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Diapered Consumerism "Americans spend $6 billion a year on things for their infants. . . One-quarter of the 4 million babies born each year will be registered at Babies R Us. 'Before you can register at Babies R Us,' wrote Caitlin Flanagan in The New Yorker, 'you must

Some Fundamentals about Pride Something for Sunday morning. Every person is born with pride. It is ingrained in the soul due to original sin. It was Adam's sin. C.S. Lewis described it as the “Great Sin” and said “the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. . . Pride

The King and the Dendrites The weekend is a good time to take care of housekeeping matters. 1. We received e-mail about the King Canute legend (see Issue XIII of TWE, posted March 1st). Yup, we're aware it didn't really happen that way. To quote Brewer&

The Weekend Eudemon So That's the Relevance of Hip Hop! "I think that the whole future of my race hinges on the question as to whether or not it can make itself of such indispensable value that the people in the town and the state where we

K-8 or Sex Bait There's strong evidence that the entire middle school experiment (which started in the 1950s) has been a total bust. K-8 schools are springing up all over the place in the public school sector, including in Cleveland, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Oklahoma City. The following

Desperate Housewife Territory We've always been interested in urban sprawl, the emptiness of suburban life, and the potential for downtown urban revival. According to this article [http://www.architecturemag.com/architecture/reports_analysis/design_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000780668] from Architecture Magazine, there is no downtown urban

Norm! Friday calls for beer news. This is one of the better stories we could find. “Tom Ciccateri proved that the fourth time may be the charm when he was chosen Beerdrinker of the Year during finals competition in Denver. Ciccateri, who had made the finals three other times, will

First SI, Now the NFL? "Bowing to pressure from gay-rights advocates, the NFL Shop will now allow buyers of personalized jerseys to have the word "GAY" sewn onto the back of their shirt. A homosexual-news syndicate reported today that the league claimed it wasn't caving

Nasty 'Bout Christians A recent study says that NBC is by far the worst network when it comes to treating religion negatively. From September 2003 to September 2004, it had 9.5 negative treatments of religion for every positive one. Of the other networks monitored (ABC, CBS, Fox, PAX,

Eternal Drinking Yesterday, we referred readers to a blog known as The Inn at the End of the World. We're guessing that the blog takes its name from from the ending of G.K. Chesterton's 1906 study, Charles Dickens. Regardless, we find GKC's final