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FULL SPECTRUM CULTURE
Market Invading Family —
Examples of the Market usurping the rightful authority of the Family
Category Archives: Market Invading Family
Proverbs 27:13 (ESV)
Take a man’s garment when he has put up security for a stranger, and hold it in pledge when he puts up security for an adulteress.
Please Don’t Marry Our Daughters
— Brad Stone, Bits: a New York Times Blog
The website covered by this article is thankfully a prank. Yikes.
Q&A with Maggie Gallagher — Dr. Paul Kengor
Grove City College Vision & Values
“Every developed country is experiencing a family crisis,” notes Maggie Gallagher. “We have a very serious problem here in America, but it’s not quite the same problem as in Europe.”
Affordable homes: Habitat for hustlers
Business Week on MSN Real Estate
Freewheeling brokers and lenders are preying on the owners of Habitat for Humanity houses, bombarding them with offers to refinance out of their original interest-free loans.
In which I am forced to use the term “whore bag” in front of my 12 year old daughter – Busy Mom
“…Is it just me or is this Halloween costume thing getting out of hand, or what? I know there’s not a shortage of sites lamenting the skinification of Halloween costumes, but, it’s become something I have to deal with…”
I’m Jealous Of His Joystick – Kate, I Think Therefore I Blog
See Also: US internet addicts ‘as ill as alcoholics’ – NewScientist The View from the TopA friend of RobustYoungSoul, Soul Kerfuffle
Careers and Marriage – Forbes.com
Forbes.com published a story Aug. 22 by editor Michael Noer on two-career relationships that provoked a heated response from both outside and inside our building. Elizabeth Corcoran, a member of our Silicon Valley bureau and principal author of the magazine’s current cover story on robots, sent in [a] rebuttal.
Western values ‘are causing mental illness’ [in Japan]
Leo Lewis, London Times
I don’t think it’s so much “Western values” that are hurting the Japanese, unless they’re talking about what I call the “Market partisanship” (i.e., a willingness to believe that the Realm of the Market can do no wrong) that can sometimes run amok in Western culture. But “Western values” have also traditionally included strong family [...]
Born at 6am on 06/06/06, his Mum was induced for 6 Days, he weighs 6lbs 6oz and He’s Called… Damien – Richard Smith, the Mirror
This is both silly and foolish. This poor kid is sure in for some teasing (assuming, of course, that he isn’t the Antichrist . ) (HT: Drudge Report) [How does Drudge find these things?]
