This was in the news yesterday – an internationally known Catholic priest was shown in photographs last week embracing a bathing-suit-clad woman on a Florida beach, finally admitted that they have had a two-year affair. The Rev. Alberto Cutie (yes, it’s “Father Cutie,” make up your own jokes) said that he is in love with […]

[Read more →]

I know that every beauty contest has a Q&A session to show that these young women have minds along with great bodies. Most of the time, the women come off worse than if there had been no Q&A: their comments and concerns are usually superficial and incipid at best. So, it’s a surprise to me […]

[Read more →]

The Indignant Wife and the Indignant Oldest Daughter watch a number of channels that I would normally avoid on my own: HGTV, the Food Channel; The Travel Channel. But I watch some of these channels so that I can spend some time with them. And one of the shows that the family likes is TLC’s […]

[Read more →]

As The Indignant Wife and I sat in slow moving morning rush hour traffic this morning, I started to think about fear. The radio was talking about the Swine Flu pandemic; and people were creeping on the roads this morning because it had rained overnight and continued to drizzle despite no accidents, or other reason […]

[Read more →]

As anyone knows who has visited this site, I read and collect comic books. I love them – they take me places that are pure imagination and pure excitement. And I hate when my hobby takes a beating, as in the article that the Chicago Tribune printed earlier this week. In these tough economic times, […]

[Read more →]

I am probably the last comics guy to make it to the theater to see “Watchmen,” but family responsibilities come first, and besides, I’d waited 23 years for a film to be made of it, what’s a couple of weeks more. All I can say is – BRAVO! It was wonderfully done and captured the […]

[Read more →]

It’s bad enough that they run a dying station, but the powers-that-be behind the scenes aren’t even original (and maybe that’s the problem). Ever since this year’s Grammy Awards when Robert Plant and Alison Krauss won numerous awards for their hybrid CD “Raising Sand,” suddenly, listeners are starting to hear more of Plant’s old band, […]

[Read more →]