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Walter White’s many sins
It’s not clear whether Walt will violently lose his life in the Breaking Bad finale. It is bitter irony and justice that he will lose his family.
Is a Mexican drug lord the cause of violence in Chicago?
Bloomberg’s magazine piece on the drug trade in Chicago is insightful and well reported as far as it goes. Here’s how far it goes: it more or less blames the city’s high murder rate on one man, the head of a Mexican cartel.
Friday digest
New today from the Century: LaVonne Neff reviews Sue Halpern, Laura Kelly Fanucci on what happens when the pavement ends, more.
A Dog Walks into a Nursing Home, by Sue Halpern
Pransky, a middle-aged Labradoodle, was bored. So was Sue Halpern, Pransky's owner. Then Halpern learned about Therapy Dogs International.
Shared meal
World Communion Sunday is one of the best ideas Presbyterians ever had. But it doesn't seem to be considered as important as it once was.
Obamacare for real
Obamacare's hard-line opponents aren't worried that the law won't work as planned. They're worried that it will.
Thursday digest
New today from the Century: the editors on budget battles and the Obamacare rollout, John Buchanan on World Communion Sunday, more.
Robert McAfee Brown, selected with an introduction by Paul Crowley
Decades ago when I was a graduate student at Union Seminary in New York City, Robert McAfee Brown was the hot young teacher of theology.
No more villains
My school-aged self was intrigued by the Purple Pie Man. Since then, kids' TV has spun off in two directions: more violence for boys, threatless universes for girls.