(Didn't mean to disappear--my father is rewiring the computer room and there isn't any power in there, so I can't use computers on the weekends right now.)

I'm glad I don't know anyone here who hates Catholics that much. (Seems ridiculous, actually, considering the Latino population around here, but maybe that just makes it worse for some of the less-enlightened people in our lives).

My father is getting a good laugh out of the Dubai-and-ports fiasco. Bush et al. have worked so hard to make us think Muslims are evil and now . . . oops. So much for that business deal.