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Multi-Tasking and Interrupting A reader of Eric Scheske's Wednesday column at Catholic Exchange [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=28068] writes, “I know a lot of people who multi-task, and can agree with you that its effects are insidious. It'

In the Spirit of Aldous Huxley? Kazuo Ishiguro has written a new novel: Never Let Me Go. Slate provides a compelling review of this eerie and chilly novel about cloned children. Based on the review, let's hope this novel resonates as loudly with us as Upton Sinclair'

A Clothesline Tackle We enjoy the mini-essay about little things. Belloc was good at it (there's a passage in The Path to Rome about windows that we've been meaning to post during one of the slow weekends). Jeff Cumbert at Hallowed Ground [http://hallowedground.blog-city.com/

Carlyle's Cash Nexus Strikes Again! A father is selling videotapes of his serial killer son's confession. LINK [http://rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3675980,00.html] . Who cares about making money off what should be great shame (the contestants on Fear Factor

Vicuna In yesterday's Weekly Features Post, there is a reference to vicuna. In our ignorance, we didn't know what it was. It's a very soft fabric made from, shocker shocker, vicuna. A reader sends along this picture, in case anyone else is curious:

Lawrence is Fuming Kansas yesterday approved a constitutional amendment that bans homosexual marriage. LINK [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152572,00.html]. That means eighteen states are rife with hatred and bigotry. Sixteen more states are supposedly lining up to declare themselves narrow-minded. What's going on?

Weekly Features Post Issue XVIII What a difference a week makes. Last week, we wrote/slashed together the Weekly Features Post with a tall cold one at our elbow. This week? Tuesday a.m., cold sober. The beer went with the mother-in-law. And with the wife. Her passion is swimming

Bullies are Couch Potatoes There's more evidence that TV leads to aggressive behavior. LINK [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,152430,00.html]. Excerpt: According to researchers, "We have added bullying to the list of potential negative consequences of excessive television viewing along with obesity, inattention,

Getting Rid of Religion, Again A young man named Sam Harris has written a scathing book against religion: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason. Based on this dissecting review [http://www.christianitytoday.com/books/features/bookwk/050404.html] in Christianity Today, the book is well