Spectre’s Sayings

The Media Bloggers Association put out a report that claims bloggers win 92% of the lawsuits filed against them.

Kudos to Rev. Runnion-Bareford. Story here.

Catholic World News is reporting that the Vatican has approved new English translations of texts for the Mass. The project of correcting the translation of the entire Roman Missal is expected to last until 2010.

It appears to me that this project is simply trying to get the translation closer to what it says in the original Latin, thereby losing any inculturation. If being closer to the Latin is such a big deal, why not skip English altogether and use the Latin? Otherwise, I fail to see the point in this exercise.

Found this pro-life/pro-family commercial on Jennifer’s Favorite Links, and liked it. So, I’m reposting.

Virgin Galactic today unveiled WhiteKnightTwo. Christened “Eve,” this is the aircraft that will lift SpaceShipTwo aloft.

Here’s a video of how tourists will take suborbital trips aboard Virgin Galactic:

Update (11:30 pm): More here.

Here’s a few pictures I took on Saturday of my nearly-finished house.

Morton Grove is dropping its gun ban.

Today is the 97th anniversary of Indiana Jones’ Hiram Bingham’s discovery of Machu Picchu.

Reason Magazine, in an column called Excuse Me While I Get My Gun, reviews Washington D.C.’s continued attempt to thwart Americans’ right to self-defense. I see that Congress is abdicating its Constitutional power to govern the nation’s capitol.

I suppose that’s because Congress if full of fascists who want to unconstitutionally strip Americans of all their rights.

Why can’t real debates be this entertaining?

Charlie Papazian, the Beer Examiner, reports that New Belgium Brewing and Elysian are going to begin to brew on each others’ premises.

Cool: Chemical breakthrough turns sawdust into biofuel.

Please, sir, can I have some more?

Man first landed on the moon. That was a great accomplishment.

But the fact we haven’t been back in 36 years is simply a travesty.