M.J. Rose reports today that iUniverse is contracting. Layoffs announced as the print-on-demand outfit drops its corporate services. Now iUniverse publishes only individual authors. This is not surprising as more and more small publishers get into POD and as the technology for adopting it, even for small businesses, is not that expensive. Businesses are opting… Continue reading
Ever go to the movies and have to sit through two hours of a jerk in the row behind you giving hushed commentary on the background of the movie you’re trying to enjoy? That’s what AMC’s new vaunted More Movie feature is like. Last night I tried to watch Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.… Continue reading
If you like Gin & Tonics (with lime) check out this nice little article from the London Telegraph: By way of a book review, you get a little history about where one of summer’s best drinks came from.
More excellent reporting from NRO’s Rod Dreher in Dallas today: The liberal Appleby made an excellent point in his address to the bishops, saying that the crisis began, in a sense, with the 1968 papal encyclical Humanae Vitae, which forbade artificial birth control for Catholics. A large majority of American Catholics rejected the ruling, and… Continue reading
Read National Review’s Rod Dreher, who is in Dallas today and tomorrow to “cover” the bishops. Here’s Dreher on two active abuse victims who want the church leaders to do more than shuffle papers: The two men characterized the meeting as one in which the bishops wanted to talk about abusive priests, but the victims… Continue reading