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Monthly Archives October 2006

Adventures in social marketing

You might remember a story from a few years ago that involved lots of activist-y types going berserk over an Urban Outfitters shirt that said “Voting is for Old People.” I thought it was funny — and I wanted one of those shirts — but the tut-tutters of the youth-vote movement got UO to stop [...]

Posted 11 October 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

Who’s infallible now?

Good news, heathen babies: God might be changing His mind! For nearly a year the Church’s International Theological Commission has been working on a document expected to recommend he formally abolish limbo, the place where centuries of Catholic tradition held that babies who die without baptism went. The Pope said a mass with members of [...]

Posted 07 October 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

‘Hand’ job in the Times

A good buddy and alert reader (of newspapers, not this website) sent me a maddeningly irrelevant New York Times story on hand-holding and asked if I could spot the evidence of liberal bias. Helpfully, he highlighted this paragraph: Usually it connotes something innocuous and sweet about a couple and their relationship. In rare instances, it [...]

Posted 06 October 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °

Endorsements!

Here’s my last word on the Pirates’ season: yeeesh. As I said two weeks ago, the Pirates had to win three of their last nine games to finish the season with an improved record over last year. On the day I posted that, as you might expect, they lost the second of what would turn [...]

Posted 04 October 2006 by Will § Observations ‡ Comments Off °