Leiden, the Netherlands

We await the Saturday Night Live sketch on Martha Stewart's Homemaking Hints for the Prison Cell and Holiday Recipes for Raisin Jack.

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"Welcome to the Gay State" ® would seem to be the likely winner of this slogan contest, though I kind of like "Get Scrod!"®

Thos Fitzpatrick offers some of his own suggestions.

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Two historic South Boston parishes targeted for closure: Is this a case of what's known in House of Cards as "putting a bit of stick about?" Is the chancery sending a message to the local parish councils that they better fish or cut bait on deciding which parishes to close – otherwise the two biggest, best-known and most politically-connected parishes will be the first to go?

Interesting to note that renovation costs are cited. Will traditional dollar-in-the-collection-basket parishioners have to start thinking of doing their own fundraising to keep some of these great but physically ailing churches going? How much of a factor has the Americans with Disabilities Act been in the prohibitive cost of renovating such landmarks?

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Have a problem to be solved? Violence in Ulster? Putting together a bid for the Red Sox? Disney stockholders rebelling? Need a respected world statesman to put a good face on things while lending needed gravitas?

Then Rent-a-George Mitchell is for you. One pictures the former Senate majority leader being wheeled from boardroom to boardroom by dolly.

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Famous politicos tend to keep a low profile in church, but an exception was the late Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who used to usher at Mass.

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Hilaire Belloc said: “If I had known there is no Latin word for tea, I would have left the vulgar stuff alone.

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Postaprint Ltd is not shipping at the moment, but their site has a wealth of Spy prints, woodcuts from the Illustrated London News, and antiquarian images in categories from otters to poets laureate. (Or is that poet laureates?)

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In the name of Pie McKenzie, the newly resurgent Bruins have got to keep wearing the old Home Blacks.