David Paterson is not the first blind governor:
As a child, Mr. Paterson suffered a bad ear infection that damaged his optic nerve, leaving him legally blind. He is the first blind governor of New York,
and the second in the nation (Bob Cowley Riley, almost entirely blind, filled in as chief executive of Arkansas for 11 days in 1975).
The Catholic Church does not celebrate the Feast of St. Patrick on March 17 when that date falls during Holy Week, as it does this year. The normal thing to do, apparently, is to move the liturgical celebration to the first available day after Easter, but that would push it out to April 1 this year. A number of dioceses have taken differing approaches on how they’re approaching the feast day this year. It’s worth noting that moving the date up to before Holy Week did take Vatican permission. Fortunately, this sort of thing doesn’t happen again till 2160, so we will only have to worry about St. Patrick’s Day falling on a Friday during Lent between now and then.
Amanda Shaw points out a new book about Johnny Cash and a article about the man from the First Things archives.
Today was a big day. Not only did Agent Murphy purposefully look at The Dog, he also worked very hard to try to pet her. His little arms flailed around, and if I’d hold her a bit to keep her a little closer to him, he managed to land a hand on her now and then – got the tags on her collar to jingle a couple of times, but mostly bopped her on the snout. This is progress, though! We try to explain that to The Dog…