If the Ivy League Tuition Is Not Enough, How About Legal Costs

A Dartmouth composition professor threatened to sue her students for disageeing with her in class. Hear about it on the Wall street Journal:

There is Was a Horse Named Sequence

You must know my love of medieval sequences (are there any other kind?) Well there is a horse named Sequence that was born in 1946. Now that was a great year!

She was Gold Digger's mom and Prospector's grandma. Thus she was Smarty Jones' great great grandma. Since Prospector is the leading study in the U.S., she is in a lot of family trees.

Sayers, Flannery O'Connor and the Making of the Artist

Can a Politician Be Pro Choice and Pro Abortion: Archbishop Has Proposed a Test

It is 1855. You have decided to vote for a politician who is "personally opposed to slavery, but pro choice on the issue." Your choosing him is based on his stands on all the other issues which in your judgment outweighs his support of the system of slavery. Could you explain your vote with a clean heart to a black man in manacles?

That is not how Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. puts it in response to "Roman Catholics for Obama" who quote him in their initial appeal. Chaput,a student of Ronald Lawler and a Capuchin, shepherds the Roman Catholics in the archdiocese of Denver which includes most of Northern Colorado. What he does say is morally and intellectually powerful. Read it in its entirety:

Click here to read Archbishop Chaput's statement on First Things.

Col. John Is the Pick in the Kentucky Derby

The top two horses in the Derby field are Big Brown and Col. John. The latter's win in the Santa Anita Derby convinced me. His dad Tizrow owned this distance and his maternal sire Turkoman was pretty classy too.