Even-Handed

Nice even-handed story in Saturday's Whig about the Presbyterian Church's split from its denomination. Seems like churches always split over whether something is "biblical" ... to people for whom that matters, I highly recommend The Year of Living Biblically, in which author A.J. Jacobs sought to spend a year living out every commandment in the Bible. Not just a few, but all of them. He gets around the stoning commandments with a little finesse. The best part is when her has to follow the commandment that he cannot sit on anything a menstruating female has sat on, and his wife gets pissed at him and sits on every chair in the apartment....so he has to spend a week either standing or sitting on the floor.

There's also a good, even-handed comparison of the U.S. and Canadian health care systems in the Sunday St. Louis paper. It was originally published in the Dallas Morning News.