There are basically five major highways in and out of Boston: The Southeast Expressway from the south, the Mass. Turnpike from the west, Route 93 from the northwest, the Harbor Tunnels from the east, and Route 1/Mystic Tobin Bridge from the north... [Continue Reading]
Washington State has issued new standards to public schools on teaching kids as young as kindergarten about the myriad of genders we have invented: Beginning in Kindergarten, students will be taught about the many ways to express gender. Gender... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]Travel for pleasure and discovery can be meaningful and fulfilling if done in the right mindset. But if one travels to change oneself, to find oneself, thinking that visiting exotic locales will bring about fundamental... [Continue Reading]
Joe Posnanski takes his 14-year-old daughter to see "Hamilton" on Broadway, spending a small fortune to do so. He takes her because she is obsessed with it. Elizabeth is one of several million people — so many of them teenagers — who have become... [Continue Reading]
Pope Francis today appointed two new auxiliary bishops for Boston, priests I have worked closely with in my years with the Archdiocese. Bishop-elect Robert Reed will be most well known as he is the director of CatholicTV, which is seen in many... [Continue Reading]
Half of Massachusetts' Legislature has passed a new Transgender Bathroom Bill that throws out both common sense and biological science in order to accommodate a couple hundred people in the state ... at most. The other half of the Legislature is... [Continue Reading]
A fascinating look by FiveThirtyEight at Moore, Oklahoma, and whether it's really a tornado magnet or whether it's just had a bad run of luck in the past 20 years, getting hit by more EF4 and EF5 tornadoes than just about any place else. The article... [Continue Reading]
Tommy Tighe tells us the end of the tragic tale of his son Luke, who was diagnosed in utero with a condition that meant he would only live a short time after being born. Instead of aborting their son, as suggested by the doctors, they embraced what... [Continue Reading]
I don't understand the backlash here. While the "flash of light" at conception is not a literal flash of light nor an artifact of ensoulment, it's still a significant scientific achievement because it provides a biological marker of the moment that... [Continue Reading]
This is a fascinating story about a small liberal Congregational church in a Boston suburb that is seeing its congregation age and dwindle and sees the writing on the wall of their coming demise. So they decide to take a chance, sell the church, and... [Continue Reading]