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Rocco is back at it
Rocco of Whispers in the Loggia is back in high-gear publishing quite a bit of text in the last couple of days. Go check it out. Something I find particularly…
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Review – The Noticer
Arriving in stores tomorrow is The Noticer by Andy Andrews and published by Thomas Nelson. In the book, the author follows the life of a homeless youth who is found…
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McD’s Responds
In response to the issue mentioned on this blog earlier, McD’s responded: Hello Brandon: Thank you for taking the time to contact McDonald’s Customer Service Center to bring your recent…
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Pope: Families are Schools of Obedience
I would post the full-text, but the Vatican website only has Italian and Spanish.
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Appointmentpalooza 2009
Bishop Gregory M. Aymond announced an incredible list of appointments today for the Diocese of Austin. I can’t remember a list being quite so long. In bold are appointments of…
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What’s Your Emergency? Noise?
Austin’s ABC affiliate, KVUE, has a top story on their website about a woman claiming she called 911 and was placed on hold. At face value, this is possibly newsworthy.…
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Back to the Stone Age
Today, I ended my BlackBerry data plan. With a kid on the way, a two-income household becoming a single-income household, and trying to move toward a more balanced online/offline life,…
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Facebook’s Voting Problem
A brief post related to Facebook’s latest vote for governance. The vote would be binding if 30% of active users, defined as those who logged onto the website in the…
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McDonald’s is unfriendly to people with allergies
My sister went to the McDonald’s location in Wal-Mart on Lawrence Rd in Wichita Falls yesterday. She ordered a hamburger for my niece, who is a toddler, and is very…
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A great priest-per-Catholic ratio
On Saturday, it was made public that the Pope appointed Fr. Beda Umberto Paluzzi, OSB, previously the apostolic administrator of the territorial abbey of Montevergine, Italy as the ordinary abbot of that…