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Back in August, I posted a blog entry in which I mentioned waking up feeling more exhausted than when I went to bed.  That situation hasn't really changed in these two months and so I finally called my doctor.  I'll be visiting a specialist on Monday to begin an evaluation for sleep apnea - a condition my father developed when he was about my age.

Correction: my appointment is actually for Monday, October 30.

Many of the people I talk to, especially among my Christian friends, have the opinion that NPR is the mouthpiece of the godless liberals that wish to purge our country of its last vestiges of Christianity.  I will readily admit that listening to NPR's news is more challenging to me than, say, Fox news or Glenn Beck.  I find myself shaking either my head or my fist at the radio on a fairly regular basis.  But just when I'm ready to give up on it and slide back into the easy comfort of a more conservative news source and the approval of the crowd, they do something like this.

It is amazing to me how many Christians who think abortion is wrong and a form of murder, also think that it's okay for the United States to use torture as an interrogation technique.  Am I missing something here?  For all of my Christian readers (yeah, both of you) I encourage you to read this and then comment.

Samuel Shreve, at age eight hours.

Born Thursday, August 24; 6 lbs., 9 oz.

I woke up this morning feeling more exhausted than I was when I went to bed.  After alternately sleeping through and snoozing the alarm for almost half an hour, I finally became conscious of Julie gently touching me on the arm.  I lay there groggily for what seemed like a long, long time and finally got enough energy to bridge a few synapses and make a profound statement:

* grunt *