Last week, this graph accompanied a Wall Street Journal story on "The Unemployable Man," which delivered the "arresting" news that one in five men aged 25 to 54 are currently unemployed. "Women have suffered less in this recession," WSJ says. "They were more likely to be in health care and other jobs that weren't hit as hard [...]

Meet the hottest new women's fiction subgenre: the Amish romance novel. Seeing as "the church has traditionally viewed fiction as distracting and deceitful," the Wall Street Journal reports, Amish romances are largely written by non-Amish women, for non-Amish women. These so-called "bonnet books," essentially, are romance novels for modern women who want to live vicariously [...]

So, George F. Will wrote 700 words in the Washington Post yesterday on why he hates jeans. The column, "America's Bad Jeans," was largely inspired by last month's Wall Street Journal piece by Daniel Akst on why he hates jeans. Apparently, Will felt that just one rich white guy opining on his distaste for plebeian [...]

Today's Wall Street Journal piece on the "Abortion Foes' Dilemma" suggests one new obstacle facing pro-life advocates: The cause has been replaced by the en vogue anti-gay movement. Some social conservatives, Stephanie Simon writes, "fear their cause has lost its urgency as a defining issue for many voters of faith, replaced by opposition to gay [...]