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SXSW = Drivers Are Dumb

I’ll put a value judgment on people in town for SXSW. They appear to have no idea how to drive in a city that is unfamiliar to them. SXSW takes over part of downtown Austin for a week with music, movies and conference events at all times of the day and night, except a few hours in the wee of night.

Last night, I was driving home from work along Guadalupe Street at 10 pm. Usually people are starting to go out around that time, traffic would decent, but most importantly, it is a rather thoughtless drive. Stay in the middle lane, pay attention to the lights and nothing weird will come your way.

Not during SXSW. I almost hit a crowd of people after they walked into the intersection against the light with traffic heading toward them at 40 MPH. The next block, a car had stopped in the second lane from the left waiting for the two lanes to the right could clear so he could make a right hand turn, cutting off two lanes of traffic.

This continued most of my way home. I love SXSW, but don’t try to drive. Just walk or take a pedicab.

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sometimes you don’t want your picture in the paper

Just check out this front page (pdf).

Look at it, you should notice something interesting.

If you need help, check out the story about a man stealing a wallet with the color security photo next to it. Does the man look like someone you’ve seen before, perhaps in another picture on this same front page?

What are the odds?

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The Spirit Be With You, Jesuits

Prayers to our Jesuit friends who will begin their 35th General Congregation on Monday. Rocco has some more on it.
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Would you “Go On Record”?

The Catholic Peace Fellowship has started a new web project, We Go On Record. We Go On Record is an online community and posting site that allows individuals to literally go on record and state their beliefs about war. This is particularly important to individuals that do not believe in war as a morally-acceptable course of action, since if a draft is ever enacted, the local draft board would make a decision about whether or not an individual should go off to boot camp.

Using this website would allow individuals to go back and point to a historical record of their objections to war. If you have issues with the military institution, the use of war in the world and would like to do one more thing to protect yourself in a draft is activated, then you should spend a few minutes on this new website.

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Welcome Home, Tony!

As is being reported by multiple sources, Mr. Tony Blair, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, has swam the Tiber and has formally entered full communion with the Catholic Church.

Blair, formerly a member of the Church of England, had been corrected by the Catholic Cardinal for receiving Catholic communion with his family, who are Catholic and regular Mass participants. There has been much speculation that Mr. Blair would become Catholic after leaving office, fueled a great deal when a formal visit to the Holy Father was one of his final acts as Prime Minister. While he was not prohibited by law to be Catholic while Prime Minister (unlike King or Queen of England), converting to Catholicism was an issue his office did not wish to tackle.

Welcome Home, Tony!