Confessions of a Liberal Puritan

For those whose major home-maintenance and auto-repair tools are a Swiss Army Knife (left-handed, in my case) and a roll of traditional silver-gray duct tape (colored duct tape might constitute a minor heresy -- I haven't heard the final word on that, yet), and who consider MacGyver to be their patron saint (the saint of narrow escapes and making mile-high lemon meringue pie when life sticks you with a pile of lemons), a major holiday is fast approaching.

September 29, 2005 will be the 20th anniversary of the airing of the pilot episode of the 1985-1992 television show MacGyver, so I propose that it be properly celebrated as the Feast Day of Saint MacGyver. Let it be a day for celebrating the off-beat, nonconformist, tree-hugging, intellectual master of improvisation within each one of us. Anyone else interested?

And on a different-but-related topic . . . ( review of 'Saint Vidicon to the Rescue' by Christopher Stasheff )