LOL Interwebz: To Grandmaster’s House We Go
The Internet has restored pop music to a place where it can bring generations together instead of driving them apart, even if your grandma still hasn’t heard of the rap DJ who’s almost as old as she is.

The Internet has restored pop music to a place where it can bring generations together instead of driving them apart, even if your grandma still hasn’t heard of the rap DJ who’s almost as old as she is.

The fact that we can identify a gap at all—and our instinct to fill it—is evidence that we live in an organized universe that we’re designed to understand.

“What if one of my friends checks my wall and sees I didn’t post something about the dead celebrity?”

Homestar cartoons are basically secular, but that doesn’t stop them from being life-affirming and beautiful (and funny, obviously).

On the Web, we can all take as much time as we want to think through our responses and convince ourselves we’re in the right—we can even build up an army of fans to insulate us from any and all criticism.

There’s no shortcut to a good reputation.

Those of us at CaPC feel that Christian Mingle is a great idea and think every Christian website should get its own movie. Here are a few suggestions.

TGI Friday’s Endless Appetizers remind us why fasting is an almost universal discipline across religions.

Your body has been washed in the waters of baptism and made Beautiful for all time.

Yeah, sure, Facebook is evil—but only because we’re all evil in the exact same way: we all seek to control the ones around us.

If Internet anonymity has proven one thing, it’s that we’re all more than willing to be absolutely horrible people if we’re fairly certain there won’t be any consequences.

Here are six things I’m sick of hearing you say you’re sick of seeing people post on social media.

What seems snarky and anarchic on a computer screen is cast as annoying and mean when bathed in the harsh light of auditory TV and placed in the mouth of a middle-aged guy in a suit.

If Rome and Constantinople can reconcile their differences, it will be an incredible witness to the world and a huge step toward a reunited Church.

The mind-numbing dullness of Elliot Rodger’s videos is a reminder that evil is indeed a mundane thing, a relatively uninteresting disposition pushed a bit too far in the wrong direction.

That we are not deliberately contributing to the evil in the world is hardly an accomplishment; perhaps we should ask ourselves what we can do to lessen it.
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