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The Atlantic's Ross Douthat has an excellent piece in The New Republic regarding liberal Catholics' wish for a reformed Church. His point: A more liberal Church would kill the Church, based on all the empirical evidence. It's a stunning article when you figure it'

Tonight at 8:00, Fox will premier its new reality show: Marriage 911. Link. [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/303414p-259572c.html] Excerpt: > Fox's "Marriage 911" gives one squabbling couple, Chris and Laura King, the services of veteran British marriage counselor Jamie Greene for

Hip-Hop performer 50 Cents' manager was robbed at gunpoint last week. The robbery apparently scared the English out of him: “N***as ain't shoot my whip up, they did set me up,” he said. “I'm still in the hood and got a scope on all

The May issue of Reader's Digest discusses the effects of consumerism on today's youth. The gist of the article: Parents give kids everything they want, and the results aren't good. Kids are spoiled, yes, but also (i) they keep wanting more and more, (ii)

The inspirational Charles Gonsoulin of Los Angeles, pursuing a Canadian woman he had met on the Internet, sneaked across the border on foot in February from the North Dakota side (because a 1984 crime would have prevented his legal entry), heading for the bus station in Winnipeg, 75 miles away,

But animals don't have rational souls, so they can't speak, so what are you channeling? And if you're channeling barks and meows, then . . . ah, nevermind. Link. [http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/article.asp?article=49496&paper=62&cat=104] Excerpt: > Barb Mallon,

Interesting article in NYT Magazine this morning. It's an excerpt from Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson. Johnson claims that TV today is making us smarter because its programs make us think. Link. [http:

The BBC broadcasted a Quaker religious service this morning. The BBC broadcasts a different religious meeting every week, so what's the big deal? Quaker services are silent: > A Quaker meeting involves gathering in a room and sitting silently for an hour. There are no hymns, no sermons,

We'll take our friends where we can find them: Atheist and Agnostic Pro-Life League Homepage Link. [http://www.godlessprolifers.org/home.html] Excerpt: > I'm James Matthew (Matt) Wallace, aka The Compleat Heretic. I'm both a Secular Humanist atheist and a pro-life advocate. All

Obsession with longevity plows forward: > An American expert on longevity believes menstruation may play a part in why women are almost six times as likely to live to 100 than men. > In an attempt to test his theory, Thomas Perls, director of the New England Centenarian Study, donates