After eighth grade Moore enrolled in a Catholic pre-seminary. "He admired the Berrigan brothers [radical anti-Vietnam War Catholic priests] and thought that the priesthood was the way to effect social change," wrote The New Yorker's Larissa MacFarquhar in February 2004. "This resolve lasted only through his first year, though, after the Detroit Tigers made it to the World Series for the first time in Moore's life, and the seminary wouldn't allow him to watch the games." As a Catholic, this part makes me shudder....but it also makes me think: "too bad the rest of the flaming liberal seminarians weren't too shallow to quit over a baseball game!"
ping to Narses, btw
I'm off to get ready to watch the SOTU. In my jammies, of course!