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The blame game is on; in fact, it's reached the playoffs and fan

"An evil action cannot be justified by reference to a good intention." - St. Thomas Aquinas

I don't know if you've heard, but there's a rumor going around

Located in a nondescript commercial building at 7455 Eigleberry St. is Gilroy's Pleasant Valley Church. The facility's modest exterior masks an amazing facility that allows the congregation to offer a wide variety of ministries to the community.

Playwright Jeffery Hatcher takes a moment in history and offers

To the best of my ability, I avoid negative feelings like envy. That being said, I have long dreamt of a day that I can buy pants off the rack. Regardless of waist size (I say that for the benefit of you who, like my daughter, think dieting would give me more options in length), the shortest inseam on the rack is 29 inches which, unfortunately, is one and a half inches too long for me. Sadly, my pants go from the rack, to a tailor, and finally,to my closet. I continue to hope that the market will respond to my needs and the needs of my vertically challenged brethren, but to date that is little more than a pipe dream.

I really dread the 2012 election cycle, especially the presidential race. We know that both the Obama and Romney campaigns have enough money to completely dominate television advertising, and given what we have seen from the Republican primary races, it will be overwhelmingly negative. It appears that Romney’s theme will be that Obama was not up to the job and gave us four years of failure, so he deserves a chance to get it right. Almost every speech is filled with “he didn’t … I will.”

Shangri La in the Blue Mountains

The sound of the Tabla Drums sets the mood as