March 2012
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Astronomy is so cool.
Tomorrow is the Feast of the Annunciation. Now check this out:
The sky will be spectacular in the west after sunset on March 25, 2012, with the waxing crescent moon and the planet Jupiter very close to each other in the evening twilight sky. Plus Venus is nearby – the sky’s brightest planet. You’ll see Jupiter and the moon below Venus in the west after sunset. The famous Pleiades star cluster is...
Have you ever noticed the people most vocal about...
thatothersmaybelovedmorethani:
basically.
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Protesting is now a crime punishable by a year or... →
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You're funny, Hulu.
I’ve been watching Hulu videos all night since I’ve been too sick to sleep, and they keep showing me an ad for a discounted student rate for the New York Times.
How many times do I click “No, this ad is not relevant to me,” before they get it?
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[[MORE]]My best friend just told me he isn’t going to be there for Easter Vigil Mass because he’s going to be with his girlfriend instead. I’m singing the Exultet and he promised me he’d be there, but she changed plans and wants to go home to her family a day earlier. I am so, so, so heartbroken.
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The NYTimes Anti-Catholic Ad.
Here’s my response to it.
It’s time to quit the Roman Catholic Church. Will it be reproductive freedom, or back to the Dark Ages? Do you choose women and their rights, or Bishops and their wrongs? Whose side are you on? In light of the u.s. Catholic Conference of Bishops’ war against women’s right to contraception…
Why are you aiding and abetting a church that...
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Sign the petition against the HHS Mandate. →
Almost 75,000 already!
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Two clicks to oppose the HHS mandate. →
I posted this before, but no one seemed to pay attention. I thought clicking on the link would be enough of an explanation but here goes one instead: this page is for college students who oppose the HHS mandate because Obama is primarily concerned with our age range. Every like on the page is counted as one vote against the mandate. It literally takes two clicks to like this page - about the same...
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Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus of Nazareth, Joseph Ratzinger, talking about Jesus’ three temptations in the desert:
The tempter is not so crude as to suggest to us directly that we should worship the devil. He merely suggests that we opt for the reasonable decision, that we chose to give priority to a planned and thoroughly organized world, where God may have his place as a private concern but must not interfere...
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