Ave Maria is a town in Florida being built by Tom Monaghan, founder of Domino’s Pizza and devout Catholic. Features include lower-than-median home prices, walkable streets, and (if Tom has his way) no contraceptives for sale anywhere.

I immediately thought of Karen and Deana when I read the article. Sounds like a fascinating place to study.

I just read a fascinating (if a bit slanted) LA Times article about “genetic evidence that Native Americans aren’t descendants of the Hebrews”:http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mormon16feb16,0,5561316.story. It probably doesn’t come as a shock to most of us, but apparently it’s a big deal to Mormons who were converted to that faith based on their “Lamanite heritage”. Anyway, I’m not doing the article justice. Read it; it has an interesting set of twists and turns.

I hope I can get this to work. One of the students on GVSU’s LiveJournal has been using this a lot and I LIKE it:

No link, just that.

…at least according to “Pat Robertson”:http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/23/robertson.chavez.1534/index.html.