Jedi master Yoda performed a sort of magic in fiction and films. Blessed Padre Pio, Franciscan mystic, carried out another kind in the form of stigmata.
Both claimed their authority stemmed from a higher force.
No, they aren’t getting a new buddy show on UPN. Both have statues - side by side - in Bologna.
Interesting, [...]

Sometimes politcal figures who take a shot at the Presidency fade into the background from which they sprang, never to be heard from again. Some, still immersed in politcal life, go on as before, but quietly.
Then there’s john kerry, the Anti-American military-socialist cum Senator who frightened us so badly by throwing his hat into [...]

Not the only war in which Americans have been involved; not the only foreign soil on which our servicemen have given their lives for freedom.
It’s not the war in which my father fought and was wounded, but it’s the one which I turn to most frequently on Memorial Day. It’s the war that took [...]

The Carnival is up at Fresh as a Daisy!

Well, it IS a new WordPress world. WP 1.5 is different in that it’s gone all modular, somewhat like Mambo, but WP does it much, much better. Of course, WP is still very easy - and fast, seeing as how that “rebuilding” crap isn’t needed.
I don’t mean to trash it, because Mambo isn’t [...]

Teresa tagged me for this meme, a first! Usually people just leave me alone.
1) Total number of films I own on DVD/video:
Roughly 20. The oldest: Lady & the Tramp.
2) The last film I bought:
Spiderman2 - I think.
3) The last film I watched:
Shrek2, yesterday.
4) Five films that I [...]