TWE

In the upcoming issue of Touchstone, R. Albert Mohler, Jr. writes about childless couples. He first lays out examples of the shallow worldview of the people who choose not to have children, and then he hammers them. Worth reading. Though, quite frankly, I suspect we're lucky these vapid

Guaranteed to be brilliant: > The English edition of Pope Benedict's Italian bestseller Without Roots: Europe, Relativism, Christianity, Islam will be published by Basic Books in February. The book grew out of a speech that Cardinal Ratzinger gave to the Italian Senate before becoming Pope. George Weigel will

How do we account for this? Better giving campaigns by the charities? Generosity triggered by tax breaks? Generosity triggered by the paradox that people give more when things are going bad? > Americans gave more money to charity in 2004 than the year before, and it looks as if that

> A boozed-up mother of three, furious that she wasn't getting drinks fast enough while partying at a posh Midtown hotel, viciously stabbed a security guard there yesterday, cops and witnesses said. I wonder what her husband thinks of this. Oh wait, it would appear she's

> Cops armed with new DNA evidence believe that they will finally nail a man who brutally raped and killed a pretty Fordham University grad and aspiring nun 28 years ago. > But for the devastated family of Roberta "Robin" Elam – a 26-year-old attacked and strangled as she

I thought astronauts had to wear diapers. Isn't that enough of a deterrent? > Sex and romantic entanglements among astronauts could derail missions to Mars and should therefore be studied by NASA, warns a top-level panel of US researchers. Is this a gay thing, or are we sending

Too many put too much stock in their kid's name. Johnny Cash knew a boy named Sue, and that kid did just fine. > Swedish search engine expert Dr Walid Elias Kai and his wife Carol have decided to name their new born boy Google. > Dr Kai,

A rather slow Friday evening. I was pelted with a lot of work on Wednesday. I was still trying to dig out late Friday afternoon, so I worked “late” (6:00, which is late for me, since I get to the office at 7:30 and work through lunch). Fortunately,

People are fighting over whether one type of passionate conduct constitutes "sex." Many say it isn't. Only in an over-sexed society would an outlandish argument like this would get a hearing. Link [http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2005-10-19-teens-technical-virginity_x.htm] .

A great piece of American Spectator about exorcism, Emilie Rose, and secular scoffing. Link [http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=8898]Excerpts: > Writing in Newsweek International, Barbie Nadeau scoffs at the Vatican's preservation of its exorcism rite. But judging by the rise of demonic