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• Glenn Reynolds is Looking for Ideas as to How to Change the Culture

  

  This in response to a reader who emailed him the following: You’ve written and linked a bit lately about “changing the culture”. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2013 SOCIETY

• You Have an Action

  

  Yes you, lover of freedom. Frank Weathers is putting out the call: A few minutes ago, a citizen named Nick left a comment with a link to a freshly minted... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Rule of Dumb

  

  Two stories caught my eye this morning, both evidence for increased levels of stupidity. First up, this coming out of Illinois: Belleville police chief Bill Cla... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Searching for a Portal?

  

  It's an interesting thing. The one issue I struggled with the most before coming back to and embracing fully my Catholic roots is now that which draws me back... Read more

  Posted on 04 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Feminists Said to Be Weeping and Gnashing Their Teeth

  

  TIME Magazine is reporting news that will not go over well in many quarters: The mainstream media will get around to covering abortion this month as the nation... Read more

  Posted on 03 January 2013 SOCIETY

• What in Hell Were These Parents Thinking?

  

  You see odd things at times and you shake your head and move on... but this? I guess, if I weren't some old fuddy dud, that I'd see something here that is... Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Pathway to a Death Culture

  

  Is this coming to America? Up to 60,000 patients die on the Liverpool Care Pathway each year without giving their consent, shocking figures revealed yesterday. Read more

  Posted on 02 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Open Disdain for the Constitution from the New York Times

  

  Thinking people can't be surprised by this: AS the nation teeters at the edge of fiscal chaos, observers are reaching the conclusion that the American system... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2013 SOCIETY

• "Befogging the Mind and Deadening the Soul"

  

  Happy New Year to all who come by either regularly or accidently.  I truly appreciate each and every visit and hope sincerely that those visits are fruitful. Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2013 SOCIETY

• Feminists Are Upset with Les Miserables

  

  I've not seen the movie yet and am chagrined to say that I've not read Victor Hugo's novel nor seen the broadway play... but given the accolades I've read... Read more

  Posted on 31 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Societal Decay

  

  The implications here, if you can read long enough to get past the ick factor, are huge... and indicative of how completely screwed up Western culture has... Read more

  Posted on 30 December 2012 SOCIETY

• "Researchers Said There Was No Reason for Long Pointed Knives to Be Publicly...

  

  England is known for its spiraling abandonment of the faith.   Now they're abandoning reason: A team from West Middlesex University Hospital said violent crime... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2012 SOCIETY

• "They Thus Demand That We Lead Others Astray"

  

  Raise your hand if you fully understand why faithful Catholics (readers, please note I italicized, bolded and underscored a word there purposely, willfully and... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2012 SOCIETY

• I Remember Days Like This with My Own Sons

  

  And I sit here and wonder whether they remember it at all themselves.  I hope they do. Sippican Cottagge brings us the following video in a post they so aptly... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 SOCIETY

• Is Les Mis a Religious Movie?

  

  Webster Bull poses, and answers, the question: But what surprised me most of all about Les Miz the Movie was how religious it is—though whether this fact... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2012 ENTERTAINMENT, MOVIES, SOCIETY

• The Homeless Piers Morgan

  

  That might be the man's new moniker after reading these two related pieces. WH petition to deport Piers Morgan tops 80,000... UK PETITION: We don't want him... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 SOCIETY

• "What Could Be So Riveting About an Old Movie...?"

  

  Before heading off to midnight mass on Christmas Eve, the missus and I watched, once again, Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2012 SOCIETY

• "Truth Be Told, It Was the Last Place I Wanted to Be."

  

  Years ago, as an evangelical worshipping in a charismatic Episcopal church, I volunteered to be chairman of the church's outreach committee. Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2012 SOCIETY

• How Do You Gauge the Character of a Man?

  

  Bear with me on this one. We are all flawed individuals.  We're all sinners.  So let's get that part out of the way.  But there should still exist a means by... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2012 SOCIETY

• If This Doesn't Break Your Heart, You Haven't a Heart to Break

  

  From The Telegraph, Dads make the top ten most wanted things for Christmas: When it comes to Christmas, it might be safe to assume children will ask Santa for a... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2012 SOCIETY