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• The Associated Press: JK Rowling Bashes ‘Harry Potter Lexicon’
  In papers filed for a lawsuit in Manhattan, J.K. Rowling says she feels betrayed by a fan, Steven Vander Ark, for his role in trying to publish an unauthorized reference work, “Harry Potter Lexicon.”
  (tags: youth culture books)
• Teens – especially girls – drinking alcohol marketed toward them
  Underage drinking overall may be declining slightly. But, what was conveniently omitted was that the only group of youth demonstrating an increase in drinking is underage girls. This includes binge drinking. The actual truth is our daughters, granddaughte
  (tags: youth culture drinking drugs marketing)
• FRONTLINE: growing up online
  Just how radically is the internet transforming the experience of childhood?
  (tags: youth culture internet technology video)

I found this statement by McCain quite funny when I was reading this article this morning:

"I’m a proud, conservative, liberal Republi- Hello! Easy there,"
McCain said, laughing along with his audience at Texas Instruments Inc.

He
corrected himself immediately. "Let me say this: I am a proud,
conservative Republican, and both of my possible or likely opponents
today are liberal Democrats."

• Fathers and Sons – On Francis Schaeffer, Frank Schaeffer, and Crazy for God
  (tags: apologetics)
• CT – Criticism of Willow Creek’s Self-Study
  Our ongoing concern about seeker-sensitive churches is not their willingness to change church culture so that it is not a needless stumbling block to the unchurched. We’re only troubled when such churches uncritically accept the metrics of marketing cultu
  (tags: Church)