Our family subscribes to The Week magazine. It basically distills news from publications around the world, so you can see the various sides of each story. Everyone but the girl enjoys it—even the seven-year-old boy reads the political cartoons and scans the news items.
They have some great columns that express the ridiculousness of the world and I love its “Good week for/Bad week for” column. Unfortunately they don’t have these online. So I want to point out a particularly great one this week. This (reputable) news magazine wrote in the issue we received on Friday, May 19:
“Good week for…
The human race, after the world did not end on May 21, as Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping had predicted. [Editor’s note: We filed this item several days early, but will print a correction if it’s wrong.]”
We’ll be renewing.
I also enjoy The Week, usually when purloined from a waiting room.