book is a collection [...]

18 Reasons to Vote Obama / 1 – Respect for Others

Looking at the calendar, I see there are 18 weeks between now and Election Day November 4, 2008. I have decided that I will dedicate at least one blog post a week between now and November 3, 2008 to why I think you should vote for Senator Barack Obama for President. If you are a [...]