Starting today, a web-based video series entitled “Bump” will begin, featuring three fictional women who are trying to decide whether or not to get an abortion. Viewers will then VOTE, American-Idol style, to determine whether the women will abort their child. I want to stress
Taylor Swift took most of the country music Grammies. I can see that. The child sounds more country than many of her elders in the industry, and she has crossover appeal to boot. Someone else can comment on the rest of the winners, most
Remember jokes? Brief little stories with a funny ending? It seems to me that people don’t tell jokes any more like they used to. Instead they make snide remarks. Even comedians don’t tell jokes much today. Instead they make wry observations and tell about their
Concordia Publishing House is putting out an edition of Luther’s Small Catechism in comic book–I mean graphic novel form. I think it works! Don’t you? Buy it here.
J. D. Salinger is dead at 91. After achieving spectacular success with Catcher in the Rye and a handful of other brief novels and short stories in the 1950s, Salinger renounced his celebrity and became a recluse for the rest of his life. And yet, word
Fareed Zakaria suggests that President Obama’s problem is that he has been acting like a Prime Minister–the head of his party in a parliamentary system–rather than a President, the head of state: Over the past six months — which have correlated with his dramatic drop
Sally Jenkins gets inside the head of a place kicker–his premonitions, his inner voice, his getting iced, and the winning kick that takes his team to the Super Bowl. It was 2:15 a.m. and [Garrett] Hartley couldn’t sleep, because the Inner Voice kept shrieking at
This has always been a week-day blog, but Stewart, who has been redesigning the site, tells me that the days of the week with the biggest blog readership, for some reason, are Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. He says I really need to post something on
The U.S. Postal Service wants to put out a stamp commemorating Mother Teresa, who was made an honorary U.S. citizen by President Clinton, honoring her Nobel Peace Prize and her work with the world’s poor and dying. The Freedom from Religion Foundation, an atheist organization,
I missed the State of the Union address last night. Listening to it every year is a ritual I try to subject myself to. Somebody please report. Did it contain any eloquence, any electric phrases that will go down in history? Any surprising new policies?
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