Reading The Bible In a Year

I've decided I'm going to read the bible from cover to cover. O, sure, a lot of you are looking at this like it's no big deal. You've read the bible several times.

Well, I'm Catholic, and Catholics don't read the bible. We have it read to us. So, I think that for me to read the bible is something that I'm hoping might give me a few more insights into Christianity.

I've wanted to do it for a while, but when I've tried, I've found the book to be a bit boring and difficult to stay focused. Recently, though, when I was riding the bus from NYC to Washington, DC, a woman across the aisle from me had a "One Year Bible."

It breaks the bible down where there's a reading from the old testament, new testament, psalms and proverbs for each day of the year. If I read it in order, I'll have read all the books of the bible in a year. I'm hoping to do it a bit faster, so I'm reading about three days' worth of readings per day. I'm 27 days into it, and I've read 70 days worth of readings so far.

If it turns out well, I might be interested in trying to read the Koran in the same way. And maybe some other great books. A year can make an overwhelming task very managable.

Don't Burn The Flag...Wear Flag Underwear Instead

O, Congress. Why do we bother with you? Why do you spend valuable time trying to reduce our freedoms in the name of upcoming elections?

You debate a flag burning amendment. So, I can't protest what a crappy job you're doing by burning a flag. But, speaking of crappy, I think I can buy USA Flag underwear and put all the skid marks in it that I can. So, I can soil a flag with human waste- basically- but I can't burn a flag.

Unless, of course, I want to dispose of it. Then burning is the proper way to do that.

Let's see. If I burn it in protest, that's wrong. If I burn it to dispose of it, that's right. What if I'm protesting disposing of a flag? Then what should I do? I know two wrongs don't make a right. And two rights don't make a wrong. But, what does a wrong and a right make? A flag burning, I guess- both times.

O, Congress. Please, please, please retire. Stop staying around too long. Let some fresh blood in. A career politician is an oxymoron, an insult to the votes and disgusting.