Deep Ancestry: Spencer Wells' Genographic Project Here's my review, posted today, to Amazon US about another DNA gene pool plunge, t...

Mazel Tov, Forverts, May you live to be at least 120! Reading the 110th anniversary edition of the Forward, I was moved by its wonderful co...

The Humours of Planxty: My IBR review The Irish Book Review (3.2 Spring 2007; pp. 29-30) published my review of this new book on Planxty b...

God-shaped Hole? Observers as diverse as Louise Fuller in her "The Decline of Irish Catholicism," Mary Kenny's "Goodbye t...

Dr. Francis Collins: DNA as God's Language? I am mulling over posting this on Amazon (#743 at last count!) where about 380 people have a...

Who will guard the guards? Quid custodiet ipsos custodiores? Amendment IV : The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, ...

Books, Trains, Wallets, Dystopia, Honesty My wife at her CasaMurphy blog detailed my brush with fate the other day as I slipped on the train...

Necropolitan Life: How Christians lost their groove-- or grave? This is from a teaser (although a dozen years ago there was an alphabeticall...

Bob Geldof: How to retire gracefully As my wife commented when I sent her this piece apropos of our discussions about how contact with the W...

Leo, or the Other White Meat Yes, son #1, my firstborn, I have wanted a pic of you to put up, since little brother got his mug up last Satur...

Irish-Language Podcasts for Learners & An Líonra Sóisealta I've been wanting to download to my iPod some Irish-language blog at a le...