Some boys blog and some boys watch,
And that’s all right with me.

If they can’t raise my interest then I’ll have to let them be…

Home, Throne, Altar: Three kids & the making of a conservative. Powerful and right-on. A lot of this resonates with my experience at the pregnancy center. The only thing I’d add would be stories of parents trying hard to do right by their kids in the teeth of a culture that constantly rejects and thwarts them. …HTA link via Hugo Schwyzer, who comments here. (For my part, I think fighting materialism with socialism is like fighting a wood fire with an electrical fire.)

Relapsed Catholic: Thousands pray for Hollywood. Seriously? Can any of you all pray also for journalists? I for one could use the help.

SoDakMonk: He’s moved. For all your South Dakotan monastic needs, go here.

I am usually not so thrilled by Cathy Seipp–her “on the one hand, but on the other hand” shtik wears thin–but this rambly column on women journalists makes several good points. Excerpts:

…Many of my readers are the sort of old-fashioned, hard-headed guys feminists assume are in need of enlightenment (military men, cops, prosecutors, engineers, etc.), and I get all sorts of reactions from them, but one that I’ve never encountered is any whiff of that patronizing, “Now-see-here-little-lady…” attitude. …

In any case, I think what’s really missing from the op-ed pages is not more women writers but more real diversity among those writers. I can’t think of any major female columnist who brings the perspective of raising children without the safety net of a full-time staff job and/or a comfortably employed husband — in other words, someone with firsthand knowledge of life beyond the small, privileged circles of the media elite.

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