On a cool summer evening in late July, leaders and pilgrims preparing to travel to World Youth Day in Madrid in August were treated to a special night: a Boston Red Sox game against the Kansas City Royals seen from the amazing right-field rooftop... [Continue Reading]
On the new social media website Google+, I’ve seen some conversation from people who are discovering Evernote and I thought I’d write about how I’ve come to use it. I’ve written about Evernote before: How to save a web page... [Continue Reading]
Today I received my first Kickstarter project to result in an actual product. If you’re not familiar with Kickstarter, it’s a unique way of providing seed funding for entrepreneurial projects that would otherwise never see the light of... [Continue Reading]
This is pretty neat. Thomas More College in New Hampshire is establishing medieval-style guilds for its students, pairing them as apprentices and journeymen to master craftsmen in various disciplines such as baking, woodworking and cabinetry, sacred... [Continue Reading]
I have a really big announcement today. As of July 1 I will be leaving my position as Manager of Gift Processing and Donor Relations for the Catholic Foundation of the Archdiocese of Boston to join the brand-new Office for New Media and Initiatives... [Continue Reading]
In this current recession, the fiscal pain is spread across the entire country, but some states are doing better than others. Forbes magazine has done a state-by-state analysis and found that states that vote liberal Democrat the most (i.e... [Continue Reading]
Liberals like to use taxation and regulation to bring about social engineering. Unfortunately, they also use those tools as an opportunity to expand the reach of government through new programs funded by those new taxes. Thus they tax cigarettes... [Continue Reading]
If there’s a silver lining to the current economic crisis, it’s that there’s no money in the budget for the usual pork-barrel spending and apparently little interest in new taxes to pay for them. At least the liberal leadership in... [Continue Reading]
Parents of students in Boston public schools are protesting plans to bypass the city’s school system when handing out federal “stimulus” funds. They claim the schools are underfunded: Parents spoke of how their kids’ schools... [Continue Reading]
Barack Obama’s pork-filled so-called stimulus bill is so full of big government waste, you could spend all day documenting it. Here’s one example from Massachusetts. How about nearly $22 million for solar-powered trash-compacting garbage... [Continue Reading]