Now is as good a time as any.
Given that, at least for now, I am throwing my support behind the yet-to-officially-announce Fred Thompson, and more importantly, given the following statement by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice before the Senate Appropriations committee (5/12/2005):
Mr. Chairman, before I begin my actual testimony, I want to speak directly to [...]

The Stanislav Shmulevich story I discussed yesterday is beginning to go viral.
LGF updates with a report that Phil Orenstein of Democracy Project is getting involved, and also that many lawyers are lining up to help with the defense.
The mainline blogosphere is taking notice, as Michelle Malkin, Allah Pundit (who agrees with my legal analysis that [...]

Completely, utterly, outrageous: Sharia law has now taken precedence in New York.
LGF reports (and follows up on) the story (with a hat tip to Purple Wombats) of Stanislav Shmulevich, who was arrested on felony counts of aggravated harassment and criminal mischief, for throwing a Koran into a toilet at Pace University. From the wire story:
A [...]

Family picture taken at Grant’s FarmPhoto © Chip Bennett, all rights reserved.
Since the weather this past weekend was so absolutely amazing, we decided to get out to enjoy it as much as possible.
Saturday afternoon, we checked out another of Hazelwood’s many parks; this one was Howdershell Park, about five minutes away. We then decided to [...]

Just a quick update on some travel plans that we are in the process of finalizing:
First up, our first real family vacation: Gatlinburg, TN, and Asheville, NC:
Since our original Vegas plans fell through, I moved my vacation days to the Wednesday through Friday before Labor Day. So, we will be spending Wednesday and Thursday nights [...]

Steve Carr blogged in agreement with this Christianity Today article denouncing fathers who use the phrase “we are pregnant”. His lead-in and closing sentences sum up his agreement:
The author, a man by the way, believes that sentence to be both inaccurate and demeaning. When men drop that phrase, he believes, they are actually belittling all [...]

Hard as it is to believe, Lily is already two months old!

Lily is two months old today! (Look how big I’m getting!)Photo © Chip Bennett, all rights reserved.
Lily is definitely getting more and more curious about her surroundings:

Lily is two months old today! (Princess is still very curious, but also very cautious.)Photo © [...]

For those of you aware of Stephanie’s issue with her abcessed tooth, just a quick note to let you know that we got her an appointment at 10:30 this morning, to have the tooth extracted.

For those of you who know what it means, today is a day to celebrate, because as of this morning, Stephanie is finally free!
In related news, we are planning a private wedding ceremony, Saturday, September 8th, at my parents’ house in Indianapolis. More information on that, later.
Thank you, Lord, for answered prayer!

I would like to phase out my use of Haloscan for comment and trackback management. To that end, I have enabled commenting from within the blog, and have enabled trackback verification and CAPTCHA comment verification.
For those of you who leave comments, the comment verification is just a simple math equation, the answer to which must [...]

The rose bouquet I got Steph for our anniversary has really started to open up over the past couple days. When I woke up today, I noticed the morning sun illuminating the blossoms magnificently so I attempted to capture digitally the beauty of the flowers:

Anniversary flower bouquet.Photo © Chip Bennett, all rights [...]

Pardon any dust you may encounter. Wordpress 2.2.1 was released, and I am in the midst of upgrading.
UPDATE: The upgrade is complete. Let me know if you notice anything amiss.

Today is a very important day for our little family: July 3, 2007 is the one year anniversary of my first date with Stephanie.
What an amazing year it has been! I never imagined that in a year’s time I would have the family I have always wanted, that in becoming a husband and father I [...]