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Julie at Happy Catholic shares some reading she has done about Genesis. And it is interesting reading. Check it out. Christina Hoff Summers asks: Are we are living in a moral stone age? This goes some way towards explaining the low level hostility towards Universities (and educators in general) that seeps out of my keyboard from time to time. In a similar vein, Dennis Prager has some advice for the Democrats. Living Catholicism has The Third Catholic Carnival. I have not had a chance to read it yet, but I'm sure there's good stuff to be had. Now that our merchants have taken down the Halloween stuff, skipped remembrance day altogether and set about sucking the life out of Christmas again, here are some ideas on how to keep the holidays holy, inexpensive, and fun. Also from Living Catholicism. Dawn Eden has been taking a blow torch to Planned Parenthood's website for children, teens and animals (yes). You won't believe it. Sounds like Firefox 1.0 has now been released. I will want to check this out! I have been using and loving the beta for a few months now.

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