Current Affairs

The illness lingers, but I think it's mostly over. I'm actually going to try to exercise today. Nothing too rigorous. Maybe three miles on the stationary bike, or maybe some light weightlifting, or maybe just a couple of groans thinking about it. We'll see.

"One of the Benefits of Marriage is Divorce [http://timothyjones.typepad.com/old_world_swine/2008/01/one-of-the-bene.html]." That's the theme of this WaPo article [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22467049/] about the problems of getting divorced if you're gay. The article

Mass killers are atheists? That's what this popular and insightful blogger has observed [http://voxday.blogspot.com/2007/12/atheist-killers.html]: > Large-scale murder or small-scale slaughter, it's simply amazing how often these killers turn out to be explicit atheists, especially given the fact that they

The December issue of The Atlantic Monthly has a feature piece about The Golden Compass [http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200712/religious-movies]. Summary: Pullman's books are rabidly anti-Christian (the dark and murderous institution that pursues the protagonist is "the Magisterium"--subtle stuff), but Hollywood bent

I stumbled across all sorts of interesting things this weekend: A cool Wikipedia entry on fictional portrayals of psychopaths in literature [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictional_portrayals_of_psychopaths_in_literature#Dostoyevsky.27s_Crime_and_Punishment_and_The_Possessed] ; The Crux Project's Denyse O'Leary'

Yeah, I know I'm not blogging on Saturday mornings anymore, but I ran across four (at least mildly) interesting things yesterday: Paul Johnson offers his list of England's Top Ten Cathedrals [http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0321.htm]. __________ The controversial Jason Whitlock offers his spin

A long-time friend moved to South Carolina. He's a mortician. He got the call to pick up one of the firefighters killed in the tragedy earlier this week. This is his email: > I went to the Medical University today to pick up our guy. It was unreal.

I haven't weighed in on the Imus conflagration, but a reader has sent to me the best piece of commentary I've seen so far [http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html]. Excerpt: > While we're fixated on a bad joke cracked by an

Sad stuff [http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070330/wl_csm/odanube]: > When Johann Strauss gazed upon Europe's grandest waterway 140 years ago, it inspired him to compose the Blue Danube Waltz, went on to become an unofficial anthem of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. > Today, the river