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May 18th, 2004
God Places a Bet at the Kentucky Derby
Smarty Jones, your 2004 Kentucky Derby champion, is God's Horse.
Seabiscuit for the new milleniumYou see a horse like that and a story like this maybe once in a lifetime. Twice, if you've seen Seabiscuit.
Smarty came ...
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May 3rd, 2004
Does the Almighty Bend an Ear to Prayers for Smarty Jones?
With a victory in the Belmont Stakes on Saturday, June 5, 2004, Smarty Jones will have captured horseracing's most elusive prize—the Triple Crown. No horse has done it since ...
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April 13th, 2004
Just Enough Comfort to Make Me Miss The Real Thing
Pop quiz, which is the biggest sin?
A) Missing Mass on Easter Sunday
B) Because you were out until five in the morning on Holy Saturday
C) Hooking up with a person you'd known for under an hour ...
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April 4th, 2004
Why Mars and the Moon Make Sense
I saw Mars last night, a tiny spark of crimson in an expanse of frosty black. It's tough to miss. First red planet to the right.
I saw the moon too, half-crecented ...
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April 2nd, 2004
Children Are Always Surprising
"It's a boy," my brother-in-law said with great shock as he stood before a roomful of nail-biting family members and friends. The stunned pandemonium that followed shook the desk ...
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March 1st, 2004
14 Psychics, an Election, and the Virgin Mary's Dating Service
Crystal Ball v. Gore
On the evening of the 2000 election, I sat before Judith Regan Live watching a psychic make a prediction about the outcome.
"We won't know who won for a ...
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January 10th, 2004
Not Just Like a Virgin
There are certain things one simply does not announce about oneself upon meeting a marriage-eligible member of the opposite sex.
Such as: "I've refrained from sexual intercourse because my body is a Temple of the Holy ...
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January 9th, 2004
A Cincinnati Native Takes Their Favorite Son to Task
In November of 2002, baseball's all-time hits leader had the following conversation with the commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig:
"Yes, sir, I did bet on baseball," Pete Rose said during the meeting, ...
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December 2nd, 2003
The Repercussions of Natal Timing
Hey, are you like me? You know?screwed?
I am one of those poor unfortunate souls born in that ungodly space between Thanksgiving and Martin Luther King Day. Jesus picked a terrible birthday for Himself.
If you love ...
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October 31st, 2003
So I'm dumping the box of Halloween costumes out on the floor last night, and� there wasn't much there. I don't mean there wasn't a great deal to choose from--we're talking about fourteen year's worth ...
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October 19th, 2003
Extraterrestrial Life and Christianity
ALF says hello
In the middle of the American desert, mankind cups his ear to the cosmos: several highly powerful satellite dishes constantly scan the skies, searching for extraterrestrial radio contact attempts ...
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October 14th, 2003
A Conservative's Unhappy Conclusions on the Affaire d'Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh died last week. In a way.
The Rush I knew?my principled companion for three hours a day?is in some very serious legal trouble, under investigation for illegally purchasing painkillers.
I never expected perfection from Rush? ...
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September 26th, 2003
We Didn't Know What We Were Missing
"In the year 2000," writes Tom Wolfe , novelist and Grand Poobah of non-fiction, "in the era of hooking up, ?first base' meant deep kissing (tonsil hockey), groping, and fondling; ?second ...
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July 14th, 2003
The Troubles and Triumphs of the Man Who Rode Seabiscuit
You have heard this story: it's about a good man, a complex man who had the world at his feet, then watched it drop away; who gave generously, lived loudly, and ...
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June 12th, 2003
Does the Proverbial Tie Cut the Mustard?
When I talk to my father, the conversation usually sounds like this on my end: "Hi, Dad.""Yes. Thank you.""I know.""Yes, the Bengals certainly do suck.""No….Look, is Mom around?"
Division of laborMy mother is the emotional ...
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May 3rd, 2003
Sammy Sosa's Suspended and Back - Why Should We Care?
Sammy Sosa's seven-game suspension for bat corking ended last week, amidst much snickering and two very respectable singles.
He refers to the incident in which his bat shattered, revealing a chunk of cheating squirreled into the ...
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April 10th, 2003
Filesharing Isn't Unethical or Killing the Music Business
Lest we forget?
When the Cincinnati Bengals were in the 1988 Super Bowl (yes, really), a local radio station cobbled together rousing stadium anthems with such audio gems as "The Who-Dey Rap," and the mix was ...
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April 3rd, 2003
On the Job Where Columbia Should Have Landed
The space program is so flatly braided into my life that I use it as an alarm clock. When an orbiter (for that is the proper, NASA-ized name for the part ...
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March 28th, 2003
Channeling Your Tantrum Matters
"I don't want to talk about anger right now," one of Saddam Hussein's advisors is reported to have said as he fled a Baghdad government building. Whole world's angry these days, isn't it? I suppose ...
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March 16th, 2003
Baby, Tall Guy, and the View from God's Shoulders
My baby cousin Kaitlyn issues from small stock. Her father is short, her mother even shorter, and her grandparents no towering giants. Her eighteen months on this planet have been populated by people who talk ...
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