These ingenious parents handed out treat bags with premptive apologies to fellow passengers when they boarded a flight with 14-day-old twins.
I love it! This WSJ sports reporter called the Washington Redskins the "Baylorskins."
Time magazine discovers Lecrae, the evangelical Christian rapper who has taken over the iTunes hip-hop/rap chart.
Brian Stanley gets it right: Seeking our identity in others' attention is naive and only leads to bitterness. "There must be a Copernican revolution of the self. Instead of pointlessly cursing the sun to go around me, my chance of contentment is learning to orbit, being the world’s audience instead of demanding the world be mine." Excellent article. Progress in life starts here.
Character, even more than IQ, is what leads to real and lasting success. And overcoming adversity is what produces character. This article says children are not being prepared in this area, and thus are not being prepared for success in real adult living.
"I was struck by how aggressive the Democrats were on the subject [of abortion], no longer talking about reducing abortion or making it "rare," but cheering its mention....Whatever your views on abortion, and whether you're Republican or Democrat, cheering is not the right response" (Ed Stetzer).
Trevin Wax explains how Todd Akin should have answered when asked about the legitimacy of aborting a child following rape. Or we could just go with Robert Roy MacGregor's answer in the film Rob Roy. When his wife revealed she was pregnant from rape and that she couldn't bring herself to kill the child, he replied (in my best Scottish brogue), "It's not the child that needs killin'."
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