It is now possible — and in many cases usual — to airbrush your child's school photo. Normal awkward things that are a part of growing up can now be eliminated. Is this a sign of vanity and self-absorption or what? Where has innocence gone? What message does this send to our children — that they aren't OK the way they are perhaps?
News Clips: February 2008 Archives
Did you know that St. Patrick's Day falls this year during Holy Week, and that according to liturgical law it cannot be celebrated on the 17th? This is causing a brouhaha of epic proportions all over as bishops plead with cities to move St. Patrick's Day parades and some people refuse to play ball.
Luckily, this won't happen again until 2160. We'll be dead and gone.
That's what one church said to its congregation, not in so many words, urging married couples to know one another daily. Note the name of the church however.
I'm not even going to comment on this one.
You know those impossibly-thin models that have reigned over the fashion world for so many years. Heck, some of them are sickly waifs with exposed ribs, horrible examples of a culture gone wrong. But there is good news: a move to use "real" people is rising up, driven by of all things Internet blogs. And the fashionistas are responding. The Internet is giving them a lot of feedback that they never got before, and this is helping them to realize that people don't want to look at emaciated skeletons. So this is something to be really happy about.
