nbsp Hidden within a parenthesis deep in Matt Bai s profile of Newt Gingrich in last week s New York Times Magazine was the following bit of news A Baptist since graduate school Gingrich said he will soon convert to Catholicism his wife rsquo s faith Read it here nbsp

May we hope that all faiths can forever put behind them the use of censorship or violence against writers in the defense of religion.

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This essay from the Chronicle of Higher Education by Mark Bauerlein is more evidence for what I already suspected reading on a computer screen makes me stupid nbsp Or more exactly trying to read dense extended arguments on a computer screen results in an entirely different kind of comprehensio

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In California, earthquakes are a subject of humor and nostalgia as much as terror