Consolation Champs

Sigh…I wish I could stop linking to this stuff.
Patrick Henry College is a Christian college where 85% of the students come from homeschooled environments. It was founded explicitly to produce conservative politicians and other public office holders.
Discussion on Metafilter

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Next Saturday, Brooke and I are running the Pride and Remembrance 5K for the third year in a row. This is one of our favourite races since it’s part of Pride Week here in Toronto and there is a real community feeling to the event. This year’s fundraising beneficiaries are the 519 Church St. Community […]

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I’m not really old enough to remember it, but the “Jesus People” movement was a full-blown phenomenon in the late 1960s and into the early 1970s. Centred mostly in northern California, hippies began getting into Jesus and these “Jesus Freaks” turned the established church on its ear. One of the most influential figures in this […]

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I’ve been watching the latest “tag” meme float around and I’ve been desperately hoping to avoid it, but Johnny has tagged me. So here goes:
Number of Books I Own:
This is why I was hoping to avoid this one. You see, nobody knows exactly how many books I own. They’re spread all over the known universe. […]

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(image copyright Globe and Mail)
This story by Michael Valpy in the Globe and Mail worries me. (Go and read it now, because I think the Globe will make it part of a paid archive in a week. That’s why I posted the above picture). The same-sex marriage issue is coming to a head in Canada […]

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Ok, everyone knows I love movies. But I just wanted to relate that I just voted on my 500th movie over at IMDB. For the record, the film was House of Sand and Fog (2003) and I gave it an 8.

Tonight, we watched one of two films I picked up from Spanish director Álex de […]

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I think I can remember the name of every person who has cut my hair more than once. I develop a strong dependence on my barbers. And I’ve had some trouble in the past couple of years keeping good ones.
Two years ago, Vince died. He had cut my hair for about fifteen years in his […]

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