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- 1 - No clever theme this time, as I'm using the quick takes for exactly the purpose it's creator intended it for: It's been...

Last weekend's Wall Street Journal had another of its book-excerpt-as-human-interest-article pieces. Past installments have managed to ...

This is just amazing. I'd rate the most dead on as George W. Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Woody Allen and George Clooney as some of the...

Kyle has a pair of posts on a California bill mandating that students in the state learn that gay, lesbian, and transgendered people exist...

Book nostalgia seems to be the theme for the week, so here's your chance to get in. I think the focus will be on children's books th...

Do you know, after six years of being on Blogger, I've only just now realized that there's a spam filter for comments? Yes, there is...

For Enbrethiliel and Brandon and anyone who's been following the discussion on Darwin's post But That's A Girl's Book! , I p...

Sometime in my pre-adolescent years, my family came into an encyclopedia. I expect it was donated to us because it was hopelessly dated by t...

Paul Krugman recently did a Five Books interview with The Browser, talking about his five favorite books . The books are: Asimov's Foun...

While on a family trip a couple months ago, we picked up an audio book of Little Town on the Prairie to keep the back seat peaceful. We...

As Blackadder explains at more length , Unequally Yoked is running a Turing Test to see how well atheists and Christians understand one anot...

1. Periodically, however, someone will suggest that the Church’s teaching on usury needs to be revitalized. Recently following a link from...

Fresh from her Salzburg studies, my operatic sister Anna Egan expresses her gratitude to all the benevolent DarwinCatholic readers who su...

An acquaintance linked to this article about outsourced call centers in India , and since that's a topic I know a certain amount about f...

Two striking images. And the explanation .

A week or two before MrsDarwin and I got married, my father presented me with a set of four volumes wrapped (in a manner that was quite cha...

I want to extend sincere and grateful thanks to all who offered anniversary congratulations. Darwin and I have not turned out to be members ...