OKAY THEN! The online producers at CBS posted a photo slideshow the other day that appeared under the following rather literal headline: Activists Hold Annual March For Life On Roe v. Wade Anniversary So, just thinking out loud, what percentage of the pictures in this gallery would you expect to be of, well, the thousands and thousands of activists who traveled to Washington, D.C., in order to take part in the annual March For Life on the anniversary of Roe... Read more

“GRITTY PHOTOGRAPHS OF ’80S NEW YORK.” #6 is actually lovely. Read more

“FRANCE PLANS ‘NAPOLEONLAND.'” Continuing a theme from the previous link. “Napoleonland”, the brainchild of former French minister and history buff Yves Jégo, is being touted as a rival to Disneyland – assuming, that is, it can gather the £180 million needed to leave the drawing board. … Other curious potential attractions include a ski run through a battlefield “surrounded by the frozen bodies of soldiers and horses” and a recreation of Louis XVI being guillotined during the revolution – the... Read more

“SWITZERLAND’S ‘DEMENTIAVILLE’ DESIGNED TO MIRROR THE PAST.“ Via Ratty. Read more

Service to the neighbor may also take on a shape very hard to fit into the limits and constraints of society–a love akin to what Daniel Day Williams has called Franciscan love or what Gene Outka has described in discussing love as self-sacrifice. Such a love, because it seeks its own no more than Christ did, breaks through all the normal forms of life in society. Free of all claims to power, privilege, and possession–free even of all desires except... Read more

“TO THE MOTHER WITH ONLY ONE CHILD.” Beautiful, and fairly raw: Dear Mother of Only One Child, Don’t say it. Before the words can even pass your lips, let me beg you: don’t say, “Wow, you have nine kids? I thought it was hard with just my one!” My dear, it is hard. You’re not being a wuss or a whiner when you feel like your life is hard. I know, because I remember having “only one child.” You may... Read more

DEVELOPING CONFLICTS: Some quick thoughts about Time Stands Still, at the Studio Theater through 2/12. The play is about a war photographer and her reporter boyfriend; when she’s almost killed on the job, they retreat to their Brooklyn apartment and try to figure out how to move forward with their lives. There are only two supporting characters, Richard the somewhat plastic editor and his new fiancee Mandy the cliched, saccharine Americaness. (After one scene with Mandy I found myself thinking,... Read more

ABSINTHE MAKES THE HEART GROW FONDER: The second video here is very, very fun. For TKB on the slight chance she hasn’t seen it already. Read more

THE BEST FAKE FOREIGN-POLICY TWITTER FEEDS. Via DrunkenPredator, who gets a spot on the list! Read more

JUST A BEACH AND A PRETTY GIRL: Photos of NYC teen life in the late ’70s and ’80s. Read more