Lex Communis

 The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Come for the serial killer; stay for the fair.
I will be absolutely honest and admit that I purchased the book because I was interested in the weird story of H.H.Holmes, American con-man, psychopath and serial killer. In fact, I will add to my confession, and shame, by saying that my interest was...

Roll left and crash...
...in this case, it is free speech itself.
//Walmart is pulling Cosmopolitan Magazine from its checkout lines. The magazine that made its name with provocative covers will no longer be found in Walmart on sale at the checkout lines, a move that the company is calling a "business decision" but...

Could Homo Erectus speak?
I just picked up Daniel Everett's book, "How Language Began", which argues that language goes back hundreds of thousands of years.
On the other hand, there is another school of thought that says language and a fully functioning, self-aware mind was something that developed in the last 40,000 years, maybe the last 10,000....

Tough break for the "Spiritual but not Religious" community...
The CDF weighs in on the "neo-Gnostic" and "neo-Pelagian" strain in modern culture:
//12. The place where we receive the salvation brought by Jesus is the Church, the community of those who have been incorporated into this new kind of relationship begun by Christ (cf. Rom 8:9). Understanding this salvific mediation of the Church is...