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The Church Digs In

There’s a very good article at The New York Times looking at the problem of clerical abuse from the church’s position. You can read it at http://t.jmc.me/zecbk. In addition to the two, inter-linked problems here (first, of course, the abuse and, second,...

New & Improved!

Well, I changed my web site again. I had a nice website at jmc.me which looked pretty but actually had very little actual content. And I had my blog at blog.jmc.me with more content than the website. So, I decided to scrap the website and move the blog to jmc.me. So,...

Putting her down

Well, we put one of our dogs down yesterday. That’s a polite way to say we killed her. In spanish, it’s even more vivid: ella fue sacrificada. Sacrificar in Spanish is the word for “slaughter” (as in animals whose meat we’re going to eat)...

Día del Mar

Every year on this date, Bolivians celebrate the Day of the Sea (el Día del Mar) in which they remember the loss of the department of Litoral to Chile in the War of the Pacific. The loss of this state meant that Bolivia lost its access to the sea and to this day...