Christian Brady

Today is the day. We are off to see the Rex parade downtown. Today, of course, is the last day of feasting before Ash Wednesday and the beginning of fasting and abstinence for Lent. Yeah, right. 🙂 Actually, there are more people than you might expect in NO who usually […]

Why you ask? “The president maintained his hunger strike for 11 days but was forced to end it for health reasons.” For health reasons. Ok.

This blog is by a Fr. Wauck who is himslef of the Opus Dei Prelature. Get his take on the Da Vinci Code and Opus Dei. Hat tip to Jim Davila. I will try and compile various sites and blogs on the silly Da Vinci Code later today.

I still hate the name and I won’t be getting one any time soon for lots of reasons (2,499 of them, to be precise) but I am very glad to read that the MacBook Pro is a solid machine and working well. Pros: Classic design; runs Universal applications quickly; bright […]

Tonight we went to our first parade of the Mardi Gras season (they actually started last week). It was sparse on the North Shore but a lot of fun and Izzy came home with three bags of beads and stuffed animals. I caught one of this year’s primo throws:

For those students of mine who wonder what life was like back in the day, I present the blue couch. One of my old roommates posted this blog as an homage to the couch that my grandmother gave us for dorm room use. The last word I have is that […]

Today Brill sent me a copy of the first (and only, so far as I know) review of my book The Rabbinic Targum of Lamentations by W. Th. Van Peursen. I believe this link is correct, but I do not have a subscription to Ancient Near Eastern Studies. It is […]

MacMinute News provides this somewhat dramatic title and the following quote: “It’s like consorting with the enemy. We’ve had this long history of saying the enemy is the big black-hatted guys, and they kind of represent evil. We are different, and by being different we’re better,” he says. “All of […]

From an exam, defining circumcision: The ritual cutting off of the foreskin of a male penis. Is there any other kind of penis?

This article details the struggles churches and synagogues are facing in the wake of Katrina. Fr. Kramer is a friend and I spent a year and a half teaching at Annunciation. They are doing outstanding work to bring relief and hope to a neighborhood that has been devestated and is […]