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Lately there have been stories about the skin color of Jesus.  I recall that my Catholic catechism lessons taught me that I was made in the image and likeness of God. All those paintings of Jesus at the time of his birth he is portrayed in the image and likeness of the artist who created…

Isn’t there as song about it being a long, long time from May to December? Seven months is not that long in some respects but in others it is quite long. Measuring whether it is long or short depends on the task at hand and the mindset of a person. If one is waiting for something…

Indicia of things to come that will bother my equilibrium are poking their heads up through the earth and new fallen snow. Here’s a statement I read in the paper on Thursday from the lawyer for Eldo Kim the Harvard student who wasn’t prepared to take an examination so he’s alleged to have sent a…

INTRODUCTION: “Oh, what a tangle web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” Sir Walter Scott This is the story of the Great Boston Bamboozlement. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary defines bamboozlement as: “the quality or state of being bamboozled.” Bamboozle is defined as: “to conceal one’s true motives from esp. by elaborately feigning…

[Note: Sometimes being the head waiter, clerk of the work and bottle washer causes one to mess up. Yesterday my post on this subject was truncated by more than half due to some error on my part. I took it down and reproduce it in full today.] John Connolly was convicted of a crime he…

I noted how Judge Leon was in error in his decision on the NSA. Others have seconded my suggestion that he was wrong. It is amazing that a judge in the face of clear precedent against him (Smith v. Maryland, 442 U.S. 735 (1979) which said there is no expectation of privacy in metadata held…