Cash Movie
Readers of this blog know I'm a Johnny Cash fan, despite his moral
shortfallings. A new movie about Cash is coming out. I'll have to see it, even
though it sounds like the producers will try to justify Johnny's decision to
leave his wife
Eric Scheske
WWJB
> What would Jesus blog? That and other pressing questions drew 135 Christians to
Southern California this weekend for a national conference billed as the
first-ever for "God bloggers," a growing community of online writers who
exchange information and analyze current events from a Christian perspective.
>
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Giving Catholic Educators a Bad Name
> An English teacher has been fired because he did not want to display an American
flag in his Catholic school classroom.
> Stephen Kobasa, a teacher at Kolbe Cathedral High School since 1999, says he is
not unpatriotic but has deep-seated religious beliefs that are incompatible with
displaying
But Rocky Balboa was Catholic
The magazine probably has a point, but it'd come as a shock to generations of
Irish and Italians who used to train in city gyms:
> A leading Catholic magazine has described professional boxing as "a legalised
form of attempted homicide", driven by "cruel"
Emotional Bullying
Stop whining about it. Give your kid a stable and warm family environment that
always accepts him, tell him there are such things as "jerks" and "idiots," and
teach him how to scoff. I would think that would take care of 80% of the
problems, even
What Crank School is This?
A fundamentalist Christian crank or civil libertarian crank? Both tend to be
equally humorless:
> The Washington Post says the [Hylton High School] band had added "The Devil Went
Down to Georgia," by the Charlie Daniels Band to its play list for an upcoming
guest appearance at the
More American Ambition
Top of the Class: How Asian Parents Raise High Achievers - and How You Can Too:
This new book by two successful Korean women tells Americans why Asians are so
successful. Based on this review
[http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/16/fashion/sundaystyles/16TOP.html], it sounds
like the book
Celebrate: The Nightmare is Ending
The nightmare will be replaced with something else, but I'll take my pop culture
condolence wherever I can find it:
> Television industry insiders in America are quietly acknowledging this weekend
that a trend long predicted but never quite proven may at last be coming true:
the appetite
American Girlcott
A boycott looms. American Girl is dismayed that their innocent support of a
pro-abortion/pro-lesbian group could be twisted to serve political purposes. I
know where they're coming from. I was dismayed to see people construe my
contributions to the KKK as some sort of racist