The "Links to Your World" feature of this weblog usually appears on Tuesdays. I'm not going to be near an internet connection this week, and Blogger won't let me set entries to post in the future (boo), so you're getting it early.
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It’s amazing what you can find at Lowe’s: Adopted Son Finds Birth Mom at his Workplace.
Is “OMG!” an innocent exclamation, or a violation of the First Commandment?
Why Men Don’t Talk: No, that’s not a set-up for a punch line. It’s actually a good article to help women understand why their men don’t talk.
For Men: five business-based strategies that will improve your marriage.
Release the Hero in Your Husband.
A popular urban legend, with photo: National Geographic Society's discovery of the remains of giant humans in India.
God to Professional Athletes: Stop Pointing At Me.
Be careful, gamers: The line between the online world and meatspace can become awfully thin.
The Mormons’ unresolved race issues.
“If you are looking for racial diversity in pews, you really need to look in conservative churches — both evangelical and Catholic, but especially in those that are called either Pentecostal and/or ‘Bible believing.’” Terry Mattingly, GetReligion.
I never thought of this: “Perhaps one should accept that there is something of an insipid fake in [Bach’s] “Ode to Joy,” so that the chaos that enters after Bar 331 is a kind of the ‘return of the repressed,’ a symptom of what was errant from the beginning. If this is the case, we should thus shift the entire perspective and perceive the marcia as a return to normality that cuts short the display of preposterous portentousness of what precedes it --it is the moment the music brings us back to earth, as if saying: ‘You want to celebrate the brotherhood of men? Here they are, the real humanity...’” (‘Ode to Joy,’ Followed by Chaos and Despair)
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