SODOM & GOMORRAH: Margaret Thatcher, the only female Prime Minister to have held office in Great Britain, passed away earlier this week. To mark the solemn event, more than 700 members of Britain's armed forces will play a role in the ceremonies. David Cameron, the current head of the Conservative Party and the Prime Minister confirmed that Margaret Thatcher's funeral will … [Read more...]
Elf Boulder to be Moved
SODOM & GOMORRAH: Sometimes I wish other countries’ politics were this exciting. Also, sometimes I wish reality didn’t mirror The Onion. Árni Johnsen, an MP for Iceland’s Independence Party, has made arrangements to relocate a giant boulder to his home Höfðaból in the Westman Islands. Johnsen believes that the boulder is home to three families of elves, which he first … [Read more...]
More Children Born Outside of Marriage
SODOM & GOMORRAH: We have likely reached the point of no return for the American family. More women under 30 are giving birth to children outside of marriage than not. The New York Times touts it as the "new normal." For the first time, more than half of the women in the United States under 30 are having children born outside of marriage. Child Trends, a Washington-based … [Read more...]
Apple-pie and Ink
This is a guest post from Homestead: Theatre of Words. Imagination is a profound skill, but its use is simple. We have it from our infancy and train ourselves in it through play and pretense and nursery rhymes. Nursery rhymes touch us the most deeply when they are fanciful and yet feel true. Here is one that is both: If all the world was apple-pie, And all the sea was … [Read more...]
Lithoko
This is a guest post by Homestead: Theatre of Words. In the early years of the 20thC, two French missionaries published this account of a performance they witnessed in the mountain kingdom of Lesotho, isolated in the heart of South Africa: In a large gathering, sitting round waiting to hear a royal message, a man seems suddenly seized by an irresistible devil. He leaps … [Read more...]