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Get Religion has two great posts today: Sin and Shame in Amish Country [http://www.getreligion.org/?p=1745]. (Hey, I live in Amish country! I guess I better be careful where I walk.) Modernity's Complexity and Politics [http://www.getreligion.org/?p=1746]. Excerpt: > We are

America has a new subculture: Juggalos. They're violent young men who listen to the music of Insane Clown Posse [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003121207_insaneclowns12m.html] , which plays a combination of rap and heavy metal. Columbining rap and heavy metal is combining the trash of two

I don't like Gorbachev, but these words ring true: > The former general secretary of the Soviet Union Communist Party accused Americans of arrogance and trying to impose their way of life on other nations. > "Americans have a severe disease – worse than AIDS. It's

The Lord of the Rings stage production is Toronto is throwing in its coat of mail [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/Page/document/v4/sub/MarketingPage?user_URL=http://www.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FLAC.20060629.LORD29%2FTPStory%2FTPEntertainment%2FTheatre%2F&ord=1152786830452&brand=theglobeandmail&force_login=

This last week "was the least-watched week in recorded history for the four biggest broadcast networks." Link [http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060711/ap/d8iq1l8g0.html]. Unfortunately, analysts think it's because the Fourth-of-July week is always weak, and the programming was worse than usual. In other

Check out this unfortunate occurrence in the blogosphere [http://marchtogether.blogspot.com/2006/07/satire.html]. A pro-life blogger falls for an Onion satire piece about abortion, gets vilified, then apparently still doesn't fully understand. Check out the comments section. It is filled with the nastiest, meanest diatribes

There is a quiet but determined effort in the United States to relaunch the world's premier women's professional soccer league. [http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,201438,00.html] Female sports and soccer. That's like combining the Detroit Lions with the Arizona Cardinals.

Today's one of my favorite commemorations: St. Benedict (the First, of Nursia). Why is Benedict important? Lots of reasons, most of which are summed up in this excerpt from an essay I wrote earlier: > When, after 312 and Constantine's conversion, society became comfortable for Christians

"I'd like two bags of organic cucumbers, a bottle of this lovely blush, some tofu, an all-liver pacifier for little Winchester here, and that skank in the corner for my husband." Residents in an up-and-coming Manhattan neighborhood don't like the return of the hookers.