More And More Often....

Thieves Swipe Thanksgiving From Sacramento Church

Guess The State

Oh, Yes. It's Nice For At Least One Of The Teams I Follow To Actually Win A Championship

Football Banquet. Ivy League Championship Trophy! pic.twitter.com/i6Ct423wnJ

— Princeton Football (@PUTigerFootball) November 24, 2013

Politicians Are A Little Weird

For example, one wants us to talk about medical care when at the Thanksgiving table:

The president is urging families to talk about health insurance when they get together this year. What could go wrong?

Another wants us to talk about gun control:

Bloomberg Group Wants You To Start Fights About Gun Control at Thanksgiving

In an age without faith, our gods are numerous and mundane, apparently.  Say a simple grace, laugh with family and friends, do the best you can.  God will take care of the rest.

This Week's Lesser Feast Days

Only one lesser feast this week, that of James Otis Sargent Huntington on Monday.  Please read of him via the link below.

James Huntington wrote: “Holiness is the brightness of divine love, and love is never idle; it must accomplish great things.”

Another Reality For The Contemporary Church To Process

For the first time in memory, adults in the United States under age forty are now expected to be poorer than their parents.

What Was That Song From Li'l Abner?

Right, "The Country's In The Very Best of Hands".

For two decades, the U.S. military has been unable to submit to an audit, flouting federal law and concealing waste and fraud totaling billions of dollars

Sigh. Again.

Erroneous gun reports cause chaos at LAX

In An Age Without Faith, Hypocrisy Is god

In a related, more contemporary incident:

EPIC FAIL: UN Climate Talks Fall Apart As 132 Countries Storm Out

Yep, Bob Dylan Is A Welder

Bob Dylan is a welder and he makes big iron gates out of scrap metal [5 pictures]

I'm Not Sure That's How "Friend" Is Defined

Police: Man dressed as poodle set on fire by friend

Umm

$50,000 Agreed to probe smells at Sewage plant

Sigh

FOLDED-UP APRON MISTAKEN FOR HANDGUN, MALL PUT ON LOCKDOWN

A Flamboyant, Champion Kickboxer Is Taken On By A U.S. Marine With Predictable Results

And I Thought The Science Was Settled

Scientists witness massive gamma-ray burst, don't understand it

What Crickets Sound Like When Their "Chirps" Are Slowed Down

If you have difficulty downloading to your, I'm sure, too ancient computer, here's the link.

10 rules for writing about the 50th anniversary of the day John F. Kennedy was shot.

8. Don't commemorate murder. A man managed to kill the President. He's already gotten far too much press. He doesn't deserve our endless attention. I'm sick of "celebrating" a death day. We don't make anything of Lincoln's death day. We celebrate his birthday, like Washington's, because he was such a great President. We don't celebrate JFK's birthday — I don't even know what it is — because he was not great enough. We celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday, not the day he was assassinated. Why? Because of his greatness, and because we don't want to direct our attention toward his murder. So why do we focus on Kennedy's death day? It must be because he was not great enough, and because of points #1, #2, and #3, above. It's about ourselves. A man died and we morbidly relive it annually, for some reason that must make little sense to those under 50.

I Think There's A German Word For This

Veteran House Democratic aides are sick over the insurance prices they’ll pay under Obamacare, and they’re scrambling to find a cure. 

“In a shock to the system, the older staff in my office (folks over 59) have now found out their personal health insurance costs (even with the government contribution) have gone up 3-4 times what they were paying before,” Minh Ta, chief of staff to Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.), wrote to fellow Democratic chiefs of staff in an email message obtained by POLITICO. “Simply unacceptable.”

Friday's Church: Converted Diner/Russian Orthodox Church, Moscow

Archaeological News

Trove of religious offerings unearthed from ancient sanctuary in Turkey