rebranding, opening up new markets

I was going to crack wise about how they need the money so they’re stepping up the marketing and branding. The bankruptcies and events that led up to them haven’t really been great for recruitment.

But I read an article and it’s clearly about money because they are going let them keep their own customs/rules. They’ll be Catholic “in donations only”

Pope Benedict XVI approved a church provision that will allow members of the Anglican church -- known as the Episcopal Church in the United States -- to become Catholics while maintaining many of their distinctive spiritual and liturgical traditions, including having married priests.

The Married Priest thing seems like a pretty big deal in terms of changing doctrine.

LeGarrent Blount might be reinstated

First, I have moved into the space where I believe WAYYYY too much was made of this. It is still the talk of college football a month later, while the Michigan guy who punched a guy on the field during the game got no mention. The ranting has diminished, but that first ten days it was talked about non-stop. A guy smacked talked and got punched…OMG the end of sports in America. He acted like a tool afterward indeed; do you know how many baseball fights there have been since this? Did the world end? Did a baseball player even get suspended for acting crazy and having to be restrained? NOPE.

Right now Blount’s punishment is the same one Dante Stallworth got from his league. That seems a bit out of whack to me.

Frankly I don’t care if he comes back or not although I’m partial to the notion that UO should stick to their punishment. He’s still got a future in the NFL if he keeps his act together. If he sits out this year and does well in the NFL, the university did the right thing. If they re-instate him and he does something dumb in the next couple of years and/or flames out in the NFL the University looks bad. I think letting him practice and go to school for free is a good compromise.