Congratulations to Kevin! (Congrats to Ben, too. We're looking forward to seeing him again when visiting the Walshes.) Wow -- Supreme Court positions and trips to Ireland -- and I spend my days explaining to the teachers of our youth how to move a Netscape window to the left so they can see the scroll bar. (Ok, that was only one person, but it's a good indicator of my days.) Of course, I think some of my liberal New York co-workers are shocked that I would admit even knowing someone who worked for Scalia, apparently a villian for more reasons than I care to hear.

Dan, will you pray that Josh and I win the lottery? If not that, how about that he gets published in some great journal of patristics, finishes his PhD in 10 months and gets offered a full professorship at Boston College (not Harvard; they're too political) or some small liberal arts college in the Northeast -- anyplace fun and not hot?