Rush Limbaugh died last week. In a way. The Rush I knew?my principled companion for three hours a day?is in some very serious legal trouble, under investigation for illegally purchasing painkillers. I never expected perfection from Rush? ...

As many of us had hoped, director Peter Jackson and his commendable crew offer moments of great terror in Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King . Fantasy finds ...

"In the year 2000," writes Tom Wolfe , novelist and Grand Poobah of non-fiction, "in the era of hooking up, ?first base' meant deep kissing (tonsil hockey), groping, and fondling; ?second ...

Getting a Life: How to Find Your True Vocation by Renée LaReau, Orbis (2003), 158 pages. It seems to me life improves drastically after you hit 30....

Raising kids today is more challenging than it has ever been. Kids today just aren't as young as they used to be. I don't have any scientific research to back this up, but I do ...

Entire wars have been fought over it, British lords beheaded, Spanish mystics incarcerated, principalities set on fire, and now it travels the internet in search of friendships to destroy. It is religion. And ...

Art has the power to transform us into something better, something greater, so long as we don't merely place it on a pedestal. On my recent trip to Nicaragua, several images revealed the ...

It started with a simple physical. The doctor was almost done when, feeling my neck, she exclaimed, "Hello, what's this?" This turned out to be a lump , the size of a ...

You have heard this story: it's about a good man, a complex man who had the world at his feet, then watched it drop away; who gave generously, lived loudly, and ...

Though more than 90% of us in the U.S. say we believe in Him, God may seem no more real to many of us than, say, Arnold Schwarzeneggar?sure, we've seen Him in the movies (Morgan ...

Darn those yearbook photos?they always come back to haunt us and remind the world that yes, we once thought puka shell necklaces were the epitome of fashion. But a study at U.C. Berkeley found that yearbook ...

Guilt and shame are two Irish-Catholic traits that are as typical as corned beef and cabbage on St Patrick's Day to Irish-Americans. It's one thing to be Catholic, but to be an ...

Sammy Sosa's seven-game suspension for bat corking ended last week, amidst much snickering and two very respectable singles. He refers to the incident in which his bat shattered, revealing a chunk of cheating squirreled into the ...

I went to Saved , a new comedy about teenagers in a Christian high school expecting to get a few laughs at the expense of bible-based yokels. ...

With this film, it's tempting, oh-so-tempting, to make the expected references to classic rock songs: "The Kids Are Alright." "Teenage Wasteland." "Another Brick in the Wall." But that's not the world that spawned the kids of ...

There is no question that the American entertainment industry has quite an influence on the American public. People interviewed by Jay Leno during his Jay Walking skit are perfect examples of how ...

Lest we forget? When the Cincinnati Bengals were in the 1988 Super Bowl (yes, really), a local radio station cobbled together rousing stadium anthems with such audio gems as "The Who-Dey Rap," and the mix was ...

It's the early 1980's. Philip Seymour Hoffman is Dan Mahowny, a Toronto bank manager whose body is as soft and slow as his mind is sharp and quick. Mahowny moves ...

I was talking with my wife recently about how someone we know shelters her children. She protects her children from the daily tragedies that she encounters and controversy never enters her ...

According to baseball superstition, the Chicago Cubs and the Boston Red Sox are cursed. The Red Sox curse came in 1920, courtesy of Babe Ruth, the Bambino himself, ...