Current Affairs

I didn't sleep well last night, so I woke up in a bad mood. I read a news story about Planned Parenthood's promotion of pornography [http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=11904] to teenagers, and figured, "I'm in a bad mood already,

For extra credit, who can name for me Cheech and Chong's seven movies [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheech_and_Chong#Filmography]? > Oaksterdam University prepares people for jobs in California's thriving medical marijuana industry. For $200 and the cost of two required textbooks, students learn

Croup girl (Tess, 2), flu girl (Abbie, 13), and Bad-Dream Girl (Meg, 6). The nights have been longish . . . for my wife. I've been sleeping fairly well. __________ And it's just a coincidence that this attitude shift comes on the heels of the rebate announcement: Growing confidence

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

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

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

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